My senior year of college a homeless man took refuge in my apartment’s laundry room. This was unnerving for a variety of reasons. The biggest was that we shared a common wall.
My current issue is not who is living in my laundry room, but what is actually in there.
There are 100 units in my building, ranging from studios to 2-bedrooms (but we all know that means Convertible to 3). For the purpose of this, let’s estimate that 150 people live in my building.
According to a ridiculous (and probably unproven) statistic I found online, the average person does around 3 loads per week. I personally find this number a bit high, but I also don’t do my laundry every week…and I fill those babies to the brim. So I’m going to arbitrarily say that it’s 2 loads.
But let’s go with this math for a second. 150 people, who manage to get down to the laundry room once a week to do their 2 loads. That’s 300 loads a week. Let’s also ignore for a moment that the laundry room is connected to the boiler room, so at any given time it’s at least 100 degrees or more, and let’s also forget the fact that the number of washers and dryers is unequal. Yes, you read that correctly. So if there are X washers, there are X-1 dryers, which means there’s always a pile-up.
So how many washers would there have to be in order for there to be enough for us to do our weekly 300 loads?
Wrong Answer: This building has 4, and an animal lives in one of them.
