Now I know this place needs water, and I know this is the rainy season, but c’mon, can’t a guy do his laundry? I hadn’t realized how spoiled I had gotten having the sun out every day. This morning it was bright and sunny, so I quick did a load of laundry and hung it up to dry. 40 minutes later (and when I had another load soaking), it started to rain. Arg… I’m trying to dry everything in my room but I’ve run out of space to hang things.
There are no coin laundries in Sana’a as far as I can tell. If there are some, they would be on the other, richer part of town. In the US, coin Laundromats are very common in the poorer sections of town, but not here. I have a feeling its because the “poor” in the US have better things to do with their time than wash and dry by hand. Laundry is definitely “woman’s work” here, and what else are they going to do, work at a job? Go to school? Ha! If (when?) women here are able to get out of the house and have the option of doing something else, I’m sure we’ll start to see some Laundromats.
Isaac