I went back to work on Monday. I was hoping my strength would come back now that most of the pain from the pneumonia is gone, but I find I’m really suffering from exhaustion. It seems like doing anything takes 3 times the energy it usually does. I only did a 4 hour shift last night and afterwards I wound up sleeping for 10 hours and just feel like I ache all over. I’ve agreed with my manager that for the next couple weeks I’m just going to do 3 days, 3-4 hour shifts, and just try to not push myself so far.
Just feel frustrated, I’ve been off work for 4 weeks because of the car crash and the pneumonia and now I can’t even go back properly because I just get exhausted so quickly. Hoping my energy comes back by Christmas.
My wife and I have been renting a washing machine and dryer from a local renting company for the last eight years, since moving to our current city. This weekend, we finally got our own washer and dryer and they are being delivered and installed now. It’s been one of those milestone things that week keep telling ourselves we’ll do when the time is right and it’ll be the exact ones we want, and now it’s finally happening. The big events of adulthood, wahoo.
The concept of rented/public washing machines (As I could see in movies) is another western thing that baffles me. Why wouldn’t people purchase one by default?
Because we couldn’t find anyone to purchase one of our kidneys so we could pay for the machines.
People who don’t live in the west, particularly the USA, need to understand three fundamental things in order to avoid any bafflement:
Nothing is free here. Nothing, absolutely nothing. Anything that is free is some kind of scam or will come back to be paid for in some other, unanticipated way.
Everything is expensive. And it will get more expensive. What a bottle of water costs you today, it will cost you more by the same day the following year.
Everything you hear about anything else, other than the above two points, is complete and utter bullshit. The USA was built on, for, and of, bullshit.
I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this on this forum before but my grandfather rented his telephone from the phone company for decades before finally purchasing one. At the time he started renting it you couldn’t buy a phone but by the time he stopped, you could get one from Walmart for 10 dollars.
There is a big business in renting household appliances and it’s easy to look at something like that and thing “why not just buy one” but it’s often not that simple.
Yup, exactly. And to their credit, this small, local rental company gave us good service for eight years, with only a few minor price increases. Apparently we were an unusual case for them as they normally have just temporary renters, so we were big business for them during that time that even the owners extended their thanks to us when we parted ways with them a few days ago.
@Heisenberg your explanation doesn’t really answer my question. Nothing is free, washing machines are expensive and you don’t get to tell me about inflation. Why public machines in the first place…? Such a phenomena doesn’t seem to exist in the east and they’re dirt poor in comparison.
My point being that the USA in particular takes all of those points to ridiculous levels, even by the standard of other capitalist nations, and every head scratching thing about the USA and its people and customs boils down to that. I wasn’t trying to suggest that the same kind of thing doesn’t happen elsewhere, just how pervasive you’ll find it here relative to most other places. Ultimately, you rent something like a washer and dryer mainly because you can’t yet afford to buy one.
Sometimes you rent washing machines along with the apartment, they are part of it. That is often attractive as your other washing machine might be very old or also not your own.
Otherwise I don’t know a case where someone actively rented a machine in Germany. It either comes with the apartment, you buy one yourself or you go to a self-service laundry.
Feels too essential for a household with kids to be considered too expensive to buy. Come to think of it, self-service laundry is quite a useful alternative.
There are public laundry vendors which handles washing, drying and ironing of heavy cloths like blankets, bed covers, heavy curtains, sports shoes, suits and other heavy indian attires here. These are difficult or not feasible to wash and dry at home, they have pickup and drop facility.
As an example, in Mumbai map, there is a laundry area near Vanya Shah train yard - traditional way. Nowadays they use huge washing machines and dryers as modern way.
Personally I feel it is a good business
Wasn’t Varg also the nutter who burnt down a bunch of Stave Churches as revenge for the Christian conversion of Norway? I have no idea why they released him, he hasn’t recanted a single one of the views that made him murder people and burn down cultural heritage.
I did an x-ray and blood test a couple days ago. My pneumonia has gotten worse than when I was first diagnosed 3 and half weeks ago. I’m in hospital, going to spend the night. Doing tests while taking stronger antibiotics, as they try and figure out why this has been getting worse.
I’m lucky, I’ve been given a room in the new bit of the hospital, so Ive got a private room with it’s own toilet, it’s quite nice.
Such a phenomena doesn’t seem to exist in the east and they’re dirt poor in comparison.
