Old people love their dry cleaners. They are like a special little shop in a neighborhood overrun with new-fangled restaurants and youth-oriented record shops.
But with the advent of Dryel-like technology and the fast-diminishing need for things like three-piece suits (!) and "business wear," dry cleaners' clock is ticking. Like Netflix and video shoppes or the internet and travel agencies, technology and advances in, well, regular old common sense, is making the need for dry cleaners obsolete.
And thank god. Dry cleaning is a dreadfully harmful business in environmental terms. The main cleaning agent is called Perchloroethylene and it's a, uh, "probable carcinogen" which means it absolutely causes cancer. Even short term exposure to "Perc" (neat! Perc!) can cause dizziness, fatigue, headaches, sweating, incoordination and unconsciousness. That sounds like fun. While long-term exposure can cause liver and kidney damage. Fooking yipes, people. Those tree-huggers in California have even banned the substance (by 2023 lol).
So we'll miss those old racist commmercials and naturally some of these antiques will have to stay open so we can clean wedding dresses and tuxedos or whatever for when we go to the ball, but we don't need one of these on every block in America so ...
Tick f'ing tock.
you're right dude, all those little nice asian ladies - they don't need jobs or food or shelter. close their shops up! they weren't even close to paying off the chinese mafia debt they gained just getting into the country. THANKS A LOT MAN.
ReplyDeleteJust kidding, I've never been into a dry cleaners. But seriously, more jobs for old asian ladies they are adorable.
And don't forget the Abercrombie & Fitch "Wong Brothers Laundry" t-shirt fiasco from a few years ago...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.tow.com/2002/04/18/abercrombie-and-fitch-protest/