Laundry Day at Excell Laundry

Laundry Day at Excell Laundry

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All Washed Up

Chapter one

Inspired by: “Lisa” and “Cherie” who works at Excell Laundry in the Pueblo, CO and those who are into the Laundry Fetish thing at www.fetlife.com

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At 11:30 am on a hot Wednesday in Pueblo, Michelle and her special needs child who only weighed 49 lbs at the tender age of 17. Michelle pulls up and parks on the side of the laundromat and parks. She gets out, shuts her door and then gets jay out of his car seat. Then she puts Jay into his stroller before going around to the back of her SUV to get all of Jay’s dirty onesies and wet and dirty cloth diapers. Jay’s mom loads the three large pillowcase sized laundry bags full of Jay’s dirty diapers and one bag full of his onesies underneath Jay’s stroller and the third bag onto Jay’s lap so she can roll Jay and the laundry into the laundromat. Michelle opens the door to the laundromat, and pushes Jay, in his loaded down stroller into the building and up the slight incline before stopping at the office which is on the left as they enter. Standing at the folding counter next to the office doorway is Lisa, folding some large loads of laundry and Cherie is standing in the office.

Lisa: Hi, how are you?

Cherie smiles and winks at Jay and then she waves cutely at him as Jay sits in his stroller

Michelle: Good. I have all of this laundry to drop off and have done.

Lisa: Ok, it’s going to be a dollar per pound and a $10 drop-off fee. Let’s go into the office here and get it all weighed, ok?

Michelle:  I have all of my son wearing a wet cloth diaper and plastic pants, his dirty cloth diapers and all of his onesies here that need to be washed very well!

Lisa: Oh, your son is going to need washing too? Ok, I will need to weigh him and the diaper he has on to determine which machine he will go into.

Michelle: Ok Jay, I am going to unbuckle you from your stroller so that Lisa here, can weigh you and your diapers and onesies.

Jay: But…MOMMY! How come I….have to be washed here??? Can’t you wash me at home?

Michelle: No honey, our water is off at home for two days while the city fixes the water pipes in the streets. This is just an easier way to get you AND all of your dirty diapers and onesies all…nice…and clean. I am going to leave you here with Lisa until she gets you and your diapers done.

Jay: Mommy! Don’t go! Please! What is going to happen to me?

Michelle: Lisa will be washing you, your diapers and onesies honey….you will be fine…ok? I will be back when you, your diapers and onesies are all nice and clean…ok?

Lisa picks Jay up and out of his stroller and then puts him into a Rubbermaid tub that is on top of the laundry scale and then lays him into the tub.

The scale reads 49.6 pounds.

Then Lisa picks Jay back up and puts him back into his stroller and straps him in until she can weigh the six pillowcase sized bags filled with Jay’s wet and dirty cloth diapers and the one pillowcase sized bag with his onesies in it. Once Lisa weighs the six bags full of Jay’s heavy, wet and dirty cloth diapers, each bag weighs 35 pounds. The bag full of his onesies weighs 22 pounds. Lisa takes the last bag off the scale and then sits down at her desk and writes out a ticket with the weights and costs on it.

Lisa: That will be….. $281.

Michelle pulls out the $450 in cash and pays Lisa who then gives Michelle a receipt for the $450 she paid to get Jay, his diapers and onesies washed and dried. Michelle then leans down and looks Jay in the eyes as he sits in his stroller holding one of the bags full of his wet cloth diapers.

Michelle: Now Jay? Lisa is in charge of you until I get back…you better be a GOOD boy! If I hear that you gave miss Lisa here any trouble, then she has special instructions that I wrote down for her to do if you are bad. She WILL spank you if she needs to….understand?

Jay: Yes Mamma…..but…I don’t WANNA be washed! Do…I…HAVE to?

Michelle: YES hon…Lisa here is going to clean you, the diaper you are wearing and all of your nice, comfy diapers for me…be good now…bye-bye…MMMMUAH! Be…good!

Michelle then walks out of the office and then out of the laundromat and leaves.

Lisa comes over to Jay’s stroller and pushes it over to the side near the office and then she leans down and unbuckles Jay from the stroller.

Lisa: Hi there Jay, how are you?

Jay: OK miss Lisa. What are you going to do with me?

Lisa: Your mom brought you here to get washed! You’re Getting washed! That’s what we do here. We are a laundry service.

Jay: No, matter what?

Lisa: Yep! No matter what!

Jay: But…I don’t wanna get washed! Do I HAVE to?

Lisa: Those diapers you have on look very dirty and they need to be washed! So do the rest of the ones in those six bags as well as your bag of onesies! SUCH a DIRTY diapered boy you are! Ready to get all nice…and clean hon? First, let me take those plastic pants off you…they can’t go into the machine with you. Cherie? Could you help bring some of his stuff to machine one for me? Thanks.  (Lisa then grabs Jay by his left hand in her right hand, while Cherie pushes the laundry cart over to machine 1)

Jay: NO! Where are…you…taking me?

Lisa: Over here to….washing machine number 1. let’s go! Come on….time to get clean!

 

Jay reluctantly is guided and forced over to washing machine number one with Lisa holding his left hand. Lisa opens the door to the side loading washing machine and then she forces Jay to sit down on the edge of the opening then she lays him down inside the tumbler tub. 

Lisa: “Time to get into the machine and get washed! Sit down on the edge of the opening here…like that…and now I am going to lay you down inside the washer….there….Now I need you to stay in there while I load all of your diapers and onesies in there…ok?”

Lisa opens the laundry bag full of Jay’s wet and dirty diapers first and then she starts to load the wet and dirty diapers into the machine on top of Jay and the diaper he has on while Cherie gets the next bag ready to load into the washer for Lisa. Lisa leans over to whisper to Lisa as Lisa pauses to listen while holding the almost empty first bag.

Cherie:  We are…washing this kid AND his diapers?

Lisa: YEP! You were there…his mom paid us both to get everything she dropped off, washed and dried. We have to do our jobs…ok? Can you go bring the bleach and the ALL Detergent please? THANNNKS……

While Cherie goes and brings the bottle of bleach and the ALL Detergent from the office, Lisa continues to load the rest of Jay’s cloth diapers and the bag of onesies into the machine.  Hand tossing the last diaper into the machine, Lisa closes and latches the washing machine door.

Jay: (knocking on the window of the washing machine door) Let me out miss Lisa! I want OUT! I don’t wanna be washed!

Lisa:  You and your diapers are going to be in there for 42 minutes, the first wash will be 15 minutes then the rinse cycle will go for 10 minutes then another wash cycle and then another rinse cycle.

See you in 42 minutes……

Jay: What is that in that white bottle you are pouring into that thing on top of the washer?

Lisa: This? It’s Chlorine bleach.

Jay: What is that in that blue colored little box?

Lisa: it’s ALL Detergent. Now, I am going to set the water temp for hot and it will be 120 degrees or so. Your cloth diapers HAVE to get nice and clean and white…OK? The bleach will get them nice and clean! I will be back in 42 minutes…

Lisa starts the washer and the hot water fills the tumbler. Jay starts to feel the hot water and tries to pound on the door to be let out but Lisa and Cherie have left the machine to start the other loads that they have to also get done there at Excell Laundry. As the tumbler fills up to the half-way mark, the ALL Detergent and the bleach combine with the hot water and once the water level was reached, the washing machine tumbler began to rotate. Jay bounced around along with his wet and dirty diapers and onesies with soap suds and bleach splashing around everywhere. Jay was barely able to reach his arm out towards the window to try to bang on it to be let out. After the first 15 minutes, the dirty wash water drained away and some more hot water gushed inside the tumbler as the rinse cycle started. Jay and the diapers continued to bounce and tumble around in the tumbler while 120 degree to 140 degree hot water gushed into the tumbler for the next ten minutes.. Then the tumbler slowed down and came to a stop for 1 minute while the gushing water stopped and the water level filled the tumbler half way. While the tumbler filled, Jay looked out of the washing machine’s window in the door and saw people doing their laundry as usual. No one was able to hear Jay from inside the washer or they didn’t care. NOT seeing either Lisa or Cherie around, Jay laid back down with a lot of semi clean, heavy, water sodden diapers lay all over him from head to toe. Jay’s hair was matted and sticking up everywhere.

Jay: OUCH! OUCH! It’s HOT! HEY! Let me out! BLUB, BLUB LET…ME…OUT NOW! PLEASE?????? I think my diapers are clean…now!!! Any…one????

Once the water level filled the tumbler half way again, the second wash cycle started.

