{"id":9442,"date":"2025-06-09T06:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T13:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=9442"},"modified":"2025-06-09T06:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T13:50:11","slug":"laundromat-meditations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/laundromat-meditations\/","title":{"rendered":"Laundromat Meditations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

This is a good place to write. Sturdy wooden table. Tile floors. Led Zeppelin pinball machine. A library (surprisingly no Bible<\/em>). The sound of the industrial washers and dryers mutes the terrible 70s\/80s rock playing on a boombox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quarters only. The machines won’t take bills or debit card. No WI-Fi either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young woman is reading a book about color composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young obese couple is eating fast food and drinking huge sodas from the convenience store a block away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The employee who runs this operation runs a very tight ship. I just thanked him for keeping it clean. His boxer follows him around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside, homeless men and women pass by on a regular basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I stashed one of my books in the library. Why not? It might remain there for a quarter century before anyone reads it or reads it at all. Where will this nation be in 25 years?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most customers don’t hang out inside. They play with their phones out in their vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have been thinking about purchasing a washer and dryer for the house, but don’t mind coming here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who owns this laundromat? How does one get into this kind of business?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We know so little about how a vast majority of Americans earn a living. Writers don’t write enough about modern American jobs. The same could be say for musicians or visual artists. The Democratic Party follows this same line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Was \u201cTakin’ Care of Business\u201d the last great rock song about work? Springsteen used to write a lot of songs about work. (\u201cThe Factory\u201d and \u201cWorking on the Highway\u201d come to mind.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I just remembered Glen Campbell’s \u201cWichita Lineman.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My agenda after the laundromat: mow front lawn, build shelves, take Elmer to the beach (third time), read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I continue to think about my father’s death, certainly not in some traumatic way. Just remembrances. These thoughts typically emerge when I am performing manual labor. I can’t truly let him go until I wrap up estate matters with the kind of alacrity he taught me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Total cost of this visit: $6.50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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