Laundry Day at Excell Laundry-Laundry Day at Excell Laundry
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Laundry Day at Excell Laundry
All Washed Up
Chapter one
Inspired by: “Lisa” and “Cherie” who works at Excell Laundry in the Pueblo, CO and those who are into the Laundry Fetish thing at www.fetlife.com
At 11:30 am on a hot Wednesday in Pueblo, Michelle and her special needs child who only weighed 49 lbs at the tender age of 17. Michelle pulls up and parks on the side of the laundromat and parks. She gets out, shuts her door and then gets jay out of his car seat. Then she puts Jay into his stroller before going around to the back of her SUV to get all of Jay’s dirty onesies and wet and dirty cloth diapers. Jay’s mom loads the three large pillowcase sized laundry bags full of Jay’s dirty diapers and one bag full of his onesies underneath Jay’s stroller and the third bag onto Jay’s lap so she can roll Jay and the laundry into the laundromat. Michelle opens the door to the laundromat, and pushes Jay, in his loaded down stroller into the building and up the slight incline before stopping at the office which is on the left as they enter. Standing at the folding counter next to the office doorway is Lisa, folding some large loads of laundry and Cherie is standing in the office.
Lisa: Hi, how are you?
Cherie smiles and winks at Jay and then she waves cutely at him as Jay sits in his stroller
Michelle: Good. I have all of this laundry to drop off and have done.
Lisa: Ok, it’s going to be a dollar per pound and a $10 drop-off fee. Let’s go into the office here and get it all weighed, ok?
Michelle: I have my son wearing a wet cloth diaper and plastic pants, his dirty cloth diapers and all of his onesies here that need to be washed very well!
Lisa: Oh, your son is going to need washing too? Ok, I will need to weigh him and the diaper he has on to determine which machine he will go into.
Michelle: Ok Jay, I am going to unbuckle you from your stroller so that Lisa here, can weigh you and your diapers and onesies.
Jay: But…MOMMY! How come I….have to be washed here??? Can’t you wash me at home?
Michelle: No honey, our water is off at home for two days while the city fixes the water pipes in the streets. This is just an easier way to get you AND all of your dirty diapers and onesies all…nice…and clean. I am going to leave you here with Lisa until she gets you and your diapers done.
Jay: Mommy! Don’t go! Please! What is going to happen to me?
Michelle: Lisa will be washing you and your diapers and onesies honey….you will be fine…ok? I will be back when you, your diapers and onesies are all nice and clean…ok?
Lisa picks Jay up and out of his stroller and then puts him into a Rubbermaid tub that is on top of the laundry scale and then lays him into the tub. The scale reads 49.6 pounds.
Then Lisa picks Jay back up and puts him back into his stroller and straps him in until she can weigh the three pillowcase sized bags filled with Jay’s wet and dirty cloth diapers and the one pillowcase sized bag with his onesies in it. Once Lisa weighs the three bags full of Jay’s heavy, wet and dirty cloth diapers, each bag weighs between 32 and 35 pounds. The bag full of his onesies weighs 22 pounds. Lisa takes the last bag off the scale and then sits down at her desk and writes out a ticket with the weights and costs on it.
Lisa: That will be….. $200.
Michelle pulls out the $200 in cash and pays Lisa who then gives Michelle a receipt for the $200 she paid to get Jay, his diapers and onesies washed and dried. Michelle then leans down and looks Jay in the eyes as he sits in his stroller holding one of the bags full of his wet cloth diapers.
Michelle: Now Jay? Lisa is in charge of you until I get back…you better be a GOOD boy! If I hear that you gave miss Lisa here any trouble, then she has special instructions that I wrote down for her to do if you are bad. She WILL spank you if she needs to….understand?
Jay: Yes Mamma…..but…I don’t WANNA be washed! Do…I…HAVE to?
Michelle: YES hon…Lisa here is going to clean you, the diaper you are wearing and all of your nice, comfy diapers for me…be good now…bye-bye…MMMMUAH! Be…good!
Michelle then walks out of the office and then out of the laundromat and leaves.
Lisa comes over to Jay’s stroller and pushes it over to the side near the office and then she leans down and unbuckles Jay from the stroller.
Lisa: Hi there jay, how are you?
Jay: OK miss Lisa. What are you going to do with me?
Lisa: Your mom brought you here to get washed! You’re Getting washed! That’s what we do here. We are a laundry service.
Jay: No, matter what?
Lisa: Yep! No matter what!
Jay: But…I don’t wanna get washed! Do I HAVE to?
Lisa: Those diapers look very dirty and they need to be washed! SUCH a DIRTY diapered boy you are! Ready to get all nice…and clean hon? First, let me take those plastic pants off you…they can’t go into the machine with you. Cherie? Could you help bring some of his stuff to machine one for me? Thanks. (Lisa then grabs Jay by his left hand in her right hand, while Cherie pushes the laundry cart over to machine 1)
Jay: NO! Where are…you…taking me?
Lisa: Over here to….washing machine number 1. let’s go! Come on….time to get clean!
Jay reluctantly is guided and forced over to washing machine number one with Lisa holding his left hand. Lisa opens the door to the side loading washing machine and then she forces Jay to sit down on the edge of the opening then she lays him down inside the tumbler tub.
Lisa: “Time to get into the machine and get washed! Sit down on the edge of the opening here…like that…and now I am going to lay you down inside the washer….there….Now I need you to stay in there while I load all of your diapers and onesies in there…ok?”
Lisa opens the laundry bag full of Jay’s wet and dirty diapers first and then she starts to load the wet and dirty diapers into the machine on top of Jay and the diaper he has on while Cherie gets the next bag ready to load into the washer for Lisa. Lisa leans over to whisper to Lisa as Lisa pauses to listen while holding the almost empty first bag.
Cherie: We are…washing this kid AND his diapers?
Lisa: YEP! You were there…his mom paid us both to get everything she dropped off, washed and dried. We have to do our jobs…ok? Can you go bring the bleach and the ALL Detergent please? THANNNKS……
While Cherie goes and brings the bottle of bleach and the ALL Detergent from the office, Lisa continues to load the rest of Jay’s cloth diapers and the bag of onesies into the machine. Hand tossing the last diaper into the machine, Lisa closes and latches the washing machine door.
Jay: (knocking on the window of the washing machine door) Let me out miss Lisa! I want OUT! I don’t wanna be washed!
Lisa: You're going to be in there for 42 minutes, the first wash will be 15 minutes then the rinse cycle will go for 10 minutes then another wash cycle and then another rinse cycle.
See you in 42 minutes……
Jay: What is that in that white bottle you are pouring into that thing on top of the washer?
Lisa: This? It’s Chlorine bleach.
Jay: What is that in that blue colored little box?
Lisa: it’s ALL Detergent. Now, I am going to set the water temp for hot and it will be 120 degrees or so. Your cloth diapers HAVE to get nice and clean and white…OK? The bleach will get them nice and clean! I will be back in 42 minutes…
Lisa starts the washer and the hot water fills the tumbler. Jay starts to feel the hot water and tries to pound on the door to be let out but Lisa and Cherie have left the machine to start the other loads that they have to also get done there at Excell Laundry. As the tumbler fills up to the half-way mark, the ALL Detergent and the bleach combine with the hot water and once the water level was reached, the washing machine tumbler began to rotate. Jay bounced around along with his wet and dirty diapers and onesies with soap suds and bleach splashing around everywhere. Jay was barely able to reach his arm out towards the window to try to bang on it to be let out. After the first 15 minutes, the dirty wash water drained away and some more hot water gushed inside the tumbler as the rinse cycle started. Jay and the diapers continued to bounce and tumble around in the tumbler while 120 degree to 140 degree hot water gushed into the tumbler for the next ten minutes.. Then the tumbler slowed down and came to a stop for 1 minute while the gushing water stopped and the water level filled the tumbler half way. While the tumbler filled, Jay looked out of the washing machine’s window in the door and saw people doing their laundry as usual. No one was able to hear Jay from inside the washer or they didn’t care. NOT seeing either Lisa or Cherie around, Jay laid back down with a lot of semi clean, heavy, water sodden diapers lay all over him from head to toe. Jay’s hair was matted and sticking up everywhere.
Jay: OUCH! OUCH! It’s HOT! HEY! Let me out! BLUB, BLUB LET…ME…OUT NOW! PLEASE?????? I think my diapers are clean…now!!! Any…one????
Once the water level filled the tumbler half way again, the second wash cycle started.
The diapers, onesies and Jay began to tumble around in the washer again with more bleach and more ALL Detergent suds bubbling and foaming around him. The bleach was STRONG and it burned his eyes and the hot water felt numbing now that he had somehow got used to it. Jay was a little bruised now but his skin was red as though he had a sunburn. Jay’s diapers were becoming whiter and whiter now that the second wash cycle had started. After the second 15 minutes was up, the second wash water began to drain away as more hot rinse water gushed and flowed incessantly into the tumbler for the next ten minutes. As the last rinse cycle came to a stop, the rinse water began to stop gushing and flowing into the tumbler and the spin cycle began. At first…the tumbler started out slowly…as it went faster and faster, building up to full speed, Jay becan to get dizzier and dizzier.
Jay: WHOA!! WHOA!!! WHOA!!!! WHOA!!!!!
The spin cycle lasted for about a minute or two then the tumbler slowed to a stop. Jay was so dizzy that all he could do was lay there in a seemingly drunken-like disoriented state. About five minutes later, both Lisa and Cherie came over to the washing machine and unlatched and then opened the washer. The sudden cold air rush made Jay shiver.
Jay: UH! UH! UH! You came to get me out?
Lisa: Are you alright there…Jay? How was your wash cycle? I see that you and your diapers are nice and clean now. They LOOK all nice and white!
Cherie: Are you going to make sure all of his diapers are still in good shape?
Lisa: OH…yes….I will take a look at each one as I take them out and put them into the laundry cart.
Jay: What is going to happen to me now????
Lisa: You, your diapers and onesies are going into the dryer now.
Jay: How long will I be in THERE?????
Lisa: Oh…about…45 more minutes. I will come to see if you, the diaper you have on and your diapers and onesies are dry enough. If you and they are, you will come out then, if not, then you will go again for another ten more minutes or so. OK, out…you go…time to go into the dryer now.
Jay: Can YOU change me?
Lisa: NO, you and your diaper are going into the dryer now. IF you wet your diaper in the drier, Cherie and I will have to start the wash and drying ALL over! So you don’t need to wet your diaper yet…do you?
Jay: No, I don’t think so.
Lisa: Good!
Lisa Loads Jay and the rest of the diapers and onesies into the laundry cart and then she and Cherie roll the cart over to the largest dryer on the western wall and farthest to the right at the end of the row. Cherie opens the door and then starts to toss the wet, sodden, clean cloth diapers and onesies into the dryer. Then when it came to Jay’s turn to get loaded, Cherie grabbed Jay’s right leg and right arm while Lisa grabbed jay’s left leg and arm. The two lifted Jay up and out of the cart and carried him up and into the tumbler of the dryer where Lisa positioned Jay inside the tumbler on top of the wet diapers and onesies. Then Lisa finishes loading the rest of the heavy, soggy cloth diapers into the dryer and then she asks Cherie to go get the three tennis balls and bring them to the dryer.
