I think it’s great that the apartment buildings in Sweden generally have laundry rooms available for use for no additional cost, besides that of detergent and any fancy fabric softeners, at least. I am very lucky, because our flat has a simple laundry room. Our sign-up sheet is a single piece of unlined paper and we don’t even usually have to sign up in advance. Yes, one of the machines takes six or seven hours to wash a load, but it dries as well. I’ve heard some horror stories from some of my non-Swedish friends here about their experiences with their laundry systems. Most of these usually feature getting shut out of the laundry room because they returned ten minutes after their alloted time was up and weren’t able to retrieve their clothes…
Swedish society is really interesting because it is rigid in different ways than in the US. Examples: laundry rooms, number tickets for store queues, liquor laws, and attitudes towards drugs. On the other hand, the Swedes I’ve met here are really open-minded and not uptight. Granted, I have been in the liberal university town that is Lund for less than two months. I’d be interested to think of who/what the Swedes consider ”the man” to be. What or who do they rebel against? In the US, the youth culture is usually rebelling against something, whether it’s the government, their parents, their ex, or the rest of the world that they can’t identify with.
THE END. (sorry it’s abrupt)
