November 7, 2011

Wet quarters

I work at a school where the state's best and brightest come to advance themselves academically. I'm talking classes like calculus 64 and physics 82; these kids don't mess around. My role in all of this is to help students adjust to living away from home and occasionally handling relationship crises.

One of the many new and exciting concepts students learn when they come to live at school is how to do laundry. Questions about colors, sorting, or how much laundry detergent to use are common, but one question I was asked tonight took me by surprise.

"Kim, do wet quarters still work?"

Yes. Yes they do.

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