Lisa: Hey Cherie?
Cherie: Yes? Can…you go get the…tennis balls for me? Thank you.
While Lisa waits for Cherie to bring the tennis balls, Jay lays there in the dryer still a bit disoriented and recovering from the heavy wash and rinse cycles. Cherie comes over to the open dryer with the three tennis balls.
Cherie: Here ya go.
Jay: HEY! What…are THOSE for???? Are those for me to play with while I am in here?
Lisa: (Laughing a little) NO hun, these three tennis balls will help fluff your diapers up while they dry. They will bounce around in there and fluff your diapers up really nicely. OK, ready to be dried?
Jay: Do I…have a choice?
Lisa: NOPE! Not really!
Lisa closes the door and it latches. Lisa selects the time and then she puts two quarters in and then she hits the start button, holding it down until the drier starts. Lisa watches jay and the diapers being tossed around inside the drier as the drier begins to heat up inside.
Jay starts to sweat a little bit as the dry, hot air blows incessantly into the drier.
Lisa and Cherie walk away and go to fold someone else’s laundry while the load with Jay in it continues to dry. People walk by and a few of the toddlers and little girls look at Jay bouncing around inside of the drier. One little girl walks over to Lisa and tugs on her pants.
Little 10 year old girl: Miss? Miss? How come there is a boy in that thing over there?
Lisa: Because, his mother wanted him to be washed. That’s what we do here.
The little girl goes walking back to the play area and starts playing again.
Inside the dryer, Jay starts to feel hot and stuffy, wishing that his mom would come and take him out of there already. As the dryer tossed jay around and the diapers and his onesies slapped and bounced around inside the dryer tumbler the tennis balls also bounced around and kept hitting him in the head, face, chest, lets, feet and his diaper that he was wearing. All at once, jay was flips over to his tummy and he landed onto one of the dryer’s humps and then he tumbled head over feet again onto his back. This scared Jay a little bit. One of the tennis balls came and hit him on the top of the head. BOP! Then another tennis ball hit him right on his diapered butt as his clean, dry cloth diaper became more and more fluffy.
Forty minutes later, the drier started it’s cool-down cycle. The cycle lasted about five minutes before the dryer stopped completely and the dryer cycle was finished. Jay, his diapers and onesies laid in the drier for another ten minutes until Lisa and Cherie came over to the dryer with the laundry cart and opened the door.
Lisa: Hi there Jay. Are YOU all dry? Here….let me feel……
Lisa reaches into the dryer and feels Jay and his diapers front and back and underneath him.
Lisa: YEP! You’re ready to come out along with the rest of your diapers and onesies.
Jay: I get…to…come…out now? Goodie! Where are you going to take me now?
Lisa: I am going to take you, your diapers and onesies over to my folding table and fold your diapers and onesies. You need to have your plastic pants put on too. Cherie? Could you go put Jay’s plastic pants on for him please or would you rather fold his diapers and onesies while I put his plastic pants on him?
Cherie: I’d….rather fold his diapers.
Lisa: OK, Jay? Come…with me.
Lisa puts jay down onto his feet and walks him over to the folding table. She then grabs Jay’s plastic pants from the office and then opens the waistband elastics before she puts Jay’s right foot into the leg hole and then his left foot into the left leg hole. Then, she pulls the plastic pants up and over Jay’s freshly cleaned cloth diaper.
Lisa: There ya go sweetie. ALL nice and clean! Now, how about I put you back into your stroller for a bit until Cherie and I are done folding all of your onesies and diapers?
Jay: I’m thirsty….can I get some water please?
Lisa: SURE.
Lisa buckles Jay back into his stroller then gets him a bottle of water.
Lisa: (handing Jay the cold bottle of water) there you go sweetie. I am going to roll you over here close to where we are folding so I can keep an eye on you, ok?
After the next 20 minutes of both Cherie and Lisa both folding all of Jay’s onesies and clean cloth diapers, they both put the folded, clean cloth diapers back into the laundry bags and then loaded the bags underneath Jay’s stroller, leaving the last bag set beside jay’s stroller near the office doorway.
Lisa calls Michelle , Jay’s mom to tell her that Jay, his diapers and onesies are done. Michelle tells Lisa that she will be there in 20 minutes. Then Lisa hangs up. Lisa gets up from her office chair to tell Jay when his mom is coming.
Lisa: (coming over to Jay with a comb) Jay? Your mom will be here in 20 minutes. Here…let me comb your hair so that you look neat. You look SO nice and c…l…ean????? Maybe your mom should bring you by once a week so we can get you all nice and cleaned up…huh? There! Your mom will love how nice and clean you are baby. Your mom will be here shortly…ok?
Jay drinks the entire bottle of water and soon falls asleep, weary from his washing and drying. Michelle, Jay’s mom comes and picks Jay, his diapers and onesies up and takes him home, satisfied about how clean jay, his diapers and onesies turned out. Michelle said she would bring Jay back again in a week or two. Jay and his mom then left.
It was now about 1:45 and Lisa and Cherie were about to leave work for the day. Both Lisa and Cherie talked about their first time experience washing Jay, his diapers and onesies before they both left to go home for the day.
Want more of this story? Go down to Chapter two:
Chapter Two:
Washed Then Thrown Away.
Two days later, on a cool, cloudy Friday morning at 10:30 am, a mother came in holding her wet, thickly cloth-diapered special needs boy and wet, thickly-cloth diapered special needs girl’s hands while the mother’s assistant came in right behind them rolling the first bags of the boy’s and girl’s cloth diapers and clothing in each of their strollers. The boy had four pillow case sized laundry bags that weighed about 35 lbs each and three of the four bags had his wet and dirty cloth diapers and some of his pants, shorts, socks as well as his onesies and the girl had five pillow case sized laundry bags filled with her wet and dirty cloth diapers, onesies and a few of her dresses and socks.Gabriella: Hi there. My name is Gabriella.
Lisa: Hi, how can I help you? I am Lisa.
Gabriella: We heard about the great job you did washing Jay when Jay’s mom called us. We wanted to have you wash our two special needs kids too and their clothing and diapers for us. Will you do the same for my two and their diapers, onesies and clothes?
Lisa: Sure. Let me weight the diapers, onesies, and clothing then each of your kids and then we can get them into a couple of our machines.
Lisa picks up Danny and then lays him into the Rubbermaid tub on top of the scale. He weighs in at 52.4 lbs with his wet and heavy cloth diapers on.. Then Lisa takes Danny out of the tub and puts him back down onto his feet before she wrote down Danny’s weight on a ticket. Then it was Tammy’s turn on the scale. Lisa picks Tammy up and lays her down inside the tub on the scale. She weighs in at 47.6 lbs. Then Lisa picks Tammy back up and puts her back down onto her feet. Lisa then weighs each bag and each weigh between 33 and 36 lbs. Lisa writes down Tammy’s weight and the weights of each bag on the ticket. She then totals up the charges on the ticket. Then she hands the ticket to Gabriella. Gabby takes a look at the ticket and then pulls out cash to pay Lisa. Once Gabby paid, Lisa gave Gabby a receipt Then gabby wrote down some special instructions on a piece of paper on what to do with both Danny, Tammy and any of their cloth diapers or clothing if anything gets damaged or ripped or bruised or injured. Lisa looks at the piece of paper.
Lisa: Are…you…SURE you…want me to…do this? If any of their diapers get ripped or torn or get holes in them…I will make sure to throw them away but are you SURE you want me to throw either of them away too if their diapers get ripped or torn in the washer or dryer?
Gabriella: YES…I am absolutely certain! If any of them wet their diapers after being washed or while in the drier, go ahead and rewash them. I added a little extra cash in there for you to…dispose of either of them if their diapers get damaged, ripped, torn or get holes in them, or any of their clothing too. If either of them come out with too many bruises and bumps, go ahead and just throw everything away….ripped or not then call me and tell me ok? I won’t need any of their stuff if you throw any of them away. OH, and….if either of them gives you ANY trouble, don’t be afraid to go ahead and spank them…OK?
Lisa: O….K then…..I will get them right into one of our machines then….I will call you and let you know when they are done and what condition they are in.
Gabriella: Sounds good. Talk soon? Bye now.
Danny and Tammy’s mom leaves as Lisa calls Cherie in to help her get these two loaded into Machines one and two.
Danny: Hey Miss? Why did my mom leave us two here???
Lisa: Well little one, you are getting all washed and cleaned here in a little bit, as soon as my co-worker gets here to help load you two. Wouldn’t you like to get all nice and clean? That’s what we do here Danny. Your mommy left you here with me so that I will wash you and all of your diapers. We are a laundry service.
Danny: You mean….I…am going into….one of those…big…things over there???
Lisa: Yep, you, your dirty diapers, clothes are going into washer number one and your sister will go into washer number 2 right next to the one you’re going into but first, I need to take off your pants, your shirt, your onesie…AND….your plastic pants. Your plastic pats can’t go into the washer with you. I will keep them right here in my office for when you come out of the drier. Your mom wants me to put a disposable diaper over your clean cloth
Chapter Two
Washed Then Thrown Away.
Two days later, on a cool, cloudy Friday morning at 10:30 am, a mother came in holding her wet, thickly cloth-diapered special needs boy and wet, thickly-cloth diapered special needs girl’s hands while the mother’s assistant came in right behind them rolling the first bags of the boy’s and girl’s cloth diapers and clothing in each of their strollers. The boy had four pillow case sized laundry bags that weighed about 35 lbs each and three of the four bags had his wet and dirty cloth diapers and some of his pants, shorts, socks as well as his onesies and the girl had five pillow case sized laundry bags filled with her wet and dirty cloth diapers, onesies and a few of her dresses and socks.
diapers if you make it out with no rips, tears or holes in any of your diapers or clothing. She left me with both of your diaper bags.
Tammy: Where are you going to put ME miss?
Lisa: My co-worker Cherie is going to take YOU…over to washer number 2 with all of YOUR dirty diapers and clothes and you are going to get washed Tammy!
Tammy: But…but…I don’t…wanna get washed! You can’t make me!
Lisa: (Looking at Tammy who had deep stains down her dress) Your dress, your onesie and the diapers you have on, all need to get washed and they WILL be washed! YOU WILL be put into the washer! I don’t care if you want to or not! YES! I WILL make you! That is what I do here! (Lisa said to Tammy rather sternly and matter of factly)
A few minutes later, Cherie walks into the laundromat and clocks in.
Cherie: What do we have?
Lisa: Well, I have these two, the boy and the girl and both of their clothes and diapers to wash. Pick one and take them to one of the big washers. The girl goes into washer number…2 and the boy goes into washer number one. Their mom wants us to throw everything away if any of the diapers, clothing or Danny or Tammy get bruised, too many bumps or their diapers get ripped, torn or damaged.
Cherie: Oh! How sad! Are you going to actually throw them away if any of that happens to them?
Lisa: Yes…I’m afraid I have to…..I mean…I don’t want them…the laundromat certainly doesn’t have any use for them, and they belong to their mom and dad and if they pay me and tell me to throw everything away if any of it gets damaged, then…I am going to.
Cherie: Well, I don’t like it but…if you will take them both out to the dumpster if anything gets damaged, then I will watch one of them while you take the other one out to the dumpster. I will help you take their clothing and diapers out to throw away though.
