alaska-gold: At first I hadn’t noticed the Laundromat across from the apartment. Even if

alaska-gold: At first I hadn’t noticed the Laundromat across from the apartment. Even if the sign hadn’t been hidden by the bushes, the truth is I wouldn’t have been able to understand it at all. It wasn’t until the day I left without my keys that I walked in for the first time. I remember the coffee was fifty cents (you even got a mug for free if you settled for the longest washing cycle). But it wasn’t until several weeks later that I realised the place was open twenty four hours.I’d sit on one of their wooden chairs, at two or three or four in the morning and feel this weird twinge. When I looked up from my book to the people around me—students, people who’d come for the cheap coffee, the occasional crazy—I felt like I didn’t belong there, and should instead be at home sleeping like everyone else. But just as quickly the feeling would pass, everything settling back into place around me. My last time there, months ago, I noticed another girl in the room with bags under her eyes, and I’d wondered why dreams would decide to avoid something so beautiful. I’m thinking how I wouldn’t have thought about any of this if it hadn’t been for the doodle I found in my notebook. Funny how memories work, I don’t remember the coffee to taste that bad anymore. -- source link

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