8.11.15
Me: *transfers laundry from washer to dryer, carefully sorting through what gets dried and what doesn’t*
Her: *flies down stairs* *adds cash to laundry card* *holds up card* Do you like this thing?
Me: Oh, I LOVE it.
Her: Really? I wasn’t sure if I had money on it and I had to run to the ATM.
Me: Well, I had to collect quarters before. This is so much better. Once you added the money, did you find you hadn’t needed to?
Her: I mean, yeah, it was on zero and I’m in the middle of my laundry, but I had to go out to the ATM.
Me: At least the ATM gives currency the card takes. Quarters are hard to find when you’re in the middle of laundry.
Her: True.
She didn’t seem entirely convinced with my arguments, but to me, quarter-fed machines = college to me and upgrading from quarters to a plastic card means I’m moving up on the adulthood scale.
Abigail Mumford 