Lisa: OK then…it’s time to go to the washer now you two…..are you…both ready to be put into the washer and get nice and clean with all of your wet and dirty diapers and clothing?
Both Lisa and Cherie begin to empty all of the laundry bags into one of the laundry carts. Then Cherie puts Tammy into the laundry cart she is about to push over to machine two. Then Cherie begins to push the laundry cart across the laundromat floor (heading southish towards the first row of smaller industrial washers to the second row where Cherie pushed the laundry cart down to machine two and then stopped the cart. Cherie then opened the washer door and then started to grab and toss handfuls of Tammy’s wet and dirty cloth diapers, onesies, and dresses a well as socks into the washer.
As Lisa arrived at Washer number one and opened the washer door, she looked over at Cherie and saw that Tammy still had on what she was brought in.
Lisa: ( to Cherie) Aren’t you going to take her clothes off and make sure that you also take off her plastic pants that she has on under them?
Cherie: She has plastic pants on? OH…ok…then I will make sure that I take them off before I load them….thanks Lisa….
Laundry Day at Excell Laundry
Laundry Day at Excell Laundry
All Washed Up
Chapter one
Inspired by: “Lisa” and “Cherie” who works at Excell Laundry in the Pueblo, CO and those who are into the Laundry Fetish thing at www.fetlife.com
At 11:30 am on a hot Wednesday in Pueblo, Michelle and her special needs child who only weighed 49 lbs at the tender age of 17. Michelle pulls up and parks on the side of the laundromat and parks. She gets out, shuts her door and then gets jay out of his car seat. Then she puts Jay into his stroller before going around to the back of her SUV to get all of Jay’s dirty onesies and wet and dirty cloth diapers. Jay’s mom loads the three large pillowcase sized laundry bags full of Jay’s dirty diapers and one bag full of his onesies underneath Jay’s stroller and the third bag onto Jay’s lap so she can roll Jay and the laundry into the laundromat. Michelle opens the door to the laundromat, and pushes Jay, in his loaded down stroller into the building and up the slight incline before stopping at the office which is on the left as they enter. Standing at the folding counter next to the office doorway is Lisa, folding some large loads of laundry and Cherie is standing in the office.
Lisa: Hi, how are you?
Cherie smiles and winks at Jay and then she waves cutely at him as Jay sits in his stroller
Michelle: Good. I have all of this laundry to drop off and have done.
Lisa: Ok, it’s going to be a dollar per pound and a $10 drop-off fee. Let’s go into the office here and get it all weighed, ok?
Michelle: I have all of my son wearing a wet cloth diaper and plastic pants, his dirty cloth diapers and all of his onesies here that need to be washed very well!
Lisa: Oh, your son is going to need washing too? Ok, I will need to weigh him and the diaper he has on to determine which machine he will go into.
Michelle: Ok Jay, I am going to unbuckle you from your stroller so that Lisa here, can weigh you and your diapers and onesies.
Jay: But…MOMMY! How come I….have to be washed here??? Can’t you wash me at home?
Michelle: No honey, our water is off at home for two days while the city fixes the water pipes in the streets. This is just an easier way to get you AND all of your dirty diapers and onesies all…nice…and clean. I am going to leave you here with Lisa until she gets you and your diapers done.
Jay: Mommy! Don’t go! Please! What is going to happen to me?
Michelle: Lisa will be washing you and your diapers and onesies honey….you will be fine…ok? I will be back when you, your diapers and onesies are all nice and clean…ok?
Lisa picks Jay up and out of his stroller and then puts him into a Rubbermaid tub that is on top of the laundry scale and then lays him into the tub. The scale reads 49.6 pounds.
Then Lisa picks Jay back up and puts him back into his stroller and straps him in until she can weigh the three pillowcase sized bags filled with Jay’s wet and dirty cloth diapers and the one pillowcase sized bag with his onesies in it. Once Lisa weighs the three bags full of Jay’s heavy, wet and dirty cloth diapers, each bag weighs between 32 and 35 pounds. The bag full of his onesies weighs 22 pounds. Lisa takes the last bag off the scale and then sits down at her desk and writes out a ticket with the weights and costs on it.
Lisa: That will be….. $200.
Michelle pulls out the $200 in cash and pays Lisa who then gives Michelle a receipt for the $200 she paid to get Jay, his diapers and onesies washed and dried. Michelle then leans down and looks Jay in the eyes as he sits in his stroller holding one of the bags full of his wet cloth diapers.
Michelle: Now Jay? Lisa is in charge of you until I get back…you better be a GOOD boy! If I hear that you gave miss Lisa here any trouble, then she has special instructions that I wrote down for her to do if you are bad. She WILL spank you if she needs to….understand?
Jay: Yes Mamma…..but…I don’t WANNA be washed! Do…I…HAVE to?
Michelle: YES hon…Lisa here is going to clean you, the diaper you are wearing and all of your nice, comfy diapers for me…be good now…bye-bye…MMMMUAH! Be…good!
Michelle then walks out of the office and then out of the laundromat and leaves.
Lisa comes over to Jay’s stroller and pushes it over to the side near the office and then she leans down and unbuckles Jay from the stroller.
Lisa: Hi there jay, how are you?
Jay: OK miss Lisa. What are you going to do with me?
Lisa: Your mom brought you here to get washed! You’re Getting washed! That’s what we do here. We are a laundry service.
Jay: No, matter what?
Lisa: Yep! No matter what!
Jay: But…I don’t wanna get washed! Do I HAVE to?
Lisa: Those diapers look very dirty and they need to be washed! SUCH a DIRTY diapered boy you are! Ready to get all nice…and clean hon? First, let me take those plastic pants off you…they can’t go into the machine with you. Cherie? Could you help bring some of his stuff to machine one for me? Thanks. (Lisa then grabs Jay by his left hand in her right hand, while Cherie pushes the laundry cart over to machine 1)
Jay: NO! Where are…you…taking me?
Lisa: Over here to….washing machine number 1. let’s go! Come on….time to get clean!
Jay reluctantly is guided and forced over to washing machine number one with Lisa holding his left hand. Lisa opens the door to the side loading washing machine and then she forces Jay to sit down on the edge of the opening then she lays him down inside the tumbler tub.
Lisa: “Time to get into the machine and get washed! Sit down on the edge of the opening here…like that…and now I am going to lay you down inside the washer….there….Now I need you to stay in there while I load all of your diapers and onesies in there…ok?”
Lisa opens the laundry bag full of Jay’s wet and dirty diapers first and then she starts to load the wet and dirty diapers into the machine on top of Jay and the diaper he has on while Cherie gets the next bag ready to load into the washer for Lisa. Lisa leans over to whisper to Lisa as Lisa pauses to listen while holding the almost empty first bag.
Cherie: We are…washing this kid AND his diapers?
Lisa: YEP! You were there…his mom paid us both to get everything she dropped off, washed and dried. We have to do our jobs…ok? Can you go bring the bleach and the ALL Detergent please? THANNNKS……
While Cherie goes and brings the bottle of bleach and the ALL Detergent from the office, Lisa continues to load the rest of Jay’s cloth diapers and the bag of onesies into the machine. Hand tossing the last diaper into the machine, Lisa closes and latches the washing machine door.
Jay: (knocking on the window of the washing machine door) Let me out miss Lisa! I want OUT! I don’t wanna be washed!
Lisa: It’s going to be in there for 42 minutes, the first wash will be 15 minutes then the rinse cycle will go for 10 minutes then another wash cycle and then another rinse cycle.
See you in 42 minutes……
Jay: What is that in that white bottle you are pouring into that thing on top of the washer?
Lisa: This? It’s Chlorine bleach.
Jay: What is that in that blue colored little box?
Lisa: it’s ALL Detergent. Now, I am going to set the water temp for hot and it will be 120 degrees or so. Your cloth diapers HAVE to get nice and clean and white…OK? The bleach will get them nice and clean! I will be back in 42 minutes…
Lisa starts the washer and the hot water fills the tumbler. Jay starts to feel the hot water and tries to pound on the door to be let out but Lisa and Cherie have left the machine to start the other loads that they have to also get done there at Excell Laundry. As the tumbler fills up to the half-way mark, the ALL Detergent and the bleach combine with the hot water and once the water level was reached, the washing machine tumbler began to rotate. Jay bounced around along with his wet and dirty diapers and onesies with soap suds and bleach splashing around everywhere. Jay was barely able to reach his arm out towards the window to try to bang on it to be let out. After the first 15 minutes, the dirty wash water drained away and some more hot water gushed inside the tumbler as the rinse cycle started. Jay and the diapers continued to bounce and tumble around in the tumbler while 120 degree to 140 degree hot water gushed into the tumbler for the next ten minutes.. Then the tumbler slowed down and came to a stop for 1 minute while the gushing water stopped and the water level filled the tumbler half way. While the tumbler filled, Jay looked out of the washing machine’s window in the door and saw people doing their laundry as usual. No one was able to hear Jay from inside the washer or they didn’t care. NOT seeing either Lisa or Cherie around, Jay laid back down with a lot of semi clean, heavy, water sodden diapers lay all over him from head to toe. Jay’s hair was matted and sticking up everywhere.
Jay: OUCH! OUCH! It’s HOT! HEY! Let me out! BLUB, BLUB LET…ME…OUT NOW! PLEASE?????? I think my diapers are clean…now!!! Any…one????
Once the water level filled the tumbler half way again, the second wash cycle started.
The diapers, onesies and Jay began to tumble around in the washer again with more bleach and more ALL Detergent suds bubbling and foaming around him. The bleach was STRONG and it burned his eyes and the hot water felt numbing now that he had somehow got used to it. Jay was a little bruised now but his skin was red as though he had a sunburn. Jay’s diapers were becoming whiter and whiter now that the second wash cycle had started. After the second 15 minutes was up, the second wash water began to drain away as more hot rinse water gushed and flowed incessantly into the tumbler for the next ten minutes. As the last rinse cycle came to a stop, the rinse water began to stop gushing and flowing into the tumbler and the spin cycle began. At first…the tumbler started out slowly…as it went faster and faster, building up to full speed, Jay becan to get dizzier and dizzier.
Jay: WHOA!! WHOA!!! WHOA!!!! WHOA!!!!!
The spin cycle lasted for about a minute or two then the tumbler slowed to a stop. Jay was so dizzy that all he could do was lay there in a seemingly drunken-like disoriented state. About five minutes later, both Lisa and Cherie came over to the washing machine and unlatched and then opened the washer. The sudden cold air rush made Jay shiver.
Jay: UH! UH! UH! You came to get me out?
Lisa: Are you alright there…Jay? How was your wash cycle? I see that you and your diapers are nice and clean now. They LOOK all nice and white!
Cherie: Are you going to make sure all of his diapers are still in good shape?
Lisa: OH…yes….I will take a look at each one as I take them out and put them into the laundry cart.
Jay: What is going to happen to me now????
Lisa: You, your diapers and onesies are going into the dryer now.
Jay: How long will I be in THERE?????
Lisa: Oh…about…45 more minutes. I will come to see if you, the diaper you have on and your diapers and onesies are dry enough. If you and they are, you will come out then, if not, then you will go again for another ten more minutes or so. OK, out…you go…time to go into the dryer now.
