Last night I put clothes in the washing machine, added soap, put $1.25 in the machine, and... it wouldn't turn on! After tinkering with it for 20 minutes, hoping I could figure out what the problem was, I gave up and decided I would bring them to a laundry mat the following day.
The machine either broke right after the last person used it or someone else discovered it was broken and didn't bother posting a notice on the machine. I printed an OUT OF ORDER sign and slapped it on the machine. I then paid another $2 to wash my clothes at the nearest laundry mat.
Apparently my landlord is very frugal and doesn't like to pay for or fix anything he doesn't need to, which is why he wouldn't take a penny off my rent when a broken water pipe flooded my apartment. I also recently discovered that back when he was the Cambridge Police chief, he made a lot of money by looking the other way (?) and that he most likely bought all the properties he currently owns with that money. 😐 I learned this when I was taking a look at an apartment in the Winter Hill area of Somerville the other day. But, past is past. I'll leave it at that.