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As I took the clothes out of the washer to put in the dryer I realized how quiet the laundromat had become. It was kind of eerie being in the large building with nothing but washers and dryers and a few vending machines offering everything from dry laundry detergent to bleach and fabric softeners to soda and candy, a weird combination but hey, you had to snack while you did your laundry and sometimes people only wanted a small amount of soap or bleach or softener. Personally, I bought it in normal bulk sizes and filled the smaller easily carried packages of whatever I needed in a special basket just for laundry. It wasn't as though I were going to go crazy and do tons of baskets of laundry at a time, I'd seen people come in here and do like twenty at a time. It amazed me that someone would have that much. I'd never had more than six and tonight I was especially annoyed because I did have the six and all but two of the machines were down due to maintenance on more than half the buildings electrical outlets. As a result I was having to use the two machines, two at a time, and wait for the next set to start, I was going to be here three times longer than I had planned and it was getting late.
No one else was in the laundromat but it gets weird late at night and you start to think all sorts of odd noises and even sights. I had been concentrating on my homework from college when I realized the damned machine I was using was rocking, unbalanced. I opened it to straighten out my disruptive and unbalanced load but that didn't seem to help, it kept rocking. I opened and shut it several times trying to balance out the load but to no avail. In fact it seemed to be getting worse, the machine was rocking hard enough to be walking itself away from the wall slightly, not a good thing with the connectors and all that. I leaned against it to prevent it disconnecting itself and this seemed to help a little but the agitation of the spinner thingy inside and then the bowl itself spinning caused it to rock again. Leaning against it wasn't cutting it. I tried leaning on top of it and this helped a little. It was only one step from sitting on the damn thing and I tried that. It seemed to calm the damn machine down my weight apparently holding whatever it needed to complete the rinse cycle.