Jay: Can YOU change me?
Lisa: NO, you and your diaper are going into the dryer now. IF you wet your diaper in the drier, Cherie and I will have to start the wash and drying ALL over! So you don’t need to wet your diaper yet…do you?
Jay: No, I don’t think so.
Lisa: Good!
Lisa Loads Jay and the rest of the diapers and onesies into the laundry cart and then she and Cherie roll the cart over to the largest dryer on the western wall and farthest to the right at the end of the row. Cherie opens the door and then starts to toss the wet, sodden, clean cloth diapers and onesies into the dryer. Then when it came to Jay’s turn to get loaded, Cherie grabbed Jay’s right leg and right arm while Lisa grabbed jay’s left leg and arm. The two lifted Jay up and out of the cart and carried him up and into the tumbler of the dryer where Lisa positioned Jay inside the tumbler on top of the wet diapers and onesies. Then Lisa finishes loading the rest of the heavy, soggy cloth diapers into the dryer and then she asks Cherie to go get the three tennis balls and bring them to the dryer.
Lisa: Hey Cherie?
Cherie: Yes? Can…you go get the…tennis balls for me? Thank you.
While Lisa waits for Cherie to bring the tennis balls, Jay lays there in the dryer still a bit disoriented and recovering from the heavy wash and rinse cycles. Cherie comes over to the open dryer with the three tennis balls.
Cherie: Here ya go.
Jay: HEY! What…are THOSE for???? Are those for me to play with while I am in here?
Lisa: (Laughing a little) NO hun, these three tennis balls will help fluff your diapers up while they dry. They will bounce around in there and fluff your diapers up really nicely. OK, ready to be dried?
Jay: Do I…have a choice?
Lisa: NOPE! Not really!
Lisa closes the door and it latches. Lisa selects the time and then she puts two quarters in and then she hits the start button, holding it down until the drier starts. Lisa watches jay and the diapers being tossed around inside the drier as the drier begins to heat up inside.
Jay starts to sweat a little bit as the dry, hot air blows incessantly into the drier.
Lisa and Cherie walk away and go to fold someone else’s laundry while the load with Jay in it continues to dry. People walk by and a few of the toddlers and little girls look at Jay bouncing around inside of the drier. One little girl walks over to Lisa and tugs on her pants.
Little 10 year old girl: Miss? Miss? How come there is a boy in that thing over there?
Lisa: Because, his mother wanted him to be washed. That’s what we do here.
The little girl goes walking back to the play area and starts playing again.
Inside the dryer, Jay starts to feel hot and stuffy, wishing that his mom would come and take him out of there already. As the dryer tossed jay around and the diapers and his onesies slapped and bounced around inside the dryer tumbler the tennis balls also bounced around and kept hitting him in the head, face, chest, lets, feet and his diaper that he was wearing. All at once, jay was flips over to his tummy and he landed onto one of the dryer’s humps and then he tumbled head over feet again onto his back. This scared Jay a little bit. One of the tennis balls came and hit him on the top of the head. BOP! Then another tennis ball hit him right on his diapered butt as his clean, dry cloth diaper became more and more fluffy.
Forty minutes later, the drier started it’s cool-down cycle. The cycle lasted about five minutes before the dryer stopped completely and the dryer cycle was finished. Jay, his diapers and onesies laid in the drier for another ten minutes until Lisa and Cherie came over to the dryer with the laundry cart and opened the door.
Lisa: Hi there Jay. Are YOU all dry? Here….let me feel……
Lisa reaches into the dryer and feels Jay and his diapers front and back and underneath him.
Lisa: YEP! You’re ready to come out along with the rest of your diapers and onesies.
Jay: I get…to…come…out now? Goodie! Where are you going to take me now?
Lisa: I am going to take you, your diapers and onesies over to my folding table and fold your diapers and onesies. You need to have your plastic pants put on too. Cherie? Could you go put Jay’s plastic pants on for him please or would you rather fold his diapers and onesies while I put his plastic pants on him?
Cherie: I’d….rather fold his diapers.
Lisa: OK, Jay? Come…with me.
Lisa puts jay down onto his feet and walks him over to the folding table. She then grabs Jay’s plastic pants from the office and then opens the waistband elastics before she puts Jay’s right foot into the leg hole and then his left foot into the left leg hole. Then, she pulls the plastic pants up and over Jay’s freshly cleaned cloth diaper.
Lisa: There ya go sweetie. ALL nice and clean! Now, how about I put you back into your stroller for a bit until Cherie and I are done folding all of your onesies and diapers?
Jay: I’m thirsty….can I get some water please?
Lisa: SURE.
Lisa buckles Jay back into his stroller then gets him a bottle of water.
Lisa: (handing Jay the cold bottle of water) there you go sweetie. I am going to roll you over here close to where we are folding so I can keep an eye on you, ok?
After the next 20 minutes of both Cherie and Lisa both folding all of Jay’s onesies and clean cloth diapers, they both put the folded, clean cloth diapers back into the laundry bags and then loaded the bags underneath Jay’s stroller, leaving the last bag set beside jay’s stroller near the office doorway.
Lisa calls Michelle , Jay’s mom to tell her that Jay, his diapers and onesies are done. Michelle tells Lisa that she will be there in 20 minutes. Then Lisa hangs up. Lisa gets up from her office chair to tell Jay when his mom is coming.
Lisa: (coming over to Jay with a comb) Jay? Your mom will be here in 20 minutes. Here…let me comb your hair so that you look neat. You look SO nice and c…l…ean????? Maybe your mom should bring you by once a week so we can get you all nice and cleaned up…huh? There! Your mom will love how nice and clean you are baby. Your mom will be here shortly…ok?
Jay drinks the entire bottle of water and soon falls asleep, weary from his washing and drying. Michelle, Jay’s mom comes and picks Jay, his diapers and onesies up and takes him home, satisfied about how clean jay, his diapers and onesies turned out. Michelle said she would bring Jay back again in a week or two. Jay and his mom then left.
It was now about 1:45 and Lisa and Cherie were about to leave work for the day. Both Lisa and Cherie talked about their first time experience washing Jay, his diapers and onesies before they both left to go home for the day.
Want more of this story? Go down to Chapter two:
Chapter Two
Washed Then Thrown Away.
Two days later, on a cool, cloudy Friday morning at 10:30 am, a mother came in holding her wet, thickly cloth-diapered special needs boy and wet, thickly-cloth diapered special needs girl’s hands while the mother’s assistant came in right behind them rolling the first bags of the boy’s and girl’s cloth diapers and clothing in each of their strollers. The boy had four pillow case sized laundry bags that weighed about 35 lbs each and three of the four bags had his wet and dirty cloth diapers and some of his pants, shorts, socks as well as his onesies and the girl had five pillow case sized laundry bags filled with her wet and dirty cloth diapers, onesies and a few of her dresses and socks.
Gabriella: Hi there. My name is Gabriella.
Lisa: Hi, how can I help you? I am Lisa.
Gabriella: We heard about the great job you did washing Jay when Jay’s mom called us. We wanted to have you wash our two special needs kids too and their clothing and diapers for us. Will you do the same for my two and their diapers, onesies and clothes?
Lisa: Sure. Let me weight the diapers, onesies, and clothing then each of your kids and then we can get them into a couple of our machines.
Lisa picks up Danny and then lays him into the Rubbermaid tub on top of the scale. He weighs in at 52.4 lbs with his wet and heavy cloth diapers on.. Then Lisa takes Danny out of the tub and puts him back down onto his feet before she wrote down Danny’s weight on a ticket. Then it was Tammy’s turn on the scale. Lisa picks Tammy up and lays her down inside the tub on the scale. She weighs in at 47.6 lbs. Then Lisa picks Tammy back up and puts her back down onto her feet. Lisa then weighs each bag and each weigh between 33 and 36 lbs. Lisa writes down Tammy’s weight and the weights of each bag on the ticket. She then totals up the charges on the ticket. Then she hands the ticket to Gabriella. Gabby takes a look at the ticket and then pulls out cash to pay Lisa. Once Gabby paid, Lisa gave Gabby a receipt Then gabby wrote down some special instructions on a piece of paper on what to do with both Danny, Tammy and any of their cloth diapers or clothing if anything gets damaged or ripped or bruised or injured. Lisa looks at the piece of paper.
Lisa: Are…you…SURE you…want me to…do this? If any of their diapers get ripped or torn or get holes in them…I will make sure to throw them away but are you SURE you want me to throw either of them away too if their diapers get ripped or torn in the washer or dryer?
Gabriella: YES…I am absolutely certain! If any of them wet their diapers after being washed or while in the drier, go ahead and rewash them. I added a little extra cash in there for you to…dispose of either of them if their diapers get damaged, ripped, torn or get holes in them, or any of their clothing too. If either of them come out with too many bruises and bumps, go ahead and just throw everything away….ripped or not then call me and tell me ok? I won’t need any of their stuff if you throw any of them away. OH, and….if either of them gives you ANY trouble, don’t be afraid to go ahead and spank them…OK?
Lisa: O….K then…..I will get them right into one of our machines then….I will call you and let you know when they are done and what condition they are in.
Gabriella: Sounds good. Talk soon? Bye now.
Danny and Tammy’s mom leaves as Lisa calls Cherie in to help her get these two loaded into Machines one and two.
Danny: Hey Miss? Why did my mom leave us two here???
Lisa: Well little one, you are getting all washed and cleaned here in a little bit, as soon as my co-worker gets here to help load you two. Wouldn’t you like to get all nice and clean? That’s what we do here Danny. Your mommy left you here with me so that I will wash you and all of your diapers. We are a laundry service.
Danny: You mean….I…am going into….one of those…big…things over there???
Lisa: Yep, you, your dirty diapers, clothes are going into washer number one and your sister will go into washer number 2 right next to the one you’re going into but first, I need to take off your pants, your shirt, your onesie…AND….your plastic pants. Your plastic pats can’t go into the washer with you. I will keep them right here in my office for when you come out of the drier. Your mom wants me to put a disposable diaper over your clean cloth diapers if you make it out with no rips, tears or holes in any of your diapers or clothing. She left me with both of your diaper bags.
Tammy: Where are you going to put ME miss?
Lisa: My co-worker Cherie is going to take YOU…over to washer number 2 with all of YOUR dirty diapers and clothes and you are going to get washed Tammy!
Tammy: But…but…I don’t…wanna get washed! You can’t make me!
Lisa: (Looking at Tammy who had deep stains down her dress) Your dress, your onesie and the diapers you have on, all need to get washed and they WILL be washed! YOU WILL be put into the washer! I don’t care if you want to or not! YES! I WILL make you! That is what I do here! (Lisa said to Tammy rather sternly and matter of factly)
A few minutes later, Cherie walks into the laundromat and clocks in.
Cherie: What do we have?
Lisa: Well, I have these two, the boy and the girl and both of their clothes and diapers to wash. Pick one and take them to one of the big washers. The girl goes into washer number…2 and the boy goes into washer number one. Their mom wants us to throw everything away if any of the diapers, clothing or Danny or Tammy get bruised, too many bumps or their diapers get ripped, torn or damaged.
Cherie: Oh! How sad! Are you going to actually throw them away if any of that happens to them?
