put my laundry in the washer at 9:20,
only to realize that it's open until 11 only on friday/saturday
and open until 10 today.
so I have 40 minutes,
but the washer itself takes 30 minutes.
laundromat lady looks at me like
"what were you thinking"
and the only thing I could do was shrug my shoulders.
as I sat in front of the washer,
thinking about how 10 minutes of drying would do anything
and what a mess I have to go through
to try to dry all these clothes in my room somehow.
then a eureka moment.
the speed of a dryer drying clothes is inversely related to the amount of clothes in a dryer
(less clothes, faster dry speed),
and because it's nearly closing time,
alot of the dryers were available.
so once the clothes were done washing,
I split them into (hopefully) equal loads,
put them in multiple dryers,
and let them spin for 10 minutes.
the result was the equivalent about 20~30 minutes of drying in a single dryer.
doing this may sound like an obvious course of action now,
but at that moment,
I was so pegged on the normal process of "one washer, one dryer"
since that was what I had always done.
anyways,
it felt like I was applying what I had learned about parallel processing
in a.. different, yet applicable, situation.