The diapers, onesies and Jay began to tumble around in the washer again with more bleach and more ALL Detergent suds bubbling and foaming around him. The bleach was STRONG and it burned his eyes and the hot water felt numbing now that he had somehow got used to it. Jay was a little bruised now but his skin was red as though he had a sunburn. Jay’s diapers were becoming whiter and whiter now that the second wash cycle had started. After the second 15 minutes was up, the second wash water began to drain away as more hot rinse water gushed and flowed incessantly into the tumbler for the next ten minutes. As the last rinse cycle came to a stop, the rinse water began to stop gushing and flowing into the tumbler and the spin cycle began. At first…the tumbler started out slowly…as it went faster and faster, building up to full speed, Jay becan to get dizzier and dizzier.

Jay: WHOA!! WHOA!!! WHOA!!!! WHOA!!!!!

The spin cycle lasted for about a minute or two then the tumbler slowed to a stop. Jay was so dizzy that all he could do was lay there in a seemingly drunken-like disoriented state. About five minutes later, both Lisa and Cherie came over to the washing machine and unlatched and then opened the washer. The sudden cold air rush made Jay shiver.

Jay:  UH! UH! UH! You came to get me out?

Lisa: Are you alright there…Jay? How was your wash cycle? I see that you and your diapers are nice and clean now. They LOOK all nice and white!

Cherie: Are you going to make sure all of his diapers are still in good shape?

Lisa: OH…yes….I will take a look at each one as I take them out and put them into the laundry cart.

Jay: What is going to happen to me now????

Lisa: You, your diapers and onesies are going into the dryer now.

Jay: How long will I be in THERE?????

Lisa: Oh…about…45 more minutes. I will come to see if you, the diaper you have on and your diapers and onesies are dry enough. If you and they are, you will come out then, if not, then you will go again for another ten more minutes or so. OK, out…you go…time to go into the dryer now.

Jay: Can YOU change me?

Lisa: NO, you and your diaper are going into the dryer now. IF you wet your diaper in the drier, Cherie and I will have to start the wash and drying ALL over! So you don’t need to wet your diaper yet…do you?

Jay: No, I don’t think so.

Lisa: Good!

Lisa Loads Jay and the rest of the diapers and onesies into the laundry cart and then she and Cherie roll the cart over to the largest dryer on the western wall and farthest to the right at the end of the row. Cherie opens the door and then starts to toss the wet, sodden, clean cloth diapers and onesies into the dryer. Then when it came to Jay’s turn to get loaded, Cherie grabbed Jay’s right leg and right arm while Lisa grabbed jay’s left leg and arm. The two lifted Jay up and out of the cart and carried him up and into the tumbler of the dryer where Lisa positioned Jay inside the tumbler on top of the wet diapers and onesies. Then Lisa finishes loading the rest of the heavy, soggy cloth diapers into the dryer and then she asks Cherie to go get the three tennis balls and bring them to the dryer.

Lisa: Hey Cherie?

Cherie: Yes? Can…you go get the…tennis balls for me? Thank you.

While Lisa waits for Cherie to bring the tennis balls, Jay lays there in the dryer still a bit disoriented and recovering from the heavy wash and rinse cycles. Cherie comes over to the open dryer with the three tennis balls.

Cherie: Here ya go.

Jay: HEY! What…are THOSE for????  Are those for me to play with while I am in here?

Lisa: (Laughing a little) NO hun, these three tennis balls will help fluff your diapers up while they dry. They will bounce around in there and fluff your diapers up really nicely. OK, ready to be dried?

Jay: Do I…have a choice?

Lisa: NOPE! Not really!

Lisa closes the door and it latches. Lisa selects the time and then she puts two quarters in and then she hits the start button, holding it down until the drier starts. Lisa watches jay and the diapers being tossed around inside the drier as the drier begins to heat up inside.

Jay starts to sweat a little bit as the dry, hot air blows incessantly into the drier.

Lisa and Cherie walk away and go to fold someone else’s laundry while the load with Jay in it continues to dry. People walk by and a few of the toddlers and little girls look at Jay bouncing around inside of the drier. One little girl walks over to Lisa and tugs on her pants.

Little 10 year old girl: Miss? Miss? How come there is a boy in that thing over there?

Lisa: Because, his mother wanted him to be washed. That’s what we do here.

The little girl goes walking back to the play area and starts playing again.

Inside the dryer, Jay starts to feel hot and stuffy, wishing that his mom would come and take him out of there already. As the dryer tossed Jay around and the diapers and his onesies slapped and bounced around inside the dryer tumbler the tennis balls also bounced around and kept hitting him in the head, face, chest, lets, feet and his diaper that he was wearing. All at once, jay was flips over to his tummy and he landed onto one of the dryer’s humps and then he tumbled head over feet again onto his back. This scared Jay a little bit. One of the tennis balls came and hit him on the top of the head. BOP! Then another tennis ball hit him right on his diapered butt as his clean, dry cloth diaper became more and more fluffy.

Forty minutes later, the drier started it’s cool-down cycle. The cycle lasted about five minutes before the dryer stopped completely and the dryer cycle was finished. Jay, his diapers and onesies laid in the drier for another ten minutes until Lisa and Cherie came over to the dryer with the laundry cart and opened the door.

Lisa: Hi there Jay. Are YOU all dry? Here….let me feel……

Lisa reaches into the dryer and feels Jay and his diapers that he has on and those that are loose in the dryer front and back and underneath him.

Lisa: YEP! You’re ready to come out along with the rest of your diapers and onesies.

Jay: I get…to…come…out now? Goodie! Where are you going to take me now?

Lisa: I am going to take you, your diapers and onesies over to my folding table and fold your diapers and onesies. You need to have your plastic pants put on too. Cherie? Could you go put Jay’s plastic pants on for him please or would you rather fold his diapers and onesies while I put his plastic pants on him?

Cherie: I’d….rather fold his diapers.

Lisa: OK, Jay? Come…with me.

Lisa puts jay down onto his feet and walks him over to the folding table. She then grabs Jay’s plastic pants from the office and then opens the waistband elastics before she puts Jay’s right foot into the leg hole and then his left foot into the left leg hole. Then, she pulls the plastic pants up and over Jay’s freshly cleaned cloth diaper.

Lisa: There ya go sweetie. ALL nice and clean! Now, how about I put you back into your stroller for a bit until Cherie and I are done folding all of your onesies and diapers?

Jay: I’m thirsty….can I get some water please?

Lisa: SURE.

Lisa buckles Jay back into his stroller then gets him a bottle of water.

Lisa: (handing Jay the cold bottle of water) There you go sweetie. I am going to roll you over here close to where we are folding so I can keep an eye on you, ok?

After the next 20 minutes of both Cherie and Lisa both folding all of Jay’s onesies and clean cloth diapers, they both put the folded, clean cloth diapers back into the laundry bags and then loaded the bags underneath Jay’s stroller, leaving the last bag set beside jay’s stroller near the office doorway.

Lisa calls Michelle , Jay’s mom to tell her that Jay, his diapers and onesies are done. Michelle tells Lisa that she will be there in 20 minutes. Then Lisa hangs up. Lisa gets up from her office chair to tell Jay when his mom is coming.

Lisa: (coming over to Jay with a comb) Jay? Your mom will be here in 20 minutes. Here…let me comb your hair so that you look neat. You look SO nice and cl…ean????? Maybe your mom should bring you by once a week so we can get you all nice and cleaned up…huh? There! Your mom will love how nice and clean you are baby. Your mom will be here shortly…ok?

Jay drinks the entire bottle of water and soon falls asleep, weary from his washing and drying. Michelle, Jay’s mom comes and picks Jay, his diapers and onesies up and takes him home, satisfied about how clean jay, his diapers and onesies turned out. Michelle said she would bring Jay back again in a week or two. Jay and his mom then left.

It was now about 1:45 and Lisa and Cherie were about to leave work for the day. Both Lisa and Cherie talked about their first time experience washing Jay, his diapers and onesies before they both left to go home for the day.

Want more of this story? Go down to Chapter two:

 

 

Chapter Two

Washed Then Thrown Away.

Two days later, on a cool, cloudy Friday morning at 10:30 am, a mother came in holding her wet, thickly cloth-diapered special needs boy and wet, thickly-cloth diapered special needs girl’s hands while the mother’s assistant came in right behind them rolling the first bags of the boy’s and girl’s cloth diapers and clothing in each of their strollers. The boy had four pillow case sized laundry bags that weighed about 35 lbs each and three of the four bags had his wet and dirty cloth diapers and some of his pants, shorts, socks as well as his onesies and the girl had five pillow case sized laundry bags filled with her wet and dirty cloth diapers, onesies and a few of her dresses and socks.

Gabriella: Hi there. My name is Gabriella.

Lisa: Hi, how can I help you? I am Lisa. 