Lisa: Yes…I’m afraid I have to…..I mean…I don’t want them…the laundromat certainly doesn’t have any use for them, and they belong to their mom and dad and if they pay me and tell me to throw everything away if any of it gets damaged, then…I am going to.
Cherie: Well, I don’t like it but…if you will take them both out to the dumpster if anything gets damaged, then I will watch one of them while you take the other one out to the dumpster. I will help you take their clothing and diapers out to throw away though.
Lisa: OK then…it’s time to go to the washer now you two…..are you…both ready to be put into the washer and get nice and clean with all of your wet and dirty diapers and clothing?
Both Lisa and Cherie begin to empty all of the laundry bags into one of the laundry carts. Then Cherie puts Tammy into the laundry cart she is about to push over to machine two. Then Cherie begins to push the laundry cart across the laundromat floor (heading southish towards the first row of smaller industrial washers to the second row where Cherie pushed the laundry cart down to machine two and then stopped the cart. Cherie then opened the washer door and then started to grab and toss handfuls of Tammy’s wet and dirty cloth diapers, onesies, and dresses a well as socks into the washer.
As Lisa arrived at Washer number one and opened the washer door, she looked over at Cherie and saw that Tammy still had on what she was brought in.
Lisa: ( to Cherie) Aren’t you going to take her clothes off and make sure that you also take off her plastic pants that she has on under them?
Cherie: She has plastic pants on? OH…ok…then I will make sure that I take them off before I load them….thanks Lisa….
Lisa: No problem.
Cherie: (To Tammy as she puts Tammy back onto her feet to take off her clothes and strip her down to just her cloth diapers) Tammy honey….I need to take all of your clothes off now and then I need to take off those plastic pants you have on…then I will load you into the washer and once I get the rest of your dirty diapers loaded in there, I will close the door and lock it.
Tammy: What are you going to do with the rest of my clothes???
Cherie: I will put them into a different washer. We wash diapers by themselves and clothes separately.
Tammy: Why do I have to go into the washer miss? I don’t wanna!
Cherie: Well little girl….I don’t care WHAT you WANNA do…you…ARE…going into that washer if you want to…..or not! Now don’t struggle with me or your cloth diapers might get ripped or torn! THEN…I will have to get my co-worker over there, miss Lisa, to have to throw you and ALL…..of your diapers and clothing away!
Tammy: What is that in the white bottle and what is that in the little box you have there?
Cherie: Oh those? That is bleach in the bottle and this…little box is ALL laundry detergent. Both of these are going to be used to wash you and your dirty diapers.
Tammy: Will that stuff….hurt me or my diapers?
Cherie: Yea…..the laundry soap and bleach will hurt you some…but…it will clean and whiten your diapers and that is what your momma wanted and paid us to do for her.
Ok, let me get you out of that dirty dress first, then I will take care of that wet and dirty onesie and THEN…I will need to take off your plastic pants….
As Cherie strips Tammy down to just her wet cloth diapers, Lisa is busy stripping Danny down to just HIS wet cloth diapers and getting ready to load him into the washer. Once Lisa takes off Danny’s plastic pants, she discovers that Danny had reddish and pinkish stains down the front of his cloth diaper.
Lisa: Danny, Danny, Danny! Looks like I need to walk you over to get the spray pre-treater bottle so I can spray some of it onto your diapers and you too…you have the same kind of stains that your cloth diapers have, down your chest too! I hope they come out….I REALLY don’t want to end up having to throw you OR your sister away….
Danny: Where would you throw my sister or I away to?
Lisa: Into the trash of course. Your mother wants us to throw either or both of you away if you don’t come clean, come out of the wash with too many bumps or bruises, or if your diaper that you have on has any rips or tears in it and she also wants us to throw away any of your diapers and clothing that have rips or tears or something wrong with them.
It is looking like you might end up having to get thrown away in the trash dumpster outside in the back if I can’t get the stains out. I will try my hardest to get the stains out…even if I have to wash and dry you twice…..if the stains don‘t come out…I guess it’s time to go into the trash then for you and your diapers.
Danny: But….BUT…..I don’t wanna be thrown away! Do I have to be thrown away?
Lisa: Unfortunately, yes….I have to do…what you mother paid us to do…..sorry kid-O Ok Danny, time to get into the washing machine…..ok, sit down on the edge of the opening…like this… (Forces Danny to sit down on the edge of the opening)
Now lay back slowly…ok…good…now I’ll get your feet and legs in…there…good…now….I’m going to finish loading the rest of your dirty diapers in there…..
Danny: Why do I have to have all of my wet and dirty diapers tossed in on top of me? HEY! That’s my…FACE!!!!!
Danny: !!!!!!!!
Danny gets two more heavy, wet cloth diapers tossed in on top of his face and head while four more land on his chest, on top of the cloth diaper he already has on and some on top of his legs and feet. The smell of his wetness was strong inside the washer as Lisa continued to load it.
Danny: Miss? Oh….Miss…It stinks in here!!!
Lisa: Don’t worry honey…..it won’t stink in there for too much longer….not after I start the washer it won’t…..
Lisa finishes loading the rest of Danny’s cloth diapers into the washer and then she closes and locks the washer door. As Lisa grabs the white bottle of bleach, Danny wonders what it is that she is pouring into the machine.
Danny: Hey…Miss? What is that….that you are putting into there?
Lisa: It’s Chlorine bleach hon……it’s going to make your diapers nice and white.
Then Lisa grabs the little box of ALL powdered laundry detergent and opens it.
Danny: now…what is THAT in that little box that you are pouring in there?
Lisa: Oh….THIS??? it’s the laundry soap that is going to clean you and your diapers….
Once Lisa finishes pouring the ALL laundry soap into the powdered soap compartment on top of the washer, she comes over to the front of the washer and stands there while she selects the water temp and then the cycle. She selects the hot water temp then she selects the cycle with the extra wash and rinse cycles. Before she started the cycles, she leaned down to listen to what Danny was saying.
Danny: How long am I going to be IN here miss?
Lisa: You will be in there for about 52 minutes. 15 minutes for the first wash, then 10 minutes for the first rinse and then…another 15 minutes for the second wash and then another 10 minutes for the second rinse and then the spin cycle for 2 minutes. Then…I will come and take you out and get you and everything into the dryer once the washer stops. OK…It’s washer time….
Lisa starts the washer and as she walks away, the washer begins to fill up with 120 degree hot water. Danny, sitting inside the washer lays back against the tumbler trying not to get any of the hot water on his face. As the water fills up the tumbler about half-way, the washer starts to tumble around and around, tossing Danny and his dirty diapers around and around as the soap suds foam, sizzle, pop and lather up as the diapers and Danny are tossed around more and more.
Danny seems to be having fun inside the washer, getting tossed around and around, bumping against the tumbler humps from time to time. Little did Danny know it, but his diaper had been snagged and then it got torn badly as the tumbler tossed him around inside. Danny’s diapers were rather old and were in need of being replaced anyhow…but his mother couldn’t afford to replace them all at the same time, maybe she COULD afford to replace one diaper at a time. That wasn’t good enough though because by the time she replaces one, another one was ready to be thrown away and replaced. Two layers of the six layers of diaper cloth were ripped and torn now and were hanging down and flopping around as Danny tossed, flipped around inside the washer tumbler. Six more of the three dozen cloth diapers also got ripped and torn as well as the threads that were holding the layers of cloth in the wings together began to fray and unravel as they were tossed around in the washer. After the first 15 minute wash cycle, the first rinse cycle began. More hot water began to rush and gush into the washer’s tumbler.
Danny: OUCH! It’s…HOT! OUCH! Make it…STOP! PLEASE! Blub! Blub! BLUB! When is this going to be…OVER????
EROTICA · 28 MIN READ
Laundry Day at Excell Laundry
Laundry Day at Excell Laundry
All Washed Up
Chapter one
Inspired by: “Lisa” and “Cherie” who works at Excell Laundry in the Pueblo, CO and those who are into the Laundry Fetish thing at www.fetlife.com
At 11:30 am on a hot Wednesday in Pueblo, Michelle and her special needs child who only weighed 49 lbs at the tender age of 17. Michelle pulls up and parks on the side of the laundromat and parks. She gets out, shuts her door and then gets jay out of his car seat. Then she puts Jay into his stroller before going around to the back of her SUV to get all of Jay’s dirty onesies and wet and dirty cloth diapers. Jay’s mom loads the three large pillowcase sized laundry bags full of Jay’s dirty diapers and one bag full of his onesies underneath Jay’s stroller and the third bag onto Jay’s lap so she can roll Jay and the laundry into the laundromat. Michelle opens the door to the laundromat, and pushes Jay, in his loaded down stroller into the building and up the slight incline before stopping at the office which is on the left as they enter. Standing at the folding counter next to the office doorway is Lisa, folding some large loads of laundry and Cherie is standing in the office.
Lisa: Hi, how are you?
Cherie smiles and winks at Jay and then she waves cutely at him as Jay sits in his stroller
Michelle: Good. I have all of this laundry to drop off and have done.
Lisa: Ok, it’s going to be a dollar per pound and a $10 drop-off fee. Let’s go into the office here and get it all weighed, ok?
Michelle: I have all of my son wearing a wet cloth diaper and plastic pants, his dirty cloth diapers and all of his onesies here that need to be washed very well!
Lisa: Oh, your son is going to need washing too? Ok, I will need to weigh him and the diaper he has on to determine which machine he will go into.
Michelle: Ok Jay, I am going to unbuckle you from your stroller so that Lisa here, can weigh you and your diapers and onesies.
Jay: But…MOMMY! How come I….have to be washed here??? Can’t you wash me at home?
Michelle: No honey, our water is off at home for two days while the city fixes the water pipes in the streets. This is just an easier way to get you AND all of your dirty diapers and onesies all…nice…and clean. I am going to leave you here with Lisa until she gets you and your diapers done.
Jay: Mommy! Don’t go! Please! What is going to happen to me?
Michelle: Lisa will be washing you and your diapers and onesies honey….you will be fine…ok? I will be back when you, your diapers and onesies are all nice and clean…ok?
Lisa picks Jay up and out of his stroller and then puts him into a Rubbermaid tub that is on top of the laundry scale and then lays him into the tub. The scale reads 49.6 pounds.
Then Lisa picks Jay back up and puts him back into his stroller and straps him in until she can weigh the three pillowcase sized bags filled with Jay’s wet and dirty cloth diapers and the one pillowcase sized bag with his onesies in it. Once Lisa weighs the three bags full of Jay’s heavy, wet and dirty cloth diapers, each bag weighs between 32 and 35 pounds. The bag full of his onesies weighs 22 pounds. Lisa takes the last bag off the scale and then sits down at her desk and writes out a ticket with the weights and costs on it.
Lisa: That will be….. $200.
Michelle pulls out the $200 in cash and pays Lisa who then gives Michelle a receipt for the $200 she paid to get Jay, his diapers and onesies washed and dried. Michelle then leans down and looks Jay in the eyes as he sits in his stroller holding one of the bags full of his wet cloth diapers.
Michelle: Now Jay? Lisa is in charge of you until I get back…you better be a GOOD boy! If I hear that you gave miss Lisa here any trouble, then she has special instructions that I wrote down for her to do if you are bad. She WILL spank you if she needs to….understand?
