Laundromat Liaisons: Difference between revisions

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Laundromats are a convenient setting when the plot requires characters to [[You All Meet in An Inn|meet and strike up a conversation]]. People don't generally like to leave their laundry unattended, so they have a couple hours of nothing to do but wait for the machines. They might as well pass the time by chatting with the person next to them on the bench. [[Romantic Comedy|Romantic comedies]] often use this to set up a [[Meet Cute]]. It can also be played for the awkward, like an [[Uncomfortable Elevator Moment]] only stretched out to several minutes (on stage). Or it can be [[Rule of Creepy|creepy]]: how is Alice to get out of this conversation without abandoning her laundry?

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Octave]]'': Yukino meets Setsuko and her brother in a laundromat. It turns out that [[Justified Trope|they own the place]].

* ''[[When Night Is Falling]]'' has a woman who teaches at a conservative Christian college meet a performer from a traveling performance-art circus at a laundromat. A clothing mixup brings the teacher to the circus for the next step in the courtship.

 

* ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'': Most of the main characters live in the same apartment building; its laundry room frequently appears as a place for two of the characters to chat.

* ''[[Caroline in The City]]'': Dell and Charlie try to [[Invoked Trope|invoke]] this by going to a laundromat singles night.

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