On Laundry, And Getting What Youy Pay For
I did a load of wash today, and because someone had abandoned their wardrobe in the good dryer, I had to use the bad dryer.
I plugged my money in and came back at the appointed time, only to discover (surprise!) that my clothes were still damp. Sighing, I put in a second loony (machine only takes $1 at a time) and walked away again. When I was checking on it a short while later (still damp, wait another 10 minutes) it occurred to me that this was all wrong.
My parents’ dryer has a sensor in it that determines if your clothes are dry. When you set it, you don’t set it according to time, you set it according to the desired level of dryness. When I retrieved my clothes about half way through my second dry cycle (for which I’d paid full price), I realized that pay machines ought to work in the same way. What if instead of $1 entitling me to 50 minutes of dryer time, $1 entitled me to dry clothes? A shocking idea, I know.
Ask any BCom. why the machines in a business are set up that way or you could go to an MBA as then you could talk at the same level rather than have an undergraduate give you the skinny on our material (not clothes) world.
Sleepy head.
…so they make more money off of you, obviously.