Jay: Yes Mamma…..but…I don’t WANNA be washed! Do…I…HAVE to?
Michelle: YES hon…Lisa here is going to clean you, the diaper you are wearing and all of your nice, comfy diapers for me…be good now…bye-bye…MMMMUAH! Be…good!
Michelle then walks out of the office and then out of the laundromat and leaves.
Lisa comes over to Jay’s stroller and pushes it over to the side near the office and then she leans down and unbuckles Jay from the stroller.
Lisa: Hi there jay, how are you?
Jay: OK miss Lisa. What are you going to do with me?
Lisa: Your mom brought you here to get washed! You’re Getting washed! That’s what we do here. We are a laundry service.
Jay: No, matter what?
Lisa: Yep! No matter what!
Jay: But…I don’t wanna get washed! Do I HAVE to?
Lisa: Those diapers look very dirty and they need to be washed! SUCH a DIRTY diapered boy you are! Ready to get all nice…and clean hon? First, let me take those plastic pants off you…they can’t go into the machine with you. Cherie? Could you help bring some of his stuff to machine one for me? Thanks. (Lisa then grabs Jay by his left hand in her right hand, while Cherie pushes the laundry cart over to machine 1)
Jay: NO! Where are…you…taking me?
Lisa: Over here to….washing machine number 1. let’s go! Come on….time to get clean!
Jay reluctantly is guided and forced over to washing machine number one with Lisa holding his left hand. Lisa opens the door to the side loading washing machine and then she forces Jay to sit down on the edge of the opening then she lays him down inside the tumbler tub.
Lisa: “Time to get into the machine and get washed! Sit down on the edge of the opening here…like that…and now I am going to lay you down inside the washer….there….Now I need you to stay in there while I load all of your diapers and onesies in there…ok?”
Lisa opens the laundry bag full of Jay’s wet and dirty diapers first and then she starts to load the wet and dirty diapers into the machine on top of Jay and the diaper he has on while Cherie gets the next bag ready to load into the washer for Lisa. Lisa leans over to whisper to Lisa as Lisa pauses to listen while holding the almost empty first bag.
Cherie: We are…washing this kid AND his diapers?
Lisa: YEP! You were there…his mom paid us both to get everything she dropped off, washed and dried. We have to do our jobs…ok? Can you go bring the bleach and the ALL Detergent please? THANNNKS……
While Cherie goes and brings the bottle of bleach and the ALL Detergent from the office, Lisa continues to load the rest of Jay’s cloth diapers and the bag of onesies into the machine. Hand tossing the last diaper into the machine, Lisa closes and latches the washing machine door.
Jay: (knocking on the window of the washing machine door) Let me out miss Lisa! I want OUT! I don’t wanna be washed!
Lisa: It’s going to be in there for 42 minutes, the first wash will be 15 minutes then the rinse cycle will go for 10 minutes then another wash cycle and then another rinse cycle.
See you in 42 minutes……
Jay: What is that in that white bottle you are pouring into that thing on top of the washer?
Lisa: This? It’s Chlorine bleach.
Jay: What is that in that blue colored little box?
Lisa: it’s ALL Detergent. Now, I am going to set the water temp for hot and it will be 120 degrees or so. Your cloth diapers HAVE to get nice and clean and white…OK? The bleach will get them nice and clean! I will be back in 42 minutes…
Lisa starts the washer and the hot water fills the tumbler. Jay starts to feel the hot water and tries to pound on the door to be let out but Lisa and Cherie have left the machine to start the other loads that they have to also get done there at Excell Laundry. As the tumbler fills up to the half-way mark, the ALL Detergent and the bleach combine with the hot water and once the water level was reached, the washing machine tumbler began to rotate. Jay bounced around along with his wet and dirty diapers and onesies with soap suds and bleach splashing around everywhere. Jay was barely able to reach his arm out towards the window to try to bang on it to be let out. After the first 15 minutes, the dirty wash water drained away and some more hot water gushed inside the tumbler as the rinse cycle started. Jay and the diapers continued to bounce and tumble around in the tumbler while 120 degree to 140 degree hot water gushed into the tumbler for the next ten minutes.. Then the tumbler slowed down and came to a stop for 1 minute while the gushing water stopped and the water level filled the tumbler half way. While the tumbler filled, Jay looked out of the washing machine’s window in the door and saw people doing their laundry as usual. No one was able to hear Jay from inside the washer or they didn’t care. NOT seeing either Lisa or Cherie around, Jay laid back down with a lot of semi clean, heavy, water sodden diapers lay all over him from head to toe. Jay’s hair was matted and sticking up everywhere.
Jay: OUCH! OUCH! It’s HOT! HEY! Let me out! BLUB, BLUB LET…ME…OUT NOW! PLEASE?????? I think my diapers are clean…now!!! Any…one????
Once the water level filled the tumbler half way again, the second wash cycle started.
The diapers, onesies and Jay began to tumble around in the washer again with more bleach and more ALL Detergent suds bubbling and foaming around him. The bleach was STRONG and it burned his eyes and the hot water felt numbing now that he had somehow got used to it. Jay was a little bruised now but his skin was red as though he had a sunburn. Jay’s diapers were becoming whiter and whiter now that the second wash cycle had started. After the second 15 minutes was up, the second wash water began to drain away as more hot rinse water gushed and flowed incessantly into the tumbler for the next ten minutes. As the last rinse cycle came to a stop, the rinse water began to stop gushing and flowing into the tumbler and the spin cycle began. At first…the tumbler started out slowly…as it went faster and faster, building up to full speed, Jay becan to get dizzier and dizzier.
Jay: WHOA!! WHOA!!! WHOA!!!! WHOA!!!!!
The spin cycle lasted for about a minute or two then the tumbler slowed to a stop. Jay was so dizzy that all he could do was lay there in a seemingly drunken-like disoriented state. About five minutes later, both Lisa and Cherie came over to the washing machine and unlatched and then opened the washer. The sudden cold air rush made Jay shiver.
Jay: UH! UH! UH! You came to get me out?
Lisa: Are you alright there…Jay? How was your wash cycle? I see that you and your diapers are nice and clean now. They LOOK all nice and white!
Cherie: Are you going to make sure all of his diapers are still in good shape?
Lisa: OH…yes….I will take a look at each one as I take them out and put them into the laundry cart.
Jay: What is going to happen to me now????
Lisa: You, your diapers and onesies are going into the dryer now.
Jay: How long will I be in THERE?????
Lisa: Oh…about…45 more minutes. I will come to see if you, the diaper you have on and your diapers and onesies are dry enough. If you and they are, you will come out then, if not, then you will go again for another ten more minutes or so. OK, out…you go…time to go into the dryer now.
Jay: Can YOU change me?
Lisa: NO, you and your diaper are going into the dryer now. IF you wet your diaper in the drier, Cherie and I will have to start the wash and drying ALL over! So you don’t need to wet your diaper yet…do you?
Jay: No, I don’t think so.
Lisa: Good!
Lisa Loads Jay and the rest of the diapers and onesies into the laundry cart and then she and Cherie roll the cart over to the largest dryer on the western wall and farthest to the right at the end of the row. Cherie opens the door and then starts to toss the wet, sodden, clean cloth diapers and onesies into the dryer. Then when it came to Jay’s turn to get loaded, Cherie grabbed Jay’s right leg and right arm while Lisa grabbed jay’s left leg and arm. The two lifted Jay up and out of the cart and carried him up and into the tumbler of the dryer where Lisa positioned Jay inside the tumbler on top of the wet diapers and onesies. Then Lisa finishes loading the rest of the heavy, soggy cloth diapers into the dryer and then she asks Cherie to go get the three tennis balls and bring them to the dryer.
Lisa: Hey Cherie?
Cherie: Yes? Can…you go get the…tennis balls for me? Thank you.
While Lisa waits for Cherie to bring the tennis balls, Jay lays there in the dryer still a bit disoriented and recovering from the heavy wash and rinse cycles. Cherie comes over to the open dryer with the three tennis balls.
Cherie: Here ya go.
Jay: HEY! What…are THOSE for???? Are those for me to play with while I am in here?
Lisa: (Laughing a little) NO hun, these three tennis balls will help fluff your diapers up while they dry. They will bounce around in there and fluff your diapers up really nicely. OK, ready to be dried?
Jay: Do I…have a choice?
Lisa: NOPE! Not really!
Lisa closes the door and it latches. Lisa selects the time and then she puts two quarters in and then she hits the start button, holding it down until the drier starts. Lisa watches jay and the diapers being tossed around inside the drier as the drier begins to heat up inside.
Jay starts to sweat a little bit as the dry, hot air blows incessantly into the drier.
Lisa and Cherie walk away and go to fold someone else’s laundry while the load with Jay in it continues to dry. People walk by and a few of the toddlers and little girls look at Jay bouncing around inside of the drier. One little girl walks over to Lisa and tugs on her pants.
Little 10 year old girl: Miss? Miss? How come there is a boy in that thing over there?
Lisa: Because, his mother wanted him to be washed. That’s what we do here.
The little girl goes walking back to the play area and starts playing again.
Inside the dryer, Jay starts to feel hot and stuffy, wishing that his mom would come and take him out of there already. As the dryer tossed jay around and the diapers and his onesies slapped and bounced around inside the dryer tumbler the tennis balls also bounced around and kept hitting him in the head, face, chest, lets, feet and his diaper that he was wearing. All at once, jay was flips over to his tummy and he landed onto one of the dryer’s humps and then he tumbled head over feet again onto his back. This scared Jay a little bit. One of the tennis balls came and hit him on the top of the head. BOP! Then another tennis ball hit him right on his diapered butt as his clean, dry cloth diaper became more and more fluffy.
Forty minutes later, the drier started it’s cool-down cycle. The cycle lasted about five minutes before the dryer stopped completely and the dryer cycle was finished. Jay, his diapers and onesies laid in the drier for another ten minutes until Lisa and Cherie came over to the dryer with the laundry cart and opened the door.
Lisa: Hi there Jay. Are YOU all dry? Here….let me feel……
Lisa reaches into the dryer and feels Jay and his diapers front and back and underneath him.
Lisa: YEP! You’re ready to come out along with the rest of your diapers and onesies.
Jay: I get…to…come…out now? Goodie! Where are you going to take me now?
Lisa: I am going to take you, your diapers and onesies over to my folding table and fold your diapers and onesies. You need to have your plastic pants put on too. Cherie? Could you go put Jay’s plastic pants on for him please or would you rather fold his diapers and onesies while I put his plastic pants on him?
Cherie: I’d….rather fold his diapers.
Lisa: OK, Jay? Come…with me.
Lisa puts jay down onto his feet and walks him over to the folding table. She then grabs Jay’s plastic pants from the office and then opens the waistband elastics before she puts Jay’s right foot into the leg hole and then his left foot into the left leg hole. Then, she pulls the plastic pants up and over Jay’s freshly cleaned cloth diaper.
Lisa: There ya go sweetie. ALL nice and clean! Now, how about I put you back into your stroller for a bit until Cherie and I are done folding all of your onesies and diapers?
Jay: I’m thirsty….can I get some water please?
Lisa: SURE.
Lisa buckles Jay back into his stroller then gets him a bottle of water.
