Nobody photographs a launderette. That is the whole idea of one. You carry in a bag of your own dirt, feed coins to a machine, and walk out in nothing you arrived in. The machine either works or it does not. There is nothing to interpret, so nobody aims a camera at it.
Linsey Laundry, south London, averages 5.0 across 161 Google Maps ratings. The most ordinary room in the city holds the highest score I have found on anything. The notes on it mention a clean floor, machines that get looked after, a door wide enough to take a wheelchair. Nobody writes love letters to a washing machine. They just come back, 161 times.
I have never stood inside it. But 161 people did, and not one of them shrugged.
The place is called Linsey. That is a person's name. Whoever kept that room right, year after year, is the entire review, and nobody has written it down. So: Linsey Laundry, south London. Five stars 161 times, for the room where the only thing that changes is the weather in your clothes.
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Steve
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