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I’ve definitely experienced romance in a laundromat, it was a place where I had basically nothing but time and was freshly out on my own. It was a place I could focus on texting someone I was falling for.

Also it’s one of those things I will struggle to avoid any chance I can get in the future because that time translated to an hour and a half long chore that’s mostly waiting where I couldn’t do much else. It fucking sucked lol.

Oh also there’s a bar with live music in a laundromat that I’ve been to, alcohol and punk music can definitely up the vibes

aren’t wearing underwear because it’s in the wash

??????? Do these people only have one paif of underwear??

Remember the Levi's classic ad 1985, now I feel old.

Don't believe everything you see on TV. There's a reason it's called "the idiot box".

It makes me wonder how many people don't own washing machines. I mean I consider that was essential as a fridge.

Because if people wanted to see angry people who don't want to be there, they would just go to a laundromat in real life.

It's kind of what I liked about Baby Driver, the movie acknowledges that a laundromat is kind of a weird place to hang out for a date, but the awkwardness lets the passionate feelings they have for each other shine through.

Because some of those angry lonely people are writers, and they have a lot of time to think.

You must watch very different movies than I do. I immediately envision something dank and dark with flickering lights.

Wow, what kind of lame laundromats have you been visiting?

The scientific reason is that the 350 watt drum connected to the dryer motor vibrates at 55 hertz which stimulates the female solar plexus. This creates a chain reaction and urges males to assert dominance and proceed with a mating ritual. When you combine this with the enticingly large sums of cash at a typical laundromat, you can see this is a devastating combination. The scantily clad hot body people is a side effect, not the cause.

The laundromat has angry people who don't want to be there,

I live in a college town. The laundromat nearest me has a bar.

Yeah I'm tired of all this laundromat sexy-washing.

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I want to know what TV shows you are watching

Most of the stuff I watch have something bad happen in a laundromat, like getting chased by armed thugs

Because people who never needed to use an annoying thing like to imagine and romantize how they would use it. Completely ignoring reality.

I have never seen a laundromat romanticized in a movie as far as I can recall.

Seattle used to have a combination laundromat/bar that was called Sit and Spin.

Never had a chance to go. I imagine it was a very horny place. Also at the time median age in Seattle was like 23.