Automatic Laundry

I have absolutely no reservations giving this laundromat such a low rating. After all, as far as I’m concerned it is not associated with any humans beside the people who use its services. It is a perfect place to let out all my aggression. If there were someone working there, an 82-​year-​old grandmother type, for example, I might think, «well, this place sucks but that lady sure is nice…» but in this case, it’s just a big empty soulless place, so I’m going to lay it down:
This place stinks.
It used to be that at least doing laundry here was cheaper than anywhere else, which was convenient for me because it was so close to my house, but they have recently raised their prices so it no longer has that distinction.
Even if it was cheaper though, I’ve lost so many quarters to these machines. They are always broken.
I go in there and put a load in to wash and sit there with a book making sure that anyone walking by can see what I’m reading (it’s usually poetry or short stories for the laundromat), but no one interesting ever walks by to appreciate it.
I was spinning around in there a couple weeks ago though, trying to keep up with the clothes, and bumped into a beautiful shirtless man. I guess he had to wash absolutely everything, he was only wearing some shorts and it was cold. He smiled and I went back to reading. The clothes was winning.
The music they play in this place is awful.
I hate it, I hate it, I hate this place.
I always accidentally buy fabric softener when I mean to buy detergent from the machine there. They need to make these things more clear! Ahhh! I’m so terribly annoyed!
But I keep on coming back. Any other place would involve walking blocks away. That’s how they get you! That’s how they reel you in, and you have no other place to turn! Modern society gives you no options. It’s this laundromat or going around with smelly clothes, and I’m starting to think that perhaps I should do the latter.

Easily the planet’s worse laundromat. They raised their wash prices to $ 2.00 from 1.75. I don’t like giving one star but this place actually deserves negative stars. I could see if they got new equipment or kept up their current equipment. It is roulette to avoid losing vast sums of money on their gambling equipment… oppps I mean washers and dryers.
They never have change and going here is always a disappointment.

I went back and it was even worse. The change machine ate my last $ 5 and I ended up having to take half my load to another laundromat to use their atm and get change. What a pain! Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice… I’m washing somewhere else forever.

How much does it take for a laundromat to rate an endorsement? Not much. The following will suffice:
1) Proximity — 1 block from my house. I want to be able to do laundry in my pajamas, and this place lets me live that dream.
2) Functional Machines — In my many, many times to this place, I have encountered one broken dryer, which was well marked as broken. I have never lost a single quarter to a broken machine. And the bill changer is always full.
3) Availability — I go on Saturday afternoons and weekday evenings and have always had my choice of machines.
4) Price — $ 2.25 for the superbig machines (all I use). Pretty much priced at the market for a big load of duds.
5) Temperature/​Environment — This place has none of the sweatshop ambiance of some previous laundry places I’ve gone to. Big windows let in lots of sun; there is always lots of fresh air.
6) Cleanliness — Despite the fact that I never see anyone cleaning, the place is always tidy.
Only thing keeping this from 5 stars is there is never anyone on site. Not that it’s happened, but if a problem ever arises, you’ve got nobody to help you out. Could also use more folding table space, but really not too bad in that regard either.