coffeefog

hide the evidence

So tonight I gathered up my jeans, my blue hooded sweatshirt, and some t-shirts and walked them down to the laundromat that's a block away. It's a nice laundromat - rarely crowded, and there's usually good reading material. And the vending machine has zingers. But when I got there, it was all police-taped off, and there was lots of crime scene type investigation going on. This is unusual, since I live in a quiet neighborhood full of families, med students, and the occasional yuppie. The cops on duty were nice enough to give me a run down of the events leading up to the crime scene'd laundromat:

1. Cops get APB for kids doing graffiti in the area
   
2. A patrol car notices a group of teenagers running down the street, flashes the lights and give chase.
   
3. One of the graffiti dudes breaks away and tosses their spray paint into a (running) dryer in my laundromat, presumably to hide the evidence.
   
4. 15 minutes later, the spray paint can explodes in the dryer. No one was hurt, but 5 dryers and a very nice pant set were destroyed.
   

I thanked the police for their detailed description, and walked 4 blocks to the next laundry place. It wasn't as good as mine, since it closed at 9:00 (mine closes at 11) and the owners were glaring at me until 9:22 when my pants were dry. It probably didn't help that I put them back in for another 15 minutes around 9PM when I thought they weren't dry enough. That seemed to make them pretty mad, but since they didn't speak much english I pretended not to know what they were talking about. Nobody likes wet pants.

For the record, this was all a lie. But this story occurred to me as I was putting my clothes in the dryer, and I thought it would be pretty cool to put a can of spraypaint in there too. And I just spilled some beer on my laptop, but it was just on the trackpad part, and that seems not to have destroyed any electronics. Hooray!

I wish I lived near a laundromat/bar combination like brainwash, but that's all the way on the other side of the city. And even if I drove my clothes over there I couldn't drink, because then I'd have to drive home. It just seems like it would be fun to drink 4 beers while doing laundry.

Posted by Ethan at February 18, 2003 10:18 PM