A First Timer's Crisis

      Seeing as it likely pertains to everyone reading this blog, I am going to talk about doing your own laundry. Before I begin I should mention that I am the classic case of never doing a load of laundry before my first week of college, and it just so happens that my first week of college was about a month ago. So, it seems fitting that, to go along with being the classic kid who had never done a load of laundry before leaving for college, I had a terrible first experience. Well, maybe not terrible, but let's just say that things definitely could have gone better. For starters I walked down to the laundry room only to realize there were no washers available. Thus, I walked right back up to my room and waited until one opened up. Then, I put my clothes in the washer, placed in the Tide pod, put in roughly 150 Downey scent-boosting capsule things and started the washer. After about 30 minutes I walked back down the check on my load of laundry. So, I opened it up only to realize that the scent-boosting capsules did not disintegrate in the slightest. Keep in mind that at this point in the story it is around midnight, and I had my first day of classes the following morning. Now, I did the only logical thing I could think to do, and I ran the entire load again. However, this time I went back down after about 15 minutes because I decided it was too late and I couldn't possibly wait another full 30 considering I still had to dry and fold my clothes. Therefore, I opened up the washer and noticed that because I didn't let the load finish all of my clothes were sitting in about three gallons of water. Tired and annoyed, I decided I would wring my clothes out myself and place them into the dryer. Needless to say, I got water all over the floor of the laundry room, but I didn't care because it was too late for other people to be doing laundry anyway. I was the only one dumb enough to stay up that late before the first day of classes. Anyway, after an hour I went back down to take my clothes out of the dryer and got one of many first lessons in the Park Hall laundry room. The dryers suck. My clothes had somehow become more wet since I had taken them out of the washer and placed them into the dryer. Nonetheless, I decided to start the dryer again for another hour and just go to bed. Next, I woke up early in the morning only to realize once again how bad the dryers were. So, I ran that load of laundry four more times that day until finally, at long last, my clothes were dry. Since that day I would say my skill in the laundry department has increased immeasurably, and I have not had much difficulty whatsoever. It's just like the old saying goes, there's a first time for everything.