Thai Laundry Ticket...

[jimslim]

Have you nothing more pressing to do

[Rocket J. Squirrel]

he's a funny one  that JimSlim  

[Steff]

Yup, a real riot Alice!!!!

[Lefty]

(Bumpa STIKKA @ Apr. 11 2010,08:39) No... I was being a bit sarcastic.

I don't know what Lefty had in mind when he posted that remark!  

12 baht per T shirt. 22 baht for a long shirt? Towels 22, Jeans 22, Trousers 25...etc, according to that receipt

You can find a lot of places in Pattaya that will do 80 items for 500 baht. Granted if one is there for only 2-3 weeks it may not work out to set something up with places like that.

When I was doing short stays there, 3-4 weeks, I paid a rate of 10 per item, be it any shirt, pair of socks, jeans, towel, boxer shorts, whatever.

[Lefty]

(PigDogg @ Apr. 11 2010,09:14) Guess what he had in mind was that my New York laundry is cheaper though I'm lucky enough to have two basement laundries competing next door a block from where I lived so it certainly was not typical NYC prices.   But the laundry did not have that sweet swell of Pattaya.

Stopped sending laundry out since there's a machine in my building.   Popped into the laundry that had the sweetest smell and they sold me a small umarked bottle of green liquid for 300 baht.

Since unmarked have no idea if it's a carcinogen.  Anyone know a brand name supermarket product for spraying on after the wash/dry/fold?

Many laundries in Pattaya do 80 pieces of clothing for 500 baht and you don't have to bring in the 80 pieces in one shot.  But I don't think there are any of thses laundries in the main tourist loop though I did see one on Soi Buckhaou.

You could just buy some of pine tree air fresheners they hang in the rear view mirrors of cars back in the USA. You know the ones. Cut out in the shape of a pine tree. Take some of them over next time or get someone to  bring you a box. you could rub them all over your freshly washed laundry. Then when you wore the clothers you'd think you were walking in a pine forest back home. If you ever get out of dreary old Manhattan that is.

[Lefty]

(Chinaman @ Apr. 11 2010,15:33)

(PigDogg @ Apr. 11 2010,12:22)   Before the elderly couple owned the laundry. other Chinese people owned it.  They hired a sexy girl from Belize or someplace like that to flirt with the customers.    Then her cousin started to hang around and I invited her out for margaritas and then back to Chez PigDogg.  So I guess I was also Sexy Man.    

"Chez Pigdogg" - sounds to me a bit like "Seinfeld" ;-)

Why don't you tell us mo' about yr wild days from last century  

PD was a NYC cab driver back in the 70s. Just watch that movie Taxi Driver. It was based on his cabby days.

[abba]

And Lefty starred in "Deliverance"?  (He was told to "Squeal, boy, I said squeal!")

[anthony70]

"no ticky ticky..... no laundry"
(jack nickolsen)

come on lefty, which film. ?

[kahuna]

The Departed

[Guest]

[Rocket J. Squirrel]

(Lefty @ Apr. 30 2010,21:16)
PD was a NYC cab driver back in the 70s. Just watch that movie Taxi Driver. It was based on his cabby days.

How different this city is today.  So much of the wonderful grit is gone.  There was a film locations guy on the radio last week talking about the impossibility of recreating the Taxi Driver scenes.  The neighborhoods just don't exist anymore.

Still have not found a lb owned laundry in NYC, but I am not giving up.  It's a problem.  The Chinese guys who wash my clothes are just not the same thing.  They never smile, never call me "Sexy Man", and they're Chinese guys, not ladyboys.

[Lefty]

(kahuna @ May 02 2010,06:25) The Departed

Ya can't beat Kahuna to the punch on movies. He is the real movie buff around here, not me. My width of knowledge is limited especially compared to him.