How to do laundry in student housing

• Pester your husband about putting money on his ID card
• Load up the laundry basket with clothing and soap, put in car because it's too heavy to walk to the laundry building
• Drive to laundry building
• Discover front door is locked.   Realize you were never given a key to the laundry building
• Think for a moment and hypothesize that it's the same key to the community center.
• Take basket of clothes back to car.  (Lest my underwear be sitting out in the open on the sidewalk)
• Walk to apartment and get community center key
• Walk back to car to retrieve clothing
• Unlock front door and enter laundry building. 
• Load clothing into machines, add soap
• Stare at machine to see how to start it
• Wander around aimlessly trying to find the card reader so I can pay for the damn wash cycle
• Locate card reader and pay for laundry
• Go back to apartment for the 37 minutes on the machine
• Walk back to laundry building, basket in hand (to bring back delicates that can't go in dryer) 
• Decide to use back door since it's closer to my sidewalk
• Fail to notice that back door is on a raised porch with a step
• Crash into the threshold/step, thus ruining the $45 pedicure I got on Monday.  Skin toe and draw blood under nail (sorry, gross)
• Hobble inside
• Put clothing into dryers, grab delicates and read A Walk in the Woods for 15 minutes while I wait for other delicates to get partially dry
• Laugh at Bill Bryson's writing
• Go back in to retrieve partially dry clothing
• Walk back to apartment with partially full laundry basket.  Realize it's a longer walk than I realized.
• Get back to apartment.  Put band-aid on toe.  Struggle to set up the drying rack.  Note that it is ASSEMBLED, but the top will not click into place.  
• Wonder if wearing dirty clothing and/or buying new instead of washing would be a better idea