Web Laundry

I really like this idea about Web Laundry that Virginia Tech just started. Web Laundry lets the residents check to see if any washers are available before they carry all their laundry down two flights of stairs to find out that all washers are taken. If there are certain hours in the day where I can do laundry I will be able to reserve a machine during that time; however, you only have five minutes to use it once you reserve it. When I go back upstairs and wait forty minutes sometimes I forget what time I put my laundry in so I end up going down stairs ten minutes before it is over. The flaw is the text message tells you it is almost done twenty minutes before and it is complete ten minutes before. I guess they do that to get you down stairs by the time it is actually done. The bonus to the ten minute waiting period is that I get to meet the other people who are also waiting for their laundry to finish. It is nice to meet new people that live in my same dorm. The ten minute heads up is also nice because sometimes I get carried away with my homework or a TV show and I end up going down to get my laundry ten minutes after it is done. This is very scary because I do not want my nice clean clothes to end up on the floor because some greedy person wants my washer or drier and is not patient enough to wait fifteen minutes. I understand after thirty minutes if the person does not come pick up their clothes then it is fair to move it. But honestly I do not particularly want to move boy’s underwear so I can get the drier. This text message idea will remind people of their clothes so others are not put in awkward situations. There are weekends when I decide to do laundry at one am because no one else is and people have clothes in the drier when I start my laundry to when I finish my laundry. This new service will make the chore of doing laundry run more smoothly and efficient. I am so glad they installed this new system.