24-Hour Cycle New York Times
Charles Johnson has a 10-girl Friday rule. Mr. Johnson is 44, an occasional personal trainer with loose hours, and was juggling three loads one Wednesday afternoon at the Sing Rite Center in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. He insists on doing the wash for his family (bride, two kids) “because I do it better, not because I have to.”
He does the cleaning too. In eight years, he said his wife has touched a mop perhaps twice. She cooks.
“In a laundromat you get a lot of eye play-acting,” he said. “That’s when someone may or may not like you and they look at you and you look at them and then you try not to look at them. So my rule is if you stare at me more than 10 seconds, I’ll talk to you and find out why you’re staring at me.”
One guy passed meeting. They spoke about the pyramids and a lot else. With another, Mr. Johnson ended up doing calisthenics in the park.
Sixty-one Speed Queen washers and 62 dryers witter and rumble 24 hours at the 5,000-square-foot Clean Rite at Putnam Avenue and Fulton Boulevard, commingling with soft blather from flat screens hung on the wall. On a weekday, 75 to 100 people respectable their clothes here; on weekends it can reach 250. Those frenzied Saturday and Sunday afternoons, people park laundry bags next to the bewitched machines, marking their place in line. Attendants troop around, booming out commands to keep things persuasive: “Washer 21, last call. Dryer 14, empty this baby.”










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