So I'm sitting in the laundrymat washing the seat covers to my RV. I have not been to a laundry in a long time, glad to report that nothing really changes in these sort of places. I had to use the monster 60 pounder to do the covers. They are fairly stiff and have vinyl panels and I have a few of them. But they are in good shape which is lucky, because that's one more thing I will not have to replace.
What is so fascinating about the laundry machine? I can't help but be mesmerized by the osculating action of the drum. The gentle whine of the servo deep inside is lulling me to sleep. I have twelve minutes left then it's off to the dryer. The washer has a small leak and the water is dripping out the front hatch slowly but steadily.
I am the only person in here except for the one employee behind the steel gate in the back. This is just how I remember it. Once in a while someone walks in to get their load out of the machines. Eight minutes left.
Big Bertha is now going into high speed rinse. It's winding up like a jet engine and looking into the glass it kinda looks like a jet. Soon my covers will be a quarter of the volume than when I started. Ok, top speed, not as fast as I though it would go but fast enough. Five minutes.
I am imagining putting everything together in the RV and how it's going to look. It looks good in my head and once this is done I will clean the seating area and get it ready for it's maiden voyage.
I still need to get the numbers off the generator so I can fix the Carb. Oh, it's done.
Alright, I just loaded up the dryer and set it to low so the vinyl won't go away. They looked pretty clean when I pulled them out of the washer and smelled good too. No more mouse smell, not that is was very strong.
This go around will take about twenty minutes so I have time to wax poetic. I don't know what that means but I'm sure I'm doing it. There are no seats on the dryer side of the laundry so I have to stand and wait, I suppose I could just sit in the wash area, there is just one person here.
It was raining when I left work so I didn't think I would stop by the RV tonight but now I'm having second thoughts. I may go over and drop off the covers, heck I may even put some back on. It depends on how late I will be.
Alright, enough boring laundry commentary.
actually, that wasn`t boring and it was quite darned poetic. kerouac, watch out!
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