Laundry on the Destiny

After settling into their cabin last week, Beebee was pleased to see a launderette not very far down the corridor on the same deck. A few days later, she was able to easily find an empty washing machine, even though one of the three was not working, and refresh their clothes. A week later, a similar trip snagged the only available machine of the two working ones, and there was a waiting line before their clothing advanced from washer to dryer to folded. This morning there was no luck at all, with several scouting forays finding the same (unfriendly) people using all the machines for multiple loads.

 

Fortunately, there is another launderette on deck 8 directly above this launderette, and still another on deck 6 directly below both of the others.

 

Unfortunately, all the machines on deck 8 were busy with another set of (unfriendly) people. On reaching the deck 6 launderette, a line out the door was quickly encountered of more (unfriendly) people. No luck here.

 

Since the non-working machine has remained non-working for 12 days now, it is obvious that certain repairs are not important enough to do for a ship headed for major renovation.

 

What to do.

 

Each day, the Carnival Fun Times (the daily schedule) has posted a notice for laundry haters: for some unspecified amount of $ (possibly $15), a bag of laundry that is picked up by 10:30 am will be returned freshly laundered, dryed and folded by 7 pm. Using the self-serve launderette, the same bag of laundry would cost $7 ($3 for washer plus $3 for dryer plus $1 for soap) plus monitoring time, so the markup is approximately 100%. On the positive side, the microscopic scrutiny of the other launderers is avoided. (Why are they so interested in other people's underwear?)

 

Unfortunately, after Beebee checked and re-checked (and re-checked...) "her" launderette for available machines, and then checked the other launderettes, and then found the stateroom steward, the time was 11 am and past the deadline for pickup.

 

There is always tomorrow.

 

Local time = GMT + 1 = EST + 6

Distance traveled at 2:24 pm local time: 4200 nm

Sea depth: 980 ft

 

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