Gabriella: We heard about the great job you did washing Jay when Jay’s mom called us. We wanted to have you wash our two special needs kids too and their clothing and diapers for us. Will you do the same for my two and their diapers, onesies and clothes?

Lisa: Sure. Let me weight the diapers, onesies, and clothing then each of your kids and then we can get them into a couple of our machines.

Lisa picks up Danny and then lays him into the Rubbermaid tub on top of the scale.

He weighs in at 52.4 lbs with his wet and heavy cloth diapers on.. Then Lisa takes Danny out of the tub and puts him back down onto his feet before she wrote down Danny’s weight on a ticket. Then it was Tammy’s turn on the scale. Lisa picks Tammy up and lays her down inside the tub on the scale. She weighs in at 47.6 lbs. Then Lisa picks Tammy back up and puts her back down onto her feet. Lisa then weighs each bag and each weigh between 33 and 36 lbs. Lisa writes down Tammy’s weight and the weights of each bag on the ticket. She then totals up the charges on the ticket. Then she hands the ticket to Gabriella. Gabby takes a look at the ticket and then pulls out cash to pay Lisa. Once Gabby paid, Lisa gave Gabby a receipt  Then gabby wrote down some special instructions on a piece of paper on what to do with both Danny, Tammy and any of their cloth diapers or clothing if anything gets damaged or ripped or bruised or injured. Lisa looks at the piece of paper.

Lisa: Are…you…SURE you…want me to…do this? If any of their diapers get ripped or torn or get holes in them…I will make sure to throw them away but are you SURE you want me to throw either of them away too if their diapers get ripped or torn in the washer or dryer? 

Gabriella: YES…I am absolutely certain! If any of them wet their diapers after being washed or while in the drier, go ahead and rewash them. I added a little extra cash in there for you to…dispose of either of them if their diapers get damaged, ripped, torn or get holes in them, or any of their clothing too. If either of them come out with too many bruises and bumps, go ahead and just throw everything away….ripped or not then call me and tell me ok? I won’t need any of their stuff if you throw any of them away. OH, and….if either of them gives you ANY trouble, don’t be afraid to go ahead and spank them…OK?

Lisa: O….K then…..I will get them right into one of our machines then….I will call you and let you know when they are done and what condition they are in.

Gabriella: Sounds good. Talk soon? Bye now.

Danny and Tammy’s mom leaves as Lisa calls Cherie in to help her get these two loaded into Machines one and two.

Danny: Hey Miss? Why did my mom leave us two here???

Lisa: Well little one, you are getting all washed and cleaned here in a little bit, as soon as my co-worker gets here to help load you two. Wouldn’t you like to get all nice and clean? That’s what we do here Danny. Your mommy left you here with me so that I will wash you and all of your diapers. We are a laundry service.

Danny: You mean….I…am going into….one of those…big…things over there???

Lisa: Yep, you, your dirty diapers, clothes are going into washer number one and your sister will go into washer number 2 right next to the one you’re going into but first, I need to take off your pants, your shirt, your onesie…AND….your plastic pants. Your plastic pats can’t go into the washer with you. I will keep them right here in my office for when you come out of the drier. Your mom wants me to put a disposable diaper over your clean cloth diapers if you make it out with no rips, tears or holes in any of your diapers or clothing. She left me with both of your diaper bags.

Tammy: Where are you going to put ME miss?

Lisa: My co-worker Cherie is going to take YOU…over to washer number 2 with all of YOUR dirty diapers and clothes and you are going to get washed Tammy!

Tammy: But…but…I don’t…wanna get washed! You can’t make me!

Lisa: (Looking at Tammy who had deep stains down her dress) Your dress, your onesie and the diapers you have on, all need to get washed and they WILL be washed! YOU WILL be put into the washer! I don’t care if you want to or not! YES! I WILL make you! That is what I do here! (Lisa said to Tammy rather sternly and matter of factly)

A few minutes later, Cherie walks into the laundromat and clocks in.

Cherie: What do we have?

Lisa: Well, I have these two, the boy and the girl and both of their clothes and diapers to wash. Pick one and take them to one of the big washers. The girl goes into washer number…2 and the boy goes into washer number one. Their mom wants us to throw everything away if any of the diapers, clothing or Danny or Tammy get bruised, too many bumps or their diapers get ripped, torn or damaged.

Cherie: Oh! How sad! Are you going to actually throw them away if any of that happens to them?

Lisa: Yes…I’m afraid I have to…..I mean…I don’t want them…the laundromat certainly doesn’t have any use for them, and they belong to their mom and dad and if they pay me and tell me to throw everything away if any of it gets damaged, then…I am going to.

Cherie: Well, I don’t like it but…if you will take them both out to the dumpster if anything gets damaged, then I will watch one of them while you take the other one out to the dumpster. I will help you take their clothing and diapers out to throw away though.

Lisa: OK then…it’s time to go to the washer now you two…..are you…both ready to be put into the washer and get nice and clean with all of your wet and dirty diapers and clothing? 

Both Lisa and Cherie begin to empty all of the laundry bags into one of the laundry carts. Then Cherie puts Tammy into the laundry cart she is about to push over to machine two. Then Cherie begins to push the laundry cart across the laundromat floor (heading southish towards the first row of smaller industrial washers to the second row where Cherie pushed the laundry cart down to machine two and then stopped the cart. Cherie then opened the washer door and then started to grab and toss handfuls of Tammy’s wet and dirty cloth diapers, onesies, and dresses a well as socks into the washer.

As Lisa arrived at Washer number one and opened the washer door, she looked over at Cherie and saw that Tammy still had on what she was brought in.

Lisa: ( to Cherie) Aren’t you going to take her clothes off and make sure that you also take off her plastic pants that she has on under them?

Cherie: She has plastic pants on? OH…ok…then I will make sure that I take them off before I load them….thanks Lisa….

Lisa: No problem.

Cherie: (To Tammy as she puts Tammy back onto her feet to take off her clothes and strip her down to just her cloth diapers)  Tammy honey….I need to take all of your clothes off now and then I need to take off those plastic pants you have on…then I will load you into the washer and once I get the rest of your dirty diapers loaded in there, I will close the door and lock it.

Tammy: What are you going to do with the rest of my clothes???

Cherie: I will put them into a different washer. We wash diapers by themselves and clothes separately.

Tammy: Why do I have to go into the washer miss? I don’t wanna!

Cherie: Well little girl….I don’t care WHAT you WANNA do…you…ARE…going into that washer if you want to…..or not! Now don’t struggle with me or your cloth diapers might get ripped or torn! THEN…I will have to get my co-worker over there, miss Lisa, to have to throw you and ALL…..of your diapers and clothing away!

Tammy: What is that in the white bottle  and what is that in the little box you have there?

Cherie: Oh those? That is bleach in the bottle and this…little box is ALL laundry detergent. Both of these are going to be used to wash you and your dirty diapers.

Tammy: Will that stuff….hurt me or my diapers?

Cherie: Yea…..the laundry soap and bleach will hurt you some…but…it will clean and whiten your diapers and that is what your momma wanted and paid us to do for her.

Ok, let me get you out of that dirty dress first, then I will take care of that wet and dirty onesie and THEN…I will need to take off your plastic pants….

As Cherie strips Tammy down to just her wet cloth diapers, Lisa is busy stripping Danny down to just HIS wet cloth diapers and getting ready to load him into the washer. Once Lisa takes off Danny’s plastic pants, she discovers that Danny had reddish and pinkish stains down the front of his cloth diaper.

Lisa: Danny, Danny, Danny! Looks like I need to walk you over to get the spray pre-treater bottle so I can spray some of it onto your diapers and you too…you have the same kind of stains that your cloth diapers have, down your chest too! I hope they come out….I REALLY don’t want to end up having to throw you OR your sister away….

Danny: Where would you throw my sister or I away to?

Lisa: Into the trash of course. Your mother wants us to throw either or both of you away if you don’t come clean, come out of the wash with too many bumps or bruises, or if your diaper that you have on has any rips or tears in it and she also wants us to throw away any of your diapers and clothing that have rips or tears or something wrong with them.

It is looking like you might end up having to get thrown away in the trash dumpster outside in the back if I can’t get the stains out. I will try my hardest to get the stains out…even if I have to wash and dry you twice…..if the stains don‘t come out…I guess it’s time to go into the trash then for you and your diapers.

Danny: But….BUT…..I don’t wanna be thrown away! Do I have to be thrown away?

Lisa: Unfortunately, yes….I have to do…what you mother paid us to do…..sorry kid-O Ok Danny, time to get into the washing machine…..ok, sit down on the edge of the opening…like this… (Forces Danny to sit down on the edge of the opening)

Now lay back slowly…ok…good…now I’ll get your feet and legs in…there…good…now….I’m going to finish loading the rest of your dirty diapers in there…..

