I'm at the launderette.

[tattooed_mummy@beige.party]

I'm at the launderette. It's really busy. A dryer finished so someone emptied it to use the dryer, the person who owns the clothes isn't here though. 3 ladies are chatting and folding the clothes. No one knows each other. It's all rather lovely.

Who knew that sitting in the launderette showed you a sweet side of life.

Also there's a man here unsure how to do the wash, he asked me for help, and promised he wasn't a weirdo. He's not a weirdo and now lots of the women are helping him too.

#niceThings #life #goodPeople

[maker_of_things@cupoftea.social]

@Tattooed_Mummy
My boss, the Head of Housing of a council, many years ago, related to me the time she was in a launderette while on holiday.
A man asked her for help with the laundry as 'Women understand these things better and being a man, he didn't.'.
She told him that it wasn't because he was a man, it was because he was an idiot.

[tattooed_mummy@beige.party]

@Maker_of_Things tbf since ours went card only it's pretty complicated. I needed help first time I used it

[maker_of_things@cupoftea.social]

@Tattooed_Mummy
I can appreciate that.

I think in this case, it was a long while ago, and the man was asking about how to 'actually do' laundry.
Which would have been fine if he just said he'd never done it before. But that is simple ignorance that anyone would have for their first time.

My boss didn't suffer fools. That she liked me, and we got on really well, was very reassuring.