| >10 loads at laundromat >1. Put 10 loads in 10 washers. >2. Move 10 loads from 10 washers to 10 dryers. >3. Move 10 loads out of dryers and fold. As if. More like: 1. Arrive at the laundromat and realize there are only four washers free. 2. Start three loads because the fourth one doesn't work no matter how many coins you put in. 3. Wait for a dryer when the the three loads finish. Because washers are faster there are already two people waiting for a free dryer. You realize there's no point in hurrying to do the next three loads, since your first three are only making the dryer situation worse. 4. One dryer is finished but nobody is there to unload it. What's the etiquette at this place - should you take a stranger's load out and put it in one of the dingy carts? You wonder how big the owner of those clothes is, and if he's sane. 5. Eventually you get ten loads of clothes through three washers, read an entire three year old issue of Glamour magazine upside-down to make it last, and get all but the last two loads through the dryers before deciding to dry the last two at home by draping them over your furniture. Total run time, a little over five hours and ten sanity points. There's probably another cloud analogy in here somewhere. |