Danny: Why do I have to have all of my wet and dirty diapers tossed in on top of me? HEY! That’s my…FACE!!!!!

Danny: !!!!!!!!

Danny gets two more heavy, wet cloth diapers tossed in on top of his face and head while four more land on his chest, on top of the cloth diaper he already has on and some on top of his legs and feet. The smell of his wetness was strong inside the washer as Lisa continued to load it.

Danny: Miss? Oh….Miss…It stinks in here!!!

Lisa: Don’t worry honey…..it won’t stink in there for too much longer….not after I start the washer it won’t…..

Lisa finishes loading the rest of Danny’s cloth diapers into the washer and then she closes and locks the washer door. As Lisa grabs the white bottle of bleach, Danny wonders what it is that she is pouring into the machine.

Danny: Hey…Miss? What is that….that you are putting into there?

Lisa: It’s Chlorine bleach hon……it’s going to make your diapers nice and white.

Then Lisa grabs the little box of ALL powdered laundry detergent and opens it.

Danny: now…what is THAT in that little box that you are pouring in there?

Lisa: Oh….THIS??? it’s the laundry soap that is going to clean you and your diapers….

Once Lisa finishes pouring the ALL laundry soap into the powdered soap compartment on top of the washer, she comes over to the front of the washer and stands there while she selects the water temp and then the cycle. She selects the hot water temp then she selects the cycle with the extra wash and rinse cycles. Before she started the cycles, she leaned down to listen to what Danny was saying.

Danny: How long am I going to be IN here miss?

Lisa: You will be in there for about 52 minutes. 15 minutes for the first wash, then 10 minutes for the first rinse and then…another 15 minutes for the second wash and then another 10 minutes for the second rinse and then the spin cycle for 2 minutes. Then…I will come and take you out and get you and everything into the dryer once the washer stops. OK…It’s washer time….

Lisa starts the washer and as she walks away, the washer begins to fill up with 120 degree hot water. Danny, sitting inside the washer lays back against the tumbler trying not to get any of the hot water on his face. As the water fills up the tumbler about half-way, the washer starts to tumble around and around, tossing Danny and his dirty diapers around and around as the soap suds foam, sizzle, pop and lather up as the diapers and Danny are tossed around more and more.

Danny seems to be having fun inside the washer, getting tossed around and around, bumping against the tumbler humps from time to time. Little did Danny know it, but his diaper had been snagged and then it got torn badly as the tumbler tossed him around inside. Danny’s diapers were rather old and were in need of being replaced anyhow…but his mother couldn’t afford to replace them all at the same time, maybe she COULD afford to replace one diaper at a time. That wasn’t good enough though because by the time she replaces one, another one was ready to be thrown away and replaced. Two layers of the six layers of diaper cloth were ripped and torn now and were hanging down and flopping around as Danny tossed, flipped around inside the washer tumbler. Six more of the three dozen cloth diapers also got ripped and torn as well as the threads that were holding the layers of cloth in the wings together began to fray and unravel as they were tossed around in the washer. After the first 15 minute wash cycle, the first rinse cycle began. More hot water began to rush and gush into the washer’s tumbler.

Danny: OUCH! It’s…HOT! OUCH! Make it…STOP! PLEASE! Blub! Blub! BLUB! When is this going to be…OVER????

No one heard Danny inside the washer over the machine’s loud noises and with all of the other machines around him also making loud noises. As the tumbler continued to slowly spin around and around, the hot rinse water began to stop as the tumbler filled back up to the half-way mark again. Then as more ALL detergent began to foam and lather inside the tumbler then more chlorine bleach began to flow into the hot wash water.

Danny: (As seen from outside the washer looking into the window in the washer door as Danny is tossed around inside) My diapers……… feel……….. funny!

(As seen from inside the washer from Danny’s perspective) What’s happening! Something is happening to my diapers!!! HEY! I can’t see! I have some soap in my eyes! Can someone get me…OUT of here???? I keep hearing these…weird ripping sounds in here! Is that supposed to be that way??? ANYONE????

Suddenly the second wash cycle started up and  for the next 15 minutes, Danny and his now torn and badly ripped cloth diapers are being tossed around with lots and lots of bleach and ALL detergent flowing into the washer. Danny’s hair was turning a white color as the bleach began to wash the natural color out. Danny also now had quite a few bumps and bruises since he bruised and got bumps really easily. The cloth diaper he was wearing was now starting to tear along the wing down underneath near his right butt check too from bouncing around and hitting all of the humps in the tumbler and from his diapers being rather old and tattered from long-term use. Once the 15 minute second wash cycle was over, the second hot rinse cycle began. Once more, the hot water began to rush and gush into the tumbler as the hot rinse water came into the tumbler and rinsed Danny and his diapers out one final time. The 10 minute rinse cycle made Danny’s diapers softer and rip easier. As the final minute of the last rinse cycle terminated and the washer stopped for a second until the spin cycle began, Danny got a second to look at his diapers. They…were…torn..UP!

Danny: UH…OH!

Then suddenly, the spin cycle began and for what seemed like an eternity, the spin cycle spun all of the water out of everything, making poor Danny inside, dizzier than hell!

Then…the tumbler gradually slowed to a complete stop. It was then another 15 minutes before Lisa came over to the washer with the laundry cart to get Danny and his cloth diapers out and get them into the dryer. As Lisa starts to pull some of the now ripped and torn cloth diapers out of the washer, she starts shaking her head knowing that Danny and his diapers WILL have to be thrown away in the trash right after being dried.

Lisa: (looking at each of the ripped and torn cloth diapers that comes out of the washer with pieces of them hanging from them and shaking her head) It’s NOT looking too good for you and your diapers there…Danny…..I’m going to have to throw away all of these ripped cloth diapers like your mom asked me to. I hope YOUR diaper that you have on is in better shape than THESE ones are!

Then as Lisa leans into the tumbler to get Danny out, as Danny comes out of the washer, she notes that his diaper is ripped and frayed pretty badly.

Lisa: Well…there Danny…..it looks like I will be taking you out to the dumpster, and throwing you and all of your diapers and clothing away out back, after you are dried in the dryer. Sorry baby…it has to be like this…..your mamma wants it like this!

Danny: NOOOOO! Miss! Please don’t throw me away!!!! Don’t I have ANY cloth diapers that aren’t ripped that you can put on me???

Lisa: NO, Afraid not honey……all of your diapers came out with damage to them…rips, tears, some of them are all….frayed and practically falling apart in my hands, sorry…I have NO choice but…to throw you and all of your clothes and things into the trash after I get you and everything out of the dryer. I will at LEAST get you and your diapers all dry before I have to throw you and everything away.  I might even put you and your diapers in for that extra 20 minutes even if they don’t need it JUST to give you a little…more time before I have to get you out and throw you and everything away. OK…lets get you into this nice laundry cart so that I can get you and your diapers into the dryer…OK? That-a-boy….good…ok…here…we…go…to the dryer…..look at the dryer Danny…isn’t it…BIG?

Danny: (almost sulking with his head hanging down)  Yes miss…it IS big. How long will I be in there for again?

Lisa: You and your diapers will be in there until they are dry enough to get out. About….45 minutes or until you and your diapers are dry. I am going to set it for low heat so it will take longer so you won’t have to be thrown away so fast…..but AS SOON as the drier stops…and I get around to getting you and your diapers out,  it will unfortunately be time to take you and your diapers out to our dumpster in the back.

Danny: Can I get my plastic pants on or that clean disposable diaper on first before you throw me and my diapers away?

Lisa: I suppose I can do that for you. Yes.

Lisa pushes the cart over to the dryer and then she starts to load the dryer with Danny’s cloth diapers and then she loads Danny into the dryer on top of the cold, wet cloth diapers.

Danny: What are those tennis balls for miss? 

Lisa: They bounce around inside the dryer with you and fluff your diapers up. I think I will keep them out for now because you and your diapers and even your stroller are being thrown away after you and they come out.

Well, it’s time to dry you and your diapers now.

Danny: How long will THIS take?

Cherie: It’s going to take 24 minutes. We’ll come and check to see if you and your diapers are dry then.

Lisa then she closes and latches the dryer door. Then she selects low heat and then she puts in three quarters and then she pushes the start button and holds it until the dryer starts. Then both Lisa and Cherie load the rest of the diapers and onesies into the other dryers next to the one that Danny is in. They set the temps for those at high heat and then start the dryers.

