Laundry Rooms

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So does anyone else here like hanging around laundry rooms? I know I read on some aspie forum that a few other people did. I remember once, when I was a kid, my mom was moving or something, and all her stuff had been in boxes in the back of a pickup, and they got rained on. When we took them in, I diligently put every last article of clothing through the washer and dryer, even though she insisted that I didn't need to. I spent like five hours just sitting in that room, waiting to start another load. After that I picked up a rabit of reading in the laundry room while the machines were working. And there was a combination laundry mat/ice cream parlor near where I once lived that I used to read at and still visit every now and then.

I like laundry rooms. I like the smell and the sound. But sooner or later an NT is going to try to strike up a conversation, so I don't stay. At my sister's house, the guest bed is on the other side of the wall from the dryer - it put me to sleep every time.

I'd get bored to death sitting in a laundry room that long.
I hate doing the laundry

I've only been in my laundry room three or four times since we moved in last summer, and that was only to go get something. It's a big laundry room (about 8x10 sf), but it totally stinks because of the dogs. I don't see how anyone would like hanging out in a laundry room!

no not really but i really do like the laundry matt, it smells wonderful. i'd ware some cologne that smelled like a laundry matt, plus ive always always wanted to work in one!

Simply put, no.

Great, I feel like a freak even on the aspie board. And this isn't the first time. Clearly I have something else going on here.

Personally, I don't really have an issue with laundry rooms. There is a laundry room down the corridor from my flat. I rarely use it, as most of my laundry is now done at my mum and dads. After a few incidents of good clothes being ruined by coin machines (remnants of bleach still in it, etc, unbekownst to me), I sought out an alternative. So, to avoid a ramble, I only use the laundry room in my building when absolutely necessary.

I used a coin laundy service weekly whilst attending boarding school in the early 1990's. With the exception of one place (which was dirty), my expierience with laundries was quite good. I usually took a book or school work along with me and a walkman when I had one. Sometimes, I would go to a near by Chinese take away or corner shop for a treat if I had the money.

Outside of the need for clean clothing, I would really have no use or interest in spending any more time in a lundry than is necessary.

On an odd note, there was a boy who I attended boarding school with who liked to frequent funeral parlours. He got in serious trouble one afternoon for attending a private viewing at the local parlour (he didn't know the family or the deceased). He claims the atmosphere of funeral parlours is relaxing. He was a strange fellow.

Goggle ...."Zippy the Pinhead",it's an interesting comic I use to read.He loved laundromats.....

I do not like the people or the lights in laundromats but if I could have one of my own....I would sit and watch the laundry and foamy soap spin around and around and around.....I think it's beautiful.I love the heat from the dryers and the smell.

You are not a complete freak..... ......and everything is not AS.I have also posted many topics that no one responded to or did not relate to.....like my howling thread....I thought, surely other aspies love to howl....evidently not ...

This is coming from someone who did an Ethnography on laundromats...But personally, I hate them. They're dull, nobody gives a f**k about anything but themselves, and it's about two hours of my day/life wasted.

About the only thing I enjoy is watching the clothes spin around in the front-loaders and the dryers...going around and around and around. Otherwise, I just hop back into my car and listen to tunes.