The price you pay for clean underwear

Apartment living can be inconvenient. Especially when your $1 per load washing machine stops working.

I loaded all of my socks, underwear, and t-shirts into the machine and added all the soap and whatnot before realizing that the machine wouldn't start (which I didn't know until I put a dollar in and nothing happened. And then I put another dollar in. And nothing happened).

So then I went down the floor below me and began to put my laundry in that machine. Except it was half full of dirty water from the last load that didn't drain properly. And probably all the dirty laundry from the two floors above that machine. But of course I didn't realize that until most of my underwear disappeared beneath the murky surface of dirty water.

So, I plunged my hands beneath said murky surface of said dirty water and felt around the bottom until I found all of my clothes. As in, into the water that everyone else's dirty laundry has been washed in). And then I had to put the dirty, soapy watery laundry back in the basket (which has holes in the side and therefore leaks) and carry it over to the next building. So by the end I was covered in bleach, dirty water, and laundry detergent, and had lost eight of the twenty quarters I currently have for the purposes of doing laundry.

Sigh. These experiences build character.