As the dryer started, Danny and the diapers began to roll and bounce around inside the dryer’s tumbler. The more he and the diaper he was wearing bounced around, the more his diaper began to show signs of wear and tear. The diapers all around Danny bounced and slapped him around all over his body. Danny wondered what was going to happen to him and all of his diapers after he and them were taken out of the dryer. Danny kept looking outside the window as he was continuously bounced around inside the drier. He watched as kids played and people walked by as they did their laundry. He also watched Cherie and Lisa as they folded other people’s laundry too. Danny also wondered what is going to happen to his sister and if she was being thrown away in the trash after she….got out of the drier.  Before Danny knew it, the dryer slowed and then stopped. As the diapers and Danny settled in the bottom of the tumbler, he watche3d as everyone outside the dryer was going about doing their laundry and waiting for their clothing to be done.

About 15 minutes later, both Cherie and Lisa came over to the dryer that Danny was in and opened the magnetic locking door.

Cherie: Well Danny…..Lisa and I are here to check to see if you and your diapers are nice and dry. Lisa steps closer to the dryer and then crouches down so that she can reach in and feel the diapers.

Lisa: Nodding to Cherie)  Yep, they are all dry. Danny? It’s time to come out of the dryer now.

Danny: what is going to happen to me…NOW?

Lisa: Well Danny, since we can no longer service you, you are going into the trash with all of your diapers and onesies.

Danny: NOOOOO! PLEASE! Don’t throw me…..away! I promise! I’ll be good!

Lisa pulls Danny and sees that he has wet his diaper and dampened a few of the cloth diapers underneath him.

Lisa: Well, we can either wash everything again or we can just throw you and everything away like this! Let’s just….throw you away like this….Cherie? Will you go to the office and get two of our big, black trash bags and then open them both, then double them up and then bring them over here to the folding table for me and help me get Danny and his diapers loaded up into the bag for me…OK?

Danny: What about that disposable diaper or my plastic pants? Can I get my plastic pants or one of my disposable diapers from my diaper bag put on over my cloth diaper at least?

Lisa: OH…yes…I almost forgot. Come with me Danny.

Lisa takes Danny out of the dryer and then puts him down onto his feet. Then she takes his left hand in her right hand and leads him over to the folding table. She then leads him into the office and then she lays Danny down on the floor and then gets Danny’s diaper bag. She opens his bag and takes out one of his medium sized adult white, crinkly plastic-backed disposable diapers that is really, really, really thick and already has three booster pads inside of it to make it EVEN thicker. Then Lisa opens the disposable diaper and then she lifts Danny up and then she slides the diaper under Danny and then she pulls the front up and then she fastens each of the three tapes on each side. Then Lisa stands Danny back up and then takes his left hand again and then leads him back out of the office with his plastic pants stuffed and sticking out of his open diaper bag, over to where Cherie and the laundry cart are right in front of the office at the folding table.

Cherie is waiting there holding the open black doubled up trash bags, waiting for Lisa to put Danny into the trash bag.

Lisa:  OK Danny boy…are you ready to be thrown away? It’s time to go into the trash bag now for disposal. Now be a good boy for me while I put you in there….

Danny: but miss! I don’t WANNA go in there! Can you please…change my diaper??? I’m wet!

Lisa: I saw that. You will just have to stay in the diapers that you have on. NO I am NOT going to change your diapers! It’s time to go into the trash bag now! Your diapers and clothing got ripped and torn up in the washer! Your mom doesn’t want you any more! We don’t have any use for you or your diapers so you and your diapers are trash now! I don’t care if your diapers are wet or not either once I put you into the trash bag!

Are you ready for trash disposal Danny”

Danny: NO! Please! Don’t put me in there! PLEASE!

Lisa: Ok…one…two…..THREE…UP and IN ya go! Now, can you be a good boy and sit Indian style in the bottom of the bag and stay that way for us while we toss all of your cloth diapers, your onesies, clothes and your diaper bag in there?

Danny:  Do I…HAVE…to sit?

Lisa: YES! If you don’t sit, I will come over there and FORCE you to!

Danny sits Indian style in the bottom of the bag and pouts!

While Cherie and Lisa start to toss handfuls of Danny’s cloth diapers into the doubled-up black trash bags, each diaper landing on Danny’s lap and as a large pile quickly forms on and around Danny, a few of the cloth diapers flop down and cover Danny’s head and face. The diapers begin to feel heavy all over him. Danny can feel the hot, smooth plastic side of the trash bag against his back and sides. As Lisa tosses in Danny’s open diaper bag the contents of the bag begin to spill out. His clean and still folded thick, crinkly Northshore Supreme Medium Overnight disposable diapers, the bottle of baby powder, the almost full pack of baby wipes, two extra onesies, a footed sleeper, and a full bottle of baby lotion all fell out of the diaper bag along with his plastic pants.

Then as the bag began to fill up, both Lisa and Cherie shook the sides of the bag a little so that the diapers and clothes would settle and fall further down into the bag, making it easier to tie the bag closed. Before Cherie began to grab wads of the black plastic ends of the trash bag, getting ready to tie the top of the bag closed, Cherie leaned down a little and looked down into the bag.

Cherie: It’s time to tie the bag closed now Danny, is there…anything you want in there before I tie this shut?

Danny: (Mumbling something muffled by the six layers of cloth diapers and clothing.)

Lisa:  Well Danny, It was a pleasure servicing you and your diapers. Sorry it had to turn out this way, but now…it’s time to tie the bag closed and then Cherie and I are going to take you right out to our dumpster out back and toss you in. Then you and the rest of the trash will wait until trash day when the trash truck comes. Then they will take you to the landfill. Bye-bye Danny!

Cherie then ties the bag closed tightly and chinches it with a double knot.

Then both Cherie and Lisa pick the very heavy trash bag up and they both carry it all the way out to the dumpster behind Excell Laundry. The bag gets put down for a minute while the locking lids are unlocked and swung open. Then Danny fells the bag being lifted and then the bag lurches and then lands into the dumpster on top of a lot of other crinkly plastic trash bags already in the dumpster. Then Danny hears the heavy lids slam down as they are lowered shut and then he hears the locking bar swing up and then she sounds of a pad lock being fastened in place and locked. It was dark in the trash bag and it was hot and stuffy in the bag. Danny began to cry a little bit because he missed his sister. Danny wondered how long it would be before the trash truck came and took him. Then night fell and it began to get cooler inside the bag. Danny now knew that it wouldn’t be too long before he would be taken to the landfill and left.

Cherie and Lisa go and get Tammy out of the dryer and then take her over to get her all dressed up in her nice, clean dress and her clean cloth diapers. Lisa puts Tammy’s disposable diaper on over her cloth diapers and then Lisa puts Tammy into her stroller then buckles her into it. Cherie and Lisa fold all of her clothes and diapers and pack them all into the laundry bags. Then Tammy’s Mom comes and takes Tammy and her clothes and diapers home, more than satisfied with the clean results. Tammy’s mom promises to bring Tammy and her diapers back when they need cleaning again.

Chapter Three

Stuck in Machine Four

On Wednesday  of the next week, Lisa comes into work at 7:00 and around 9:00 am, two men in lab-coats carrying six large bags full of very dirty ragged old cloth diapers that looked as though they had been used as cleaning rags on some dirty floor or dirty table or something. The cloth diapers smelled of cleaners, chemicals and some kind of blue, green and red gooey gel stuff that was sticky and all over all of the diapers and the 18 year-old thickly cloth diapered ,special needs boy that the other man in a lab-coat was carrying into Excell Laundry that day. The two men stopped at the office and as Lisa came out of the office, she greeted the two men.

Lisa: Hi gentleman, how goes it? May I help you?

Man in lab-coat-1: Yes ma’am. I was told that you could possibly wash these diapers and our lab test subject for us? If you can’t then…it’s ok…we will just…throw him and everything away in the trash.

Lisa: What IS….that all over him and all of the cloth diapers? I need to know so I can use the right detergents and pre-treaters.

Man in Lab-coat-2: Dirt, water, cleaning chemicals, and gels with experimental dyes in them that we are testing and some new foaming fabric cleansers. That turned the diapers that gray color you see. I assure you, none of the chemicals that we tested are toxic any longer and there is no worry of chemical reactions.

Lisa: Good. Then I will get everything weighed and then I will make sure that everything goes into…let me see here…machine…1, 2 and three are all in use…so machine 4 is available. I will get everything into washing machine 4 for ya.  May I have your diapered test subject boy there for a minute so I can weigh him?

The man in the lab-coat that was still holding the thickly diapered boy that they had used as a lab test subject was handed over to Lisa to get him weighed, she noted that he and his diapers were covered in stains and he was wearing two layered thick cloth pre-fold diapers with cute printed plastic pants on over the diapers with rubber “snappies” fastening the diapers. The scale read that the boy weighed in at 55 lbs. He was really skinny, almost bony Lisa notes as she wrote down the boy’s weight on the ticket and then she picked him back out of the tub on the scale and then handed the boy back to the man in the lab-coat to hold while she weighed the other six bags to verify that indeed the bags weighed 50 lbs each. After she weighed them all, they indeed weighed in at exactly 50 lbs each.

