The apartment complex I live in charges an outrageous amount of money to wash and dry a load of laundry. Outrageous to the tune of 7 quarters. It's not necessarily the amount of money that's outrageous (I could live with spending $1.75 twice a week for clean clothes) so much as it is the amount of quarters. See my point?
And to make matters worse, they don't have a quarter dispensing machine in the room so you have to go elsewhere to obtain the quarters and then travel back to the laundry room to actually do the laundry. On more than once occasion this has led to me having to go to the grocery store at 2 AM, use the ATM to get some cash, and then use that cash to buy something cheap and ask for as much change as possible in quarters - all so that I can have clean clothes for work in the morning.
Well it seems the apartment complex finally realized it was a problem and recently put in a change dispensing machine. The catch? It only dispenses change after you buy a 75 cent CAN OF SODA! I kid you not. Seventy-five big ones (cents). And it's not even name-brand soda. It's 75 cents for a can of Super-Cola.
The whole thing is outrageous. I'd do something about it but right now I need to do some laundry and there's a can of Dr. Shasta with my name on it.
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