Lisa: (handing Jay the cold bottle of water) there you go sweetie. I am going to roll you over here close to where we are folding so I can keep an eye on you, ok?
After the next 20 minutes of both Cherie and Lisa both folding all of Jay’s onesies and clean cloth diapers, they both put the folded, clean cloth diapers back into the laundry bags and then loaded the bags underneath Jay’s stroller, leaving the last bag set beside jay’s stroller near the office doorway.
Lisa calls Michelle , Jay’s mom to tell her that Jay, his diapers and onesies are done. Michelle tells Lisa that she will be there in 20 minutes. Then Lisa hangs up. Lisa gets up from her office chair to tell Jay when his mom is coming.
Lisa: (coming over to Jay with a comb) Jay? Your mom will be here in 20 minutes. Here…let me comb your hair so that you look neat. You look SO nice and c…l…ean????? Maybe your mom should bring you by once a week so we can get you all nice and cleaned up…huh? There! Your mom will love how nice and clean you are baby. Your mom will be here shortly…ok?
Jay drinks the entire bottle of water and soon falls asleep, weary from his washing and drying. Michelle, Jay’s mom comes and picks Jay, his diapers and onesies up and takes him home, satisfied about how clean jay, his diapers and onesies turned out. Michelle said she would bring Jay back again in a week or two. Jay and his mom then left.
It was now about 1:45 and Lisa and Cherie were about to leave work for the day. Both Lisa and Cherie talked about their first time experience washing Jay, his diapers and onesies before they both left to go home for the day.
Want more of this story? Go down to Chapter two:
Chapter Two
Washed Then Thrown Away.
Two days later, on a cool, cloudy Friday morning at 10:30 am, a mother came in holding her wet, thickly cloth-diapered special needs boy and wet, thickly-cloth diapered special needs girl’s hands while the mother’s assistant came in right behind them rolling the first bags of the boy’s and girl’s cloth diapers and clothing in each of their strollers. The boy had four pillow case sized laundry bags that weighed about 35 lbs each and three of the four bags had his wet and dirty cloth diapers and some of his pants, shorts, socks as well as his onesies and the girl had five pillow case sized laundry bags filled with her wet and dirty cloth diapers, onesies and a few of her dresses and socks.
Gabriella: Hi there. My name is Gabriella.
Lisa: Hi, how can I help you? I am Lisa.
Gabriella: We heard about the great job you did washing Jay when Jay’s mom called us. We wanted to have you wash our two special needs kids too and their clothing and diapers for us. Will you do the same for my two and their diapers, onesies and clothes?
Lisa: Sure. Let me weight the diapers, onesies, and clothing then each of your kids and then we can get them into a couple of our machines.
Lisa picks up Danny and then lays him into the Rubbermaid tub on top of the scale. He weighs in at 52.4 lbs with his wet and heavy cloth diapers on.. Then Lisa takes Danny out of the tub and puts him back down onto his feet before she wrote down Danny’s weight on a ticket. Then it was Tammy’s turn on the scale. Lisa picks Tammy up and lays her down inside the tub on the scale. She weighs in at 47.6 lbs. Then Lisa picks Tammy back up and puts her back down onto her feet. Lisa then weighs each bag and each weigh between 33 and 36 lbs. Lisa writes down Tammy’s weight and the weights of each bag on the ticket. She then totals up the charges on the ticket. Then she hands the ticket to Gabriella. Gabby takes a look at the ticket and then pulls out cash to pay Lisa. Once Gabby paid, Lisa gave Gabby a receipt Then gabby wrote down some special instructions on a piece of paper on what to do with both Danny, Tammy and any of their cloth diapers or clothing if anything gets damaged or ripped or bruised or injured. Lisa looks at the piece of paper.
Lisa: Are…you…SURE you…want me to…do this? If any of their diapers get ripped or torn or get holes in them…I will make sure to throw them away but are you SURE you want me to throw either of them away too if their diapers get ripped or torn in the washer or dryer?
Gabriella: YES…I am absolutely certain! If any of them wet their diapers after being washed or while in the drier, go ahead and rewash them. I added a little extra cash in there for you to…dispose of either of them if their diapers get damaged, ripped, torn or get holes in them, or any of their clothing too. If either of them come out with too many bruises and bumps, go ahead and just throw everything away….ripped or not then call me and tell me ok? I won’t need any of their stuff if you throw any of them away. OH, and….if either of them gives you ANY trouble, don’t be afraid to go ahead and spank them…OK?
Lisa: O….K then…..I will get them right into one of our machines then….I will call you and let you know when they are done and what condition they are in.
Gabriella: Sounds good. Talk soon? Bye now.
Danny and Tammy’s mom leaves as Lisa calls Cherie in to help her get these two loaded into Machines one and two.
Danny: Hey Miss? Why did my mom leave us two here???
Lisa: Well little one, you are getting all washed and cleaned here in a little bit, as soon as my co-worker gets here to help load you two. Wouldn’t you like to get all nice and clean? That’s what we do here Danny. Your mommy left you here with me so that I will wash you and all of your diapers. We are a laundry service.
Danny: You mean….I…am going into….one of those…big…things over there???
Lisa: Yep, you, your dirty diapers, clothes are going into washer number one and your sister will go into washer number 2 right next to the one you’re going into but first, I need to take off your pants, your shirt, your onesie…AND….your plastic pants. Your plastic pats can’t go into the washer with you. I will keep them right here in my office for when you come out of the drier. Your mom wants me to put a disposable diaper over your clean cloth diapers if you make it out with no rips, tears or holes in any of your diapers or clothing. She left me with both of your diaper bags.
Tammy: Where are you going to put ME miss?
Lisa: My co-worker Cherie is going to take YOU…over to washer number 2 with all of YOUR dirty diapers and clothes and you are going to get washed Tammy!
Tammy: But…but…I don’t…wanna get washed! You can’t make me!
Lisa: (Looking at Tammy who had deep stains down her dress) Your dress, your onesie and the diapers you have on, all need to get washed and they WILL be washed! YOU WILL be put into the washer! I don’t care if you want to or not! YES! I WILL make you! That is what I do here! (Lisa said to Tammy rather sternly and matter of factly)
A few minutes later, Cherie walks into the laundromat and clocks in.
Cherie: What do we have?
Lisa: Well, I have these two, the boy and the girl and both of their clothes and diapers to wash. Pick one and take them to one of the big washers. The girl goes into washer number…2 and the boy goes into washer number one. Their mom wants us to throw everything away if any of the diapers, clothing or Danny or Tammy get bruised, too many bumps or their diapers get ripped, torn or damaged.
Cherie: Oh! How sad! Are you going to actually throw them away if any of that happens to them?
Lisa: Yes…I’m afraid I have to…..I mean…I don’t want them…the laundromat certainly doesn’t have any use for them, and they belong to their mom and dad and if they pay me and tell me to throw everything away if any of it gets damaged, then…I am going to.
Cherie: Well, I don’t like it but…if you will take them both out to the dumpster if anything gets damaged, then I will watch one of them while you take the other one out to the dumpster. I will help you take their clothing and diapers out to throw away though.
Lisa: OK then…it’s time to go to the washer now you two…..are you…both ready to be put into the washer and get nice and clean with all of your wet and dirty diapers and clothing?
Both Lisa and Cherie begin to empty all of the laundry bags into one of the laundry carts. Then Cherie puts Tammy into the laundry cart she is about to push over to machine two. Then Cherie begins to push the laundry cart across the laundromat floor (heading southish towards the first row of smaller industrial washers to the second row where Cherie pushed the laundry cart down to machine two and then stopped the cart. Cherie then opened the washer door and then started to grab and toss handfuls of Tammy’s wet and dirty cloth diapers, onesies, and dresses a well as socks into the washer.
As Lisa arrived at Washer number one and opened the washer door, she looked over at Cherie and saw that Tammy still had on what she was brought in.
Lisa: ( to Cherie) Aren’t you going to take her clothes off and make sure that you also take off her plastic pants that she has on under them?
Cherie: She has plastic pants on? OH…ok…then I will make sure that I take them off before I load them….thanks Lisa….
Lisa: No problem.
Cherie: (To Tammy as she puts Tammy back onto her feet to take off her clothes and strip her down to just her cloth diapers) Tammy honey….I need to take all of your clothes off now and then I need to take off those plastic pants you have on…then I will load you into the washer and once I get the rest of your dirty diapers loaded in there, I will close the door and lock it.
Tammy: What are you going to do with the rest of my clothes???
Cherie: I will put them into a different washer. We wash diapers by themselves and clothes separately.
Tammy: Why do I have to go into the washer miss? I don’t wanna!
Cherie: Well little girl….I don’t care WHAT you WANNA do…you…ARE…going into that washer if you want to…..or not! Now don’t struggle with me or your cloth diapers might get ripped or torn! THEN…I will have to get my co-worker over there, miss Lisa, to have to throw you and ALL…..of your diapers and clothing away!
Tammy: What is that in the white bottle and what is that in the little box you have there?
Cherie: Oh those? That is bleach in the bottle and this…little box is ALL laundry detergent. Both of these are going to be used to wash you and your dirty diapers.
Tammy: Will that stuff….hurt me or my diapers?
Cherie: Yea…..the laundry soap and bleach will hurt you some…but…it will clean and whiten your diapers and that is what your momma wanted and paid us to do for her.
Ok, let me get you out of that dirty dress first, then I will take care of that wet and dirty onesie and THEN…I will need to take off your plastic pants….
As Cherie strips Tammy down to just her wet cloth diapers, Lisa is busy stripping Danny down to just HIS wet cloth diapers and getting ready to load him into the washer. Once Lisa takes off Danny’s plastic pants, she discovers that Danny had reddish and pinkish stains down the front of his cloth diaper.
Lisa: Danny, Danny, Danny! Looks like I need to walk you over to get the spray pre-treater bottle so I can spray some of it onto your diapers and you too…you have the same kind of stains that your cloth diapers have, down your chest too! I hope they come out….I REALLY don’t want to end up having to throw you OR your sister away….
Danny: Where would you throw my sister or I away to?
Lisa: Into the trash of course. Your mother wants us to throw either or both of you away if you don’t come clean, come out of the wash with too many bumps or bruises, or if your diaper that you have on has any rips or tears in it and she also wants us to throw away any of your diapers and clothing that have rips or tears or something wrong with them.
It is looking like you might end up having to get thrown away in the trash dumpster outside in the back if I can’t get the stains out. I will try my hardest to get the stains out…even if I have to wash and dry you twice…..if the stains don‘t come out…I guess it’s time to go into the trash then for you and your diapers.
Danny: But….BUT…..I don’t wanna be thrown away! Do I have to be thrown away?
Lisa: Unfortunately, yes….I have to do…what you mother paid us to do…..sorry kid-O Ok Danny, time to get into the washing machine…..ok, sit down on the edge of the opening…like this… (Forces Danny to sit down on the edge of the opening)
Now lay back slowly…ok…good…now I’ll get your feet and legs in…there…good…now….I’m going to finish loading the rest of your dirty diapers in there…..
Danny: Why do I have to have all of my wet and dirty diapers tossed in on top of me? HEY! That’s my…FACE!!!!!
Danny: !!!!!!!!
