Everybody always presents laundromats in tv shows and movies as this sexy place where you meet horny singles who aren’t wearing underwear because it’s in the wash.

But in real life, that just isn’t true. The laundromat has angry people who don’t want to be there, and nobody EVER has sex, or takes their clothes off.

So why are laundromats always presented like that?

  • AAA
    271·
    12 days ago

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

    • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
      9·
      12 days ago

      I hate how tv seems to be written by people who have no idea how regular people live. Like how in tv shows, people pop in on someone at home and person is fully made up and dressed, and their homes are always spotless. You pop in on me unexpected and I’m going to be in my boxer briefs, angry that I’m being disturbed, and there are kids toys and laundry all over the living room

        • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
          2·
          11 days ago

          I actually love shoes like Sopranos that pay attention to those details. Why is the soprano home so clean? They have a maid. Then Tony moves out into his mom’s old place and it’s a shit show, dishes, pizza boxes and beer bottles everywhere. Clothes all over the floor

      • Unlocalhost@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 days ago

        I always found it funny how writers portray themselves as upper middle class in New York living in in apartment only the top 1% of writers can afford when the reality is the opposite.