Five minutes walk from Fruit Towers, just past Buchanan's (our nearest sandwich shop), is an ironing shop. It's got nice bunting outside (we like bunting) and a big sign in the window saying ironing. I went to investigate today and found it did just what it says on the tin, or window. There was a nice lady inside with an iron, an ironing board and lots of piles of ironing. It smelt of that nice warm fresh washing smell, like when you were home sick from school and your mum was doing the ironing.
The lady told me it was £1.25 a shirt. You bring it, she irons it, you pick it up and pay for it. Simple as that. She’s definitely keeping her main thing her main thing. No wi-fi or free broadband while you wait. Just ironing.
I’m going to take in the shirts I never wear because I could never be bothered to iron them later this week. I’ll let you know how they come out.
Genius. That's a really good idea. Although sometimes I do my ironing when I'm watching Dr Who, it's not really something I enjoy, so having a lady who could do it for £1.25 is a great idea*.
*My ironing that is, not watching Dr Who. That would just be silly.
Posted by: Christian | September 06, 2006 at 02:10 PM
I used to do ironing for fellow students when I was at uni(that was over 25 years ago) I used to get cream cakes in return - course if INNOCENT SMOOTHIES had been around then payment would have been in a different currency. I didn't get very fat on the cream cakes because it was in the days of PUNK and not many students went for the well groomed ironed look. Aaah those were the days...
Posted by: Ju | September 06, 2006 at 02:20 PM