Travel and Laundry

Being able to do laundry at my destination isn't that high on my travel checklist.  Clean clothes, dressing correctly for the trip, tickets, cash, ID, gas in the tank, air in the tires and the sort tend to take priority.  Happily, the Curmudgeon Handbook is quite helpful for packing smartly for travel, the overall guiding principle being making for a comfortable, enjoyable and carefree trip (a curmudgeon doesn't need to be set up for more things to annoy him - plenty abound).  Doing laundry on a trip is therefore understandably not considered, it being neither "enjoyable" nor "carefree."

So it came as rather a surprise to me when recent house guests announced they had to do a laundry the morning after they arrived.  I was floored - it was incomprehensible - could they actually have brought dirty clothes along?  Was this some insidious, twisted scheme to play with my ordered world?

I took it as my cue to go to Home Depot for a few hours to try to forget.