tossin’ sheets

January 4, 2006, 1:52 am
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So the laundromat that I sat in in Nashville had something interesting on the walls: pictures of movie stars with their “autographs.” Now I guess it’s cute to have something like that in a diner in Memphis where Elvis ate his peanut butter and banana sandwiches, or maybe even the outhouse Thoreau used….but at a dinky laundromat in Nashville? I doubt Lucille Ball or The Stones dropped a load in the same washer I happen to be scrubbing my bed sheets in. Kenny Rogers is debatable. Maybe the pictures were there to make me feel better about paying $2.00 to wash a comforter and two pillowcases, or they were just hanging around to inspire my future success in anthropology when I discover the lost tribe of Chile. I wouldn’t be a big enough star to warrant having my picture hung in a laundromat, but I bet you could find it behind a bathroom stall. And wouldn’t that be ironic…me sharing a porcelain throne with anyone in the world when I can’t even mention bodily function number two in conversation. Which makes me wonder if these stars had little quirks about laundromats.