THURSDAY,APRIL17,2003
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 5A
Mishaps, beer entertain students as dirty laundry spins and cycles
By Nicole Roché
nroche@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Brandon Baker/Kansan
James Mostrom, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, sophomore, does his laundry at Duds' N Suds because it is close to his home on Sixth Street. While he waits for clean clothes, he said, he likes to go to Pyramid Pizza next door and get two slices of pizza and a root beer.
While shirts, socks and unmentionables spin in the dryer, students find ways to pass the time — and get over the mishaps of laundry night.
Jenna Rademacher and Matt Wilson, Dallas freshmen, spend Wednesday nights doing laundry together. Rademacher said she had never done her laundry until she came to college this year.
"I called my mom the first time," she said. "She kind of walked me through it."
She said she had caught on quickly, although an incident with a red shirt and a load of whites had been discouraging.
Wilson said although doing laundry was relaxing, he missed having a free washer and dryer.
"At home, you don't have to stick quarters in," he said.
Jordan Day, Atlanta senior,
said he passed the time at the
laundromat by doing homework.
Day said laundry was pretty self-explanatory — "You just lift the lid and see how to do it."
Yet even he has had one problem. Someone once left bleach in the washer and he did a load of darks, leaving him with a bunch of spotted shirts.
Day said he did his laundry at Duds' N Suds, 918 Mississippi St. because of the atmosphere.
"If I'm not doing my homework," he said, "I can grab a beer."
Adrienne Stallman,
Naperville, Ill., senior and Duds
'N Suds employee, said the lau-
dromat catered to college students by providing a study area. pool tables and a bar.
"My friends are like, 'You guys have a bar in there?'" Stallman said. "But it's really boring sitting there doing your laundry."
Stallman said about 20 to 30 people dragged in their laundry each night.
She said that one time someone brought in three trash bags of laundry and was there for hours. Another time a man came in just to have a beer, shoot some pool and hang out.
"He wasn't even doing any laundry," she said.
Katy Kirkpatrick, Prairie Village senior, said that as a design student she often sketched while
She said her girlfriend usually did their laundry, but now that she was out of town for the week, Kirkpatrick was left with the chore. She said lack of clean clothing drove her to it.
"I guess I'm kind of like that loser bachelor guy," Kirkpatrick said. "But when the pink floral socks come out, I know it's time to do laundry."
For some reason, Kirkpatrick said, she had a lot of laundry horror stories. One time, a leaking motor in a washer stained her entire load with oil. Another time one of her just-washed shirts ended up in a trash can at a laundromat — on top of a "poo-
covered sock." And recently, at an unmanaged laundromat, a group of intoxicated men kept telling her she had "a real pretty waist." She said she hadn't gone back.
Despite her experiences, Kirkpatrick said laundry nights were not completely awful. In addition to a love for folding clothes, she said, she looked forward to the clean clothes guaranteed after a night of laundry.
"When you wake up the next morning, you have an infinite number of possibilities,"she said. "You can wear whatever you want."
—Edited by Brandon Gay
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