Laundry

My building has a laundry room with five washing machines and four dryers. These machine work with a money card. You put money on the cars, then inserted into the machine and work starts. The washer works at $3.00 for 26 minutes while the dryers work a $2.50 for 36 minutes. The basic rule is that everybody supposed to watch the time and remove the clean laundry when the machines finish their operation.

It is very inconvenient if someone is so absentminded that forgets to come to the laundry room and take out the finished stuff. But if somebody who just don't feel like waiting too long takes it out they get insulted. Crazy, inconsiderate people. Unfortunately, this building has too many of that kind. They just get too busy pushing their telephones to remember the laundry.

So, the other day we were doing our bi-weekly laundry, and all went well. Three out of the four driers were free, one still running with a few minutes left. Miraculously, about two minutes after it stopped a man came down and emptied it. I complimented him that he is one of the few who comes down on time. He appreciated my compliment and we started to talk. He was about middle age, but we had a great understanding about today's younger people. 

We exchanged opinions about what goes on in the world, how today's younger generation can not live without the internet or cell phone, how an immediate response is absolutely necessary when one gets a message or email. We both understood that these people can not imagine how we were able to survive without these electronic wonders.

I am much older than he was yet, we both came to the same conclusions about today's "youths".