Lisa tallied the total up and the first man in the lab-coat paid in cash, a large sum of money with $400 extra dollars for Lisa to make sure to throw the boy and his diapers away if she needed to and couldn’t get the dirt and stains out. The chemicals were water salable and weren’t supposed to stain. Most of the diapers had dirt in them.

Man in Lab-coat-1: We heard about this laundromat from one of the people whose boy’s diapers and her boy got ruined and had to be thrown away. She told us to come here.

Lisa: OH…she did, did she? Make sure to thank her for me will you? Sure…I will give it my….best shot. I will have to run the diapers and…your diapered boy…there…through a couple of times in the machines with the extra rinse cycles though. If…I can’t get the stains out or the diapers to come out nice and white….do you just….want me to…throw everything, including the boy, away in the trash then?

Man in Lab-coat-1: Yes Ma’am….I do. Call us at the number on our card and let us know what the status is.

Lisa:  I will make sure that the diapers and the boy get really clean! I will call you if there is a problem getting the stains out.

Man in Lab-coat-1:  Certainly miss…I didn’t catch your name….

Lisa: It’s Lisa sir…..and your name is?  OH that’s right…it’s on the card….OK well I will call you by 12:30 pm and update you as to the progress.

Man in Lab-coat-1:  Thank you again. Bye now.

The two men in lab-coats leave and the boy and the very dirty diapers that they left are needing to get started in one of the washing machines. It’s now 10:00 am and Lisa takes one of the laundry carts and brings it over to the office to start opening the six bags of dirty cloth diapers and getting each cart-load into one of the empty and available $8.00 washing machines. Lisa opens the first bag and then empties all of the diapers into the laundry cart. Then she grabs the thickly diapered, stained up, dirty lab test boy, picks him up and lays him down in the cart on top of the dirty cloth diapers. The boy still has his printed plastic pants on that have little red hearts and teddy bears all over them. Then Lisa grabs several bottles of pre-treaters and laundry stain lifter chemicals, two bottles of chlorine bleach and then she grabs six boxes of powdered detergent. She puts it all into the cart and starts to roll the first cart over to washing machine number 4.

Lisa: (noticing the cute prints on the boy’s plastic pants) Those are some cute printed plastic pants you have on there…..they are going to have to come off though before I put you into the washing machine…OK?

Christian:  OK Miss. What are you doing to me? Where are you taking me??? Are you going to change my diaper?

Lisa: No, sorry….I won’t be changing your diaper just yet. You are getting washed in one of my washing machines.

Christian: NOOOO! PLEASE! Don’t wash ME! PLEASE! I don’t wanna be washed! I am comfy wearing my diapers as they are!

Lisa: You don’t have a choice! We are a laundry service! That’s what we do here! You and your diapers are GOING into the washer NO…MATTER…WHAT!

Christian:  What are all of these bottles and boxes for????

Lisa: Well, the spray bottles are laundry stain pre-treaters and stain lifters, the white bottles there are chlorine bleach that we use to get you and your diapers all nice and white and clean, and those small boxes there are powdered laundry detergents.

Christian: Are YOU going to spray…ME…..with all of those…chemicals and stuff?

Lisa: Yes…I am. When it’s time to load you into the washing machine, I will stand you up next to the machine, take your plastic pants off then I will start spraying you from head to toe with the laundry pre-treaters and then I will rub you all over with this stain lifter stick from head to toe. I will have to almost soak your diaper that you have on, with the pre-treaters before I smear you and your diaper with the stain lifter stick.  Then…I will load you into the washer, load a few more of your pre-treated diapers in there and then I will close and lock the door. OK…here…we are at washing machine 4. I need YOU…to stay in the laundry cart for me while I spray each and every diaper with these pre-treaters and smear them with this stain lifter stick…OK? It’s ok…if you wet your diapers more now…just try not to after the wash is done or I WILL have to put you and the diapers through another wash cycle…OK? You and your diapers are already going through TWO wash cycles as it is…don’t make me put you and them through a third…..

Understood?

Christian: Yes…miss!

As Lisa sprays the pre-treaters all over each diaper before tossing each one into the washer tumbler, Christian wets his diaper a lot and it soaks down into the cloth diapers underneath him.

Christian: Miss? Will that bleach hurt me at all?

Lisa: It WILL burn your eyes and might irritate your skin a little considering that you have all of these other unknown water-based chemicals all over you. That’s why we put swimming goggles on you, to protect your eyes from the bleach. I am going to have to spray some bleach water onto you and your diapers before I load you though because you have some many red, blue, green, purple and yellow stains all over your diapers and you.

What did those two men from the labs DO to you and your diapers? Where are your mom and dad?

Christian: Well, my mom and dad died in a fiery car crash 6 years ago. My aunt didn’t want to take care of me because I am a special needs boy. Instead of giving me to the state like most people do, she sold me to the labs and they keep me in diapers all of the time but they don’t change me much so when I am wet or messy, they leave me in the dirty diapers for long periods of time until it’s time to test something on me or they need me for some chemical test or they use some of my diapers for cleaning rags or something.

They have a whole room full of orphaned and special needs people in diapers!

Lisa: I’m sorry to hear that you have to go through all of that. But now, you are here and it’s time to get into the washing machine now. 

Christian: It’s time already? UUUUUH! How long will I be IN there?

Lisa: It’s going to take about 52 minutes. Then  after the two wash and rinses are done and the washer stops, I will come and check to see how clean you and the diapers are. I will then run you and your diapers through another set of double wash and rinse cycles before it will be time to come out and get into the dryer. OK, ready? Time to take those plastic pants off now…( Lisa pulls Christian over to the side of the cart so his legs are dangling so that she can take his plastic pants off. Once she has his plastic pants off, she tosses them on top of the washing machine until she is done loading the washer.)

Christian: what are you going to do with my plastic pants miss?

Lisa: I am going to wash them in one of our sinks then by the time they are dry, you and your diapers will hopefully be out of the dryer by then. OK, now, can you stand there for me so that I can spray you and your diaper with these three pre-treaters? That-a-boy….

Lisa then stands in front of Christian holding a spray bottle with spray-n-wash and then starts to spray it onto Christian starting with his chest, working her way down to his diaper. Then she sprays the front of his diaper very, very, very well with the spray-n-wash and then she asks Christian to turn around for her so that she can get his back side done well. Lisa then sprays the cold pre-treater onto Christian’s back and works her way down to his diapered butt, spraying the diaper until it is almost dripping.

Lisa: OK…now…for the second pre-treater spray……

Lisa repeats the process with the second pre-treater spray before she grabs the laundry stain lifter stick.

Lisa: Now, it’s time to put this nice stain lifter stuff on you and your diaper. Now I am going to rub this thing on your chest, neck, back, and all over your diaper before I do your legs…now stand still while I do this…..I see that your diaper is soaking wet too. They didn’t bother to change you before you were brought here huh?

Christian: NO miss. They didn’t. they were talking about just throwing me and my diapers into their trash compactor before the lab owner told the two men to take me down here and try to clean me up some before deciding to throw me away if the stains didn’t come out! I heard them talking outside the large room full of the others that they have to test on. The labs have already thrown away several others and a lot of cloth and disposable diapers too! Sometimes, in the mornings, they get their diapers changed and then they are taken out of the room for some…experiment and then they don’t come back and some other diapered person comes in and is put into the crib thing where the last one was.

Lisa: Is that so? WOW! I’m REALLY sorry about that. But now baby, it’s time to get into the washer now. (Lisa puts the swimming goggles on Christian before asking him to sit and lay down into the washer tub.) Ok…now…turn around and sit down on the edge of the opening for me…..goood! Now, can you lay down slowly? I will help lay you down in there…..

Lisa lays Christian down inside the washer tub then she swings his legs into the tub placing them out straight in front of Christian in the tub. Then Lisa continues to toss the pre-treated diapers into the washer on top of Christian.

Christian: These diapers STINK like pee, cleaners, and stuff! Do you HAVE…to put them all over my head and face through?

Lisa: Yes, I DO! The diapers HAVE to go in there with you to get clean! It doesn’t matter where they land! OK, last two diapers……and…there! Everything is in there for this load…time to close and lock the door!

Christian: How long will this take?

Lisa: This is going to take about 52 minutes the first time and then another 52 minutes the second time. See you in 52 minutes.

Lisa then closes and locks the door and then she reaches down into the cart, grabs a box of powdered ALL laundry detergent and pours it into the machine’s detergent pouch on top of the machine.

