Kon'ya Coin Laundry de Aimashou - Ch. 9

[Carn109]

The laundromat drama is real

 

[RPG217]

They Are Still Being Shaken This Evening

 

[Me]

It looks like keeping the coin laundry running is just a hobby for the old man, for the sake of his grandmother's memory. He's not going to invest anything in it, though, he's just keeping it tidy enough. When the machines break beyond the simplest of repairs, he will most likely closed the place for good and sell the property.

I hope not. It is a low-effort income supplement, it doesn't make a lot of sense to NOT keep it going.

Unless the place isn't actually making enough money to cover upgrades, which is quite possible. Then it's living on borrowed time.


I do sincerely love places like this, though. They're like a tiny rift in time, a little step into a bygone era.

 

[Me]

They Are Still Being Shaken This Evening

I understood that reference!

 

[Takonar]

I hope not. It is a low-effort income supplement, it doesn't make a lot of sense to NOT keep it going.

Unless the place isn't actually making enough money to cover upgrades, which is quite possible. Then it's living on borrowed time.


I do sincerely love places like this, though. They're like a tiny rift in time, a little step into a bygone era.

Given how few people we see (and it could just be off hours), it's hard to believe that the guy is making enough to do much more than break even after rent/taxes/utilities.

 

[Me]

Given how few people we see (and it could just be off hours), it's hard to believe that the guy is making enough to do much more than break even after rent/taxes/utilities.

I'm assuming his grandmother owned the land, so there's no rent involved.

But yeah, I don't think this is a high-profit operation. It's a very small washeteria, so it can't ever be very busy. Four clothes washers and two dryers simply won't support much traffic, and it looks like the place is boxed in and can't expand. It will never be more than it is, a tiny sliver that's nice to have when you live nearby and your washing machine breaks down.

It is, realistically, very likely that a failed machine won't be replaced just because the business doesn't make enough money to pay for it.
... Which I guess is why the detergent machine in chapter 1 is there.
Edit: Though interestingly, the washers and the dryers are mismatched, and seem to be of different generations. Cover and color pages shows the dryers as that mustard-yellow that was very popular for appliances in the 70s and then ceased to exist, and the washers in white. Seems likely one of the washers up and quit in the 80s or 90s and they replaced all of them with newer smaller models, but couldn't color-match.

 

[nyoron77]

His shop didnt have CCTV isn't it ?? Because on most coin laundry that I go always have at least 2 of it....some even recording sound also

 

[Heika]

I'm worried this concerned old man is going to be the cause of her secret getting leaked

 

[Trobilobada]

That umbrella won't stop her from getting wet, if you follow where my helicopter is going. 🐴

 

[Kaarme]

It is, realistically, very likely that a failed machine won't be replaced just because the business doesn't make enough money to pay for it.
... Which I guess is why the detergent machine in chapter 1 is there.

I based much of my conjecture on the detergent machine being permanently out of order. Detergent has pretty long shelf life and it's cheap in supermarkets, so in a coin laudry it would actually be a high profit item when sold in single use portions. Yet the owner can't justify the investment to have the vending machine fixed.

 

[Sky_Ravager]

thanks for the chapter!
please, oji-san, don't fuck this up

 

[E-18]

The dad is my new favourite character