Danny gets two more heavy, wet cloth diapers tossed in on top of his face and head while four more land on his chest, on top of the cloth diaper he already has on and some on top of his legs and feet. The smell of his wetness was strong inside the washer as Lisa continued to load it.
Danny: Miss? Oh….Miss…It stinks in here!!!
Lisa: Don’t worry honey…..it won’t stink in there for too much longer….not after I start the washer it won’t…..
Lisa finishes loading the rest of Danny’s cloth diapers into the washer and then she closes and locks the washer door. As Lisa grabs the white bottle of bleach, Danny wonders what it is that she is pouring into the machine.
Danny: Hey…Miss? What is that….that you are putting into there?
Lisa: It’s Chlorine bleach hon……it’s going to make your diapers nice and white.
Then Lisa grabs the little box of ALL powdered laundry detergent and opens it.
Danny: now…what is THAT in that little box that you are pouring in there?
Lisa: Oh….THIS??? it’s the laundry soap that is going to clean you and your diapers….
Once Lisa finishes pouring the ALL laundry soap into the powdered soap compartment on top of the washer, she comes over to the front of the washer and stands there while she selects the water temp and then the cycle. She selects the hot water temp then she selects the cycle with the extra wash and rinse cycles. Before she started the cycles, she leaned down to listen to what Danny was saying.
Danny: How long am I going to be IN here miss?
Lisa: You will be in there for about 52 minutes. 15 minutes for the first wash, then 10 minutes for the first rinse and then…another 15 minutes for the second wash and then another 10 minutes for the second rinse and then the spin cycle for 2 minutes. Then…I will come and take you out and get you and everything into the dryer once the washer stops. OK…It’s washer time….
Lisa starts the washer and as she walks away, the washer begins to fill up with 120 degree hot water. Danny, sitting inside the washer lays back against the tumbler trying not to get any of the hot water on his face. As the water fills up the tumbler about half-way, the washer starts to tumble around and around, tossing Danny and his dirty diapers around and around as the soap suds foam, sizzle, pop and lather up as the diapers and Danny are tossed around more and more.
Danny seems to be having fun inside the washer, getting tossed around and around, bumping against the tumbler humps from time to time. Little did Danny know it, but his diaper had been snagged and then it got torn badly as the tumbler tossed him around inside. Danny’s diapers were rather old and were in need of being replaced anyhow…but his mother couldn’t afford to replace them all at the same time, maybe she COULD afford to replace one diaper at a time. That wasn’t good enough though because by the time she replaces one, another one was ready to be thrown away and replaced. Two layers of the six layers of diaper cloth were ripped and torn now and were hanging down and flopping around as Danny tossed, flipped around inside the washer tumbler. Six more of the three dozen cloth diapers also got ripped and torn as well as the threads that were holding the layers of cloth in the wings together began to fray and unravel as they were tossed around in the washer. After the first 15 minute wash cycle, the first rinse cycle began. More hot water began to rush and gush into the washer’s tumbler.
Danny: OUCH! It’s…HOT! OUCH! Make it…STOP! PLEASE! Blub! Blub! BLUB! When is this going to be…OVER????
No one heard Danny inside the washer over the machine’s loud noises and with all of the other machines around him also making loud noises. As the tumbler continued to slowly spin around and around, the hot rinse water began to stop as the tumbler filled back up to the half-way mark again. Then as more ALL detergent began to foam and lather inside the tumbler then more chlorine bleach began to flow into the hot wash water.
Danny: (As seen from outside the washer looking into the window in the washer door as Danny is tossed around inside) My diapers……… feel……….. funny!
(As seen from inside the washer from Danny’s perspective) What’s happening! Something is happening to my diapers!!! HEY! I can’t see! I have some soap in my eyes! Can someone get me…OUT of here???? I keep hearing these…weird ripping sounds in here! Is that supposed to be that way??? ANYONE????
Suddenly the second wash cycle started up and for the next 15 minutes, Danny and his now torn and badly ripped cloth diapers are being tossed around with lots and lots of bleach and ALL detergent flowing into the washer. Danny’s hair was turning a white color as the bleach began to wash the natural color out. Danny also now had quite a few bumps and bruises since he bruised and got bumps really easily. The cloth diaper he was wearing was now starting to tear along the wing down underneath near his right butt check too from bouncing around and hitting all of the humps in the tumbler and from his diapers being rather old and tattered from long-term use. Once the 15 minute second wash cycle was over, the second hot rinse cycle began. Once more, the hot water began to rush and gush into the tumbler as the hot rinse water came into the tumbler and rinsed Danny and his diapers out one final time. The 10 minute rinse cycle made Danny’s diapers softer and rip easier. As the final minute of the last rinse cycle terminated and the washer stopped for a second until the spin cycle began, Danny got a second to look at his diapers. They…were…torn..UP!
Danny: UH…OH!
Then suddenly, the spin cycle began and for what seemed like an eternity, the spin cycle spun all of the water out of everything, making poor Danny inside, dizzier than hell!
Then…the tumbler gradually slowed to a complete stop. It was then another 15 minutes before Lisa came over to the washer with the laundry cart to get Danny and his cloth diapers out and get them into the dryer. As Lisa starts to pull some of the now ripped and torn cloth diapers out of the washer, she starts shaking her head knowing that Danny and his diapers WILL have to be thrown away in the trash right after being dried.
Lisa: (looking at each of the ripped and torn cloth diapers that comes out of the washer with pieces of them hanging from them and shaking her head) It’s NOT looking too good for you and your diapers there…Danny…..I’m going to have to throw away all of these ripped cloth diapers like your mom asked me to. I hope YOUR diaper that you have on is in better shape than THESE ones are!
Then as Lisa leans into the tumbler to get Danny out, as Danny comes out of the washer, she notes that his diaper is ripped and frayed pretty badly.
Lisa: Well…there Danny…..it looks like I will be taking you out to the dumpster, and throwing you and all of your diapers and clothing away out back, after you are dried in the dryer. Sorry baby…it has to be like this…..your mamma wants it like this!
Danny: NOOOOO! Miss! Please don’t throw me away!!!! Don’t I have ANY cloth diapers that aren’t ripped that you can put on me???
Lisa: NO, Afraid not honey……all of your diapers came out with damage to them…rips, tears, some of them are all….frayed and practically falling apart in my hands, sorry…I have NO choice but…to throw you and all of your clothes and things into the trash after I get you and everything out of the dryer. I will at LEAST get you and your diapers all dry before I have to throw you and everything away. I might even put you and your diapers in for that extra 20 minutes even if they don’t need it JUST to give you a little…more time before I have to get you out and throw you and everything away. OK…lets get you into this nice laundry cart so that I can get you and your diapers into the dryer…OK? That-a-boy….good…ok…here…we…go…to the dryer…..look at the dryer Danny…isn’t it…BIG?
Danny: (almost sulking with his head hanging down) Yes miss…it IS big. How long will I be in there for again?
Lisa: You and your diapers will be in there until they are dry enough to get out. About….45 minutes or until you and your diapers are dry. I am going to set it for low heat so it will take longer so you won’t have to be thrown away so fast…..but AS SOON as the drier stops…and I get around to getting you and your diapers out, it will unfortunately be time to take you and your diapers out to our dumpster in the back.
Danny: Can I get my plastic pants on or that clean disposable diaper on first before you throw me and my diapers away?
Lisa: I suppose I can do that for you. Yes.
Danny: How are you going to take me out to the dumpster? When is trash day? When does the trash truck come?
More to come soon……
Chapter Three
Stuck in Machine Four
On Wednesday of the next week, Lisa comes into work and around 9:00 am, two men in lab-coats carrying six large bags full of very dirty ragged old cloth diapers that looked as though they had been used as cleaning rags on some dirty floor or dirty table or something. The cloth diapers smelled of cleaners, chemicals and some kind of blue, green and red gooey gel stuff that was sticky and all over all of the diapers and the 18 year-old thickly cloth diapered ,special needs boy that the other man in a lab-coat was carrying into Excell Laundry that day. The two men stopped at the office and as Lisa came out of the office, she greeted the two men.
Lisa: Hi gentleman, how goes it? May I help you?
Man in lab-coat-1: Yes ma’am. I was told that you could possibly wash these diapers and our lab test subject for us? If you can’t then…it’s ok…we will just…throw him and everything away in the trash.
Lisa: What IS….that all over him and all of the cloth diapers? I need to know so I can use the right detergents and pre-treaters.
Man in Lab-coat-2: Dirt, water, cleaning chemicals, and gels with experimental dyes in them that we are testing and some new foaming fabric cleansers. That turned the diapers that gray color you see. I assure you, none of the chemicals that we tested are toxic any longer and there is no worry of chemical reactions.
Lisa: good. Then I will get everything weighed and then I will make sure that everything goes into…let me see here…machine…1, 2 and three are all in use…so machine 4 is available. I will get everything into washing machine 4 for ya. May I have your diapered test subject boy there for a minute so I can weigh him?
The man in the lab-coat that was still holding the thickly diapered boy that they had used as a lab test subject was handed over to Lisa to get him weighed, she noted that he and his diapers were covered in stains and he was wearing two layered thick cloth pre-fold diapers with cute printed plastic pants on over the diapers with rubber “snappies” fastening the diapers. The scale read that the boy weighed in at 55 lbs. He was really skinny, almost bony Lisa notes as she wrote down the boy’s weight on the ticket and then she picked him back out of the tub on the scale and then handed the boy back to the man in the lab-coat to hold while she weighed the other six bags to verify that indeed the bags weighed 50 lbs each. After she weighed them all, they indeed weighed in at exactly 50 lbs each.
Lisa tallied the total up and the first man in the lab-coat paid in cash, a large sum of money with $200 extra dollars to make sure to throw the boy and his diapers away if she needed to and couldn’t get the dirt and stains out. The chemicals were water salable and weren’t supposed to stain. Most of the diapers had dirt in them.
Man in Lab-coat-1: We heard about this laundromat from one of the people whose boy’s diapers and her boy got ruined and had to be thrown away. She told us to come here.
Lisa: OH…she did, did she? Make sure to thank her for me will you? Sure…I will give it my….best shot. I will have to run the diapers and…your diapered boy…there…through a couple of times in the machines with the extra rinse cycles though. If…I can’t get the stains out or the diapers to come out nice and white….do you just….want me to…throw everything, including the boy, away in the trash then?
Man in Lab-coat-1: Yes Ma’am….I do. Call us at the number on our card and let us know what the status is.
Lisa: Since you dropped your diapers and your boy off after two, I won’t be able to get to him or the diapers until tomorrow morning. Is that…going to be ok?
Man in Lab-coat-1: certainly miss…I didn’t catch your name….
Lisa: it’s Lisa sir…..and your name is? OH that’s right…it’s on the card….OK well I will call you by 12:30 pm and update you as to the progress.
Man in Lab-coat-1: thank you again. Bye now.
The two men in lab-coats leave and the boy and the very dirty diapers that they left, Lisa gets put back into the temporary laundry storage room. As for the thickly diapered boy they left, Lisa goes over to the back storage room and gets an old tall, strong, heavy canvas laundry bag and drags it out to put the boy in until tomorrow when she comes in to work.
Dirty and thickly cloth diapered boy: Miss? What is that…bag for?
Lisa: It’s to put YOU into for the night until I come in to work tomorrow.
More to be “CLEANED” soon
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