Then Lisa puts the empty tiny box of powdered detergent down into the cart and then grabs a bottle of chlorine bleach and then she opens it and pours in some into the bleach pouch. 

Then she comes over to the front of the machine, looks at the little screen and then selects a hot wash with two wash and rinse cycles.

 She then adds some money to the machine and then she starts the machine. First, the machine starts to fill up with hot water and as the water begins to flow into the washer tub, Christian begins to complain about how hot the water is!

Christian: OUCH! OUCH! That’s HOT water! TOO hot! Please make it colder! OUCH! OUCH! Hey…MISS? MISS! UUUUH! The soap is bubbling a LOT in here! UUUH! That BLEACH! It’s burning my skin miss! OOOOUICH!

Once the tub filled up to the half-way mark, the wash tub began to spin slowly. It tossed the diapers and Christian around and around  and around for the first 15 minutes. Then as the suds and bleach drained away and fresh hot rinse water rushed, gushed and flowed into the tub as the tub spun slowly, Christian landed on one of the bumper bars inside the tub and then bounced off it and then he got flipped head over heals as the wash tub continued to spin. The back of Christian’s cloth diaper got snagged on something inside the tub and the surface of his soaker pad in the middle of the back of his diaper got torn a little bit. Then as the wash tub continued to spin with the rinse water still flowing heavily inside, the rinse water stopped flowing after 10 minutes and then the water began to fill the tub up to the half-way mark again. As the new wash water filled the tub, more foaming detergents and more bleach flowed in as well as some fabric softener.

The thick murky, soapy, sudsy, foaming hot water agitated and splashed everywhere!

AS the wash tub spun more revolutions during the cycle, Christian’s diaper became more and more ripped along the tear that occurred. Now part of the back wing on the left side was starting to separate from the soaker pad a little bit now and a few holes began to form where the stains were. The stains DID come out, but pieces of the diaper also came out with them.  As the second 15 minute wash cycle came to a close, the second rinse cycle began. Again, the hot, fresh rinse water flowed and rushed into the wash tub like Niagara Falls water flows off the ends of the falls or more like when a dam releases some river water! Then…the spin cycle started after the ten minute rinse cycle ended. The wash tub began to speed up faster, and faster, and faster still! The gravity pressed and held Christian against the wash tub’s walls until the tub gradually slowed to a complete stop.

Disoriented and dizzy, Christian laid there with his head spinning and feeling rather…water logged. It was 15 minutes later that Lisa came over to the washer and unlatched and unlocked the door and opened it.

Lisa: So Christian……how was the spin cycle?

Christian: (in a dizzy, disoriented and almost drunken hang-over like tone) UUUUUUUUH! Get…your….OWN…spin cycle!

Christian then fainted and slumped back with his head falling back against some bunched up soaking wet ragged cloth diapers.

With Christian now unconscious inside the wash tub and his diapers still not as clean as she wants them to be, Lisa prepares to wash everything again in a second set of double cycles. She closes and re-latches and locks the door and then she pours more bleach and more powdered detergent into their designated compartments. Then she adds the $8.00 into the machine again and then she starts the machine again.  Another 52 minutes later, the washer stops and then about 15 minutes later, Lisa comes back over to open the door and get Christian and the diapers out and put into the laundry cart to take over to one of the larger dryers. When Lisa leans in to start taking everything out, she realizes that Christian has wet his diaper a lot and now she has to start the wash cycle ALL OVER again! She frustratingly shuts and locks the washer door again and then adds another box of powdered detergent and more bleach. Then she adds ANOTHER $8.00 into the machine and then she starts the machine again! During the middle of the first wash of the third time in the washer, the machine suddenly shuts down! The screen on the front of the machine goes dark. With the wash tub still full of dirty, soapy, sudsy, bleach water, that was the color of dark pee, it took about 20 minutes before Lisa realized that the machine had stopped and then she found out that it broke down in he middle of the first wash cycle too! First, she checked the power chord to makes sure that it was still plugged in, then she checked the breakers to be sure that none of them had popped. Not being able to get the machine to work, she called a mobile tech to come out. The mobile repair tech came out two hours later. After working with the machine and doing everything he could to try to get it to work and turn back on, he finally gave up and told Lisa that he thinks the main computer had gone out and then the motor shorted out after that. If there was any laundry still inside the machine, there is no way to get it out because the machine automatically locks the door to prevent the door from being opened while the cycle is happening. Lisa sighed and then called the owner to see what they wanted to do. The owner said to go ahead and get rid of the old machine and that  they would replace that machine by the following Saturday for sure.  Then Lisa asked the tech if there was ANY way that he could get the door open at all and he said that there wasn’t any way. Whatever was still in there, was going to go with the washer to the scrap yard to be crushed. Then the tech called ahead to let his boss know that he was taking one machine with some laundry still inside , over to the scrap metal yard. Then once the tech got off his cell phone, Lisa told the tech that there was a thickly diapered boy named Christian and his wet diapers inside the washer. The tech shrugged his shoulders and then Lisa gave the tech the rest of Christian’s diapers, his plastic pants and even some of the disposable diapers that were still in his diaper bag. The tech took it all and put it into the back of his flatbed truck with the two other scrap washing machines as he loaded the old broken down washer onto the truck. Lisa then tapped on the window of the washer to see if Christian was awake inside.

Lisa: HEY! Chris! Chris! Are…you awake in there?

Christian: Yes, miss…I am. What is happening?

Lisa: The washer that you are in has broke down for good! One of the techs has come to take it to the scrap yard. I’m afraid that they can’t get you or your diapers out either! They say that you and your diapers will get crushed inside there with the washer when they crush it! I’m terribly sorry! There isn’t anything I can do! Bye-bye Chris!

As the hydraulic lift-gate folds up against the washer that is now last in the row of old washers  and the tech ties and secures the broken down washer with Christian and a load of his diapers stuck inside, Christian yells and cries to be let out as Lisa simply waves back at Christian. Then the tech gets into the cab, starts the truck and then he drives away to the scrap yard.

Chapter 4

Brandon’s Shift

Laundry Disposal Time

It was a warm but comfortable Sunday afternoon around 1:00 pm when Jake was brought to Excell Laundry to get washed along with two, tall, 32 gallon Rubbermaid cans full of his wet and dirty cloth diapers, onesies, footed sleepers, printed plastic and rubber pants, and two pair of cargo shorts and three t-shirts. Jake was brought in by his mom and his dad who want to get him and all of his diapers and clothing washed.

Miranda, Jake’s mom and John walked in and up the slight incline to the office. Jake’s dad was carrying and bringing everything into the laundromat while Miranda, Jake’s mom, was bringing Jake to the office to see how much it would cost to have him and everything washed. 

Brandon, who is a strong, silent, introverted type, who works at Excell Laundry was the employee on-duty.

Miranda: (standing at the office doorway holding Jake’s left hand in her right) Hi, I want to know if you could wash my son and his diapers and clothing for us.

Brandon: Sure.

Miranda: Thank you.

Brandon:  Uh huh.

Miranda: Now, if my boy’s diapers are too stained up and the stains in his cloth diapers, clothing and or on him won’t come out, call me and let me know and I will decide what to do at that time…ok?

Brandon: Sure.

Brandon picks Jake up and puts him and his thick bulky crinkly diaper into the Rubbermaid bucket that is on the scale. The scale reads 45.8 pounds.

Then Brandon takes Jake out of the bucket and puts him back onto his feet. Then he weighs the diapers from each of the 32 gallon trash cans as Jake’s mom, Miranda, takes his disposable diaper off and puts it next to his diaper bag that is now in the office.

Miranda squats down and gives Jake a kiss good-bye.

Miranda: OK Jake, I am leaving you here with Brandon so he can wash you and your diapers. If these stains all over you and your diapers from that grape juice that spilled don’t come out of you or your diapers and clothing, then…..I might have to tell Brandon to throw you and all of your diapers away in the trash. Brandon is going to take you and your diapers and clothing to be washed  IF he has to throw you away, you will be thrown away in whatever you have on…OK? He doesn’t care what you are wearing or if it is wet or not when he throws you away either!  Don’t give Brandon any trouble…OK? I have to go now…MMMMUAH! Be a good boy for Brandon for me…bye-bye now.

Miranda leaves and then Brandon comes over to Jake and puts him into the laundry cart.

Then Brandon starts putting Jake’s clothes and diapers into the cart on top of Jake.

Jake: How come you are putting ME into the cart and why are you putting my dirty,  diapers on me?  HEY! Where are you taking me?

Brandon: (Silently pushing the cart with Jake, his diapers and clothing over to washer number 1.)

Jake: HEY! Do I…HAVE to be washed? I don’t wanna be! NO! Don’t make me!

Brandon: (Silently begins loading the diapers, the clothing and then he loads Jake head first into the washer then loads his feet and legs in last. Then he loads more diapers into the washer that are wet and some that have dried while being wet after Jake made them so.)

Brandon then closes the washer door despite Jake’s protests, and he ignores Jake and his cries to get out while he fills the washer detergent pockets with ALL laundry detergent in both powdered form and liquid as well as a little chlorine bleach.  

Jake: HEY! What are you doing? What IS that stuff? Let me OUT! I don’t WANNA be washed! I am allergic to bleach! It will make me break out! UUUUUUUH! 

Once the bleach and laundry detergent was added, Brandon then came over to the front of the machine, set the water temp to hot and then he put in $8 worth of quarters. Then he pushed the start button and then walked away.

As the washer began to fill with hot, soapy, sudsy, bleach water, Jake’s cloth diaper began to get more and more soaked and as the bleach came in contact with Jake’s skin, his skin began to redden and little rash bumps began to form on his hands, arms, feet, legs and face. It made him itch badly. Jake began to lean over to look out the window and all he saw were the top loading machines and another washer. Then someone walked by carrying their loads of laundry to load into one of the machines next to him. As the hot, soapy, sudsy,  bleach water was almost about to reach the half-way mark, Jake leaned over and started to knock on the washer door. Just then, the washer tub began to start turning around and around, making Jake bounce around inside. Water splashed and gushed everywhere as Jake, his thick and bulky cloth diapers and clothing slapped him and landed on him as he and the diapers and clothing were continuously tossed around for the next fifteen minutes. Then came the first rinse cycle. The soapy, sudsy, bubbly, hot bleach water drained away as more hot water flowed and gushed into the washer tub.

While Jake was bouncing around in the rinse cycle, Brandon had loaded a few of Jake’s diapers into a few of the machines directly next to the machine he was in and had started the machines. He wanted to hurry up and just get this load done so it was one less load that he had to do that day. At 2:15 pm, a mother and father walked in carrying their disabled boy who wasn’t able to walk who was wearing a cloth diaper with a thick disposable diaper on over it. The father was pushing a large container full of the boy’s cloth diapers and diaper covers into Excell Laundry. 

Annette: Hi there, We need to wash our boy, and his diapers. We heard from friends that you did a marvelous job on their boys and girls and their diapers. We would like you to do him and his large load of cloth diapers. How much is that going to cost?

Brandon: Let me weigh everything and then I will tell you want it will cost. Let me have your boy for a minute while I weigh him and then I will have to weigh his diapers.

Brandon starts to weigh Ethan on the scale. Brandon takes Ethan from his mom and then puts him into the tub on top of the scale. 

Ethan weighed 52 lbs exactly. Then Brandon wrote down his weight then picked him out of the tub and handed him back to his mother while he took handfuls of Ethan’s wet and formerly wet cloth diapers, diaper covers, onesies and a few footed sleepers and put them into the tub to weigh, one handful at a time. Once Brandon was done weighing everything and writing the weights down, the bill was $450. Ethan’s rich parents gladly paid the bill in cash and even paid $200 extra dollars in cash to make sure that if Ethan came out with bumps, bruises or rashes that he was to be thrown away in the trash. The mother and father both agreed that if Ethan and or any of his clothing was too damaged, that Brandon was to go ahead and just throw everything away after drying everything then to call either of them to let them know that he had thrown them away. 

Annette, Ethan’s mom, left Ethan’s diaper bag which had a pocket full of disposable diapers, then a pocket next to that one full of a few clean cloth diapers then the side pocket with baby powder, wipes, baby lotion, a spit-up rag old ragged cloth diaper), and  rash cream, in the office with Brandon who put it aside and out of the way.

Brandon: (to Annette: ) um, Ethan and his diapers won’t be done until tomorrow. He will stay in here until 7L30 am when Lisa comes in. Lisa will wash and dry Ethan and she will call you if anything happens and when Ethan and his loads are done…OK?

Annette: Sure…ok…sounds good.

Brandon hands Annette a receipt and then Annette hands Ethan to Brandon.

Bye, bye Ethan.

Ethan: NO mama! Don’t GO! Where are you going? Don’t leave me HERE!

Ethan watches as his mom and dad leave as Brandon is still holding Ethan in his hands.

Brandon then takes Ethan and all of his diapers still packed inside the rolling container that they were brought in into the office and then he wheels the container to the back room where he will leave it. The container still has enough room in it for Ethan to be in for the night until Lisa comes in the next morning at 6:30 am to open the Excell Laundromat. Brandon opens the locking lid of the rolling laundry container and then lowers Ethan down into the container. Then he puts the lid back on and then he lifts the handles that hold the locking lid down as the added measure of security. Ethan inside the container falls asleep because it’s so dark inside. He soaks his cloth diaper more and then the wetness gets into his thick disposable diaper that is on over the soaking wet cloth diaper.

Meanwhile, in washer number one (the $8 washer) Jake is just now going through the last rinse cycle before the final 2 minute spin cycle begins.

Once the spin cycle began, Jake began to get pinned to the wall of the washer tub with a bunch of his own diapers pinned to him. Then, once the spin cycle was over, the washer tub slowed to a complete stop. Then as Jake dizzily began to recover, he blurted out to himself:

Jake: (to himself) Get….your…OWN spin…cycle….uhhhhhhhhhhhh!

It was about 20 minutes before Brandon got the time to come get Jake and his diapers, a few white onesies out of the washer. Brandon unlatched the door lock and opened the washer door, brought the laundry basket closer to the opening then started to get Jake and all of the diapers a a few onesies out of the washer and into the basket. As Brandon reached into the washer tub to get Jake out, Brandon snagged Jake’s diaper along the seat of Jake’s diaper, ripping the soaker pad and the edge of the wing.

Brandon: (Whispering to himself) SHIT!

Then Brandon put Jake into the backset anyhow and then he pushed the cart over to the large Dryer. Then he opened the door and then he started to load Jake into the dryer then the cloth diapers and the few white onesies on top of him. Then, Brandon shut the door, and then added three quarters before selecting medium heat setting and then he hit the start button.

As the Dryer tumbler started, Jake and the diapers began to get tossed around and around again. It then started to get hot inside the dryer. Brandon was sweating and he had red bumps all over his body from being allergic to the bleach. Now Jake had bumps, bruises and some deep rips and tears in his diaper too. The tear was now fraying as he bounced around and around, hitting the bumpers inside the dryer tumbler.

Brandon then walks away  and starts to go unload the other washers with the rest of Jake’s diapers and clothes in them, taking them to other driers. Once those loads are started, Brandon goes back to the office and sits down, waiting for the loads to get done.

Brandon picks the phone receiver up and calls Annette. The phone on the other end rings three times before Annette picks up.

Annette: Hello?

Brandon: Hi, this is Brandon from Excell Laundry, Your son’s diaper got snagged on something in the washer and it has a large rip in it. What do you want me to do?

Annette: Oh…MY! Are any of his other diapers ripped or torn? Were you able to get the stains out?

Brandon: Well, there are a few of the stains that didn’t come out and four of his diapers and clothes are also slightly torn and ripped. No, I wasn’t able to get the stains out. Want me to wash him and everything again?

Annette: Yes, try that but if the stains don’t come out, then just go ahead and throw everything away, including Jake and the ripped and torn diaper he has on.

Brandon: Ok ma’am, will do.

Annette: How badly is…his diaper ripped?

Brandon: Oh it has a tear in the back and underneath his diaper where he was sitting on or bouncing onto something that tore it. It got worse when I pulled him from the washer.

Annette: Well then go ahead and put him and everything through the second wash and dry cycles then…take everything out and just throw it away in the trash afterwards…..

I paid for that second cycle, might as well get my money’s worth…right?

Brandon: I….guess…..I will get it done ma’am. Have a nice day. Bye.

Annette: Thanks for doing this…I appreciate it. You too…bubye.

They both hang up and then Brandon gets the cart ready to reload Jake and everything into to take to the same washer and repeat the cycles. Once the dryer stops Brandon comes over and opens the door and starts taking everything out including Jake.

Jake: it’s about TIME you came and took me out! It got…HOT in there!!!

Where are you taking me now???

Jake looks around and after Brandon piles all of the diapers from the dryer on top of Jake inside the cart, Brandon pushes the cart back over to the same washer and then unlatches and opens the washer door.

Then he starts loading the diapers back into the washer before he loads Jake back in there again.

Jake: HEY! HEY! STOP! I was already in there! How come I am being put in again????

Not getting any answer from Brandon as he continues to load the washer with the remaining diapers and the few onesies before he simply closed and re-latched and locked the washer door.

Jake: HEY! Let…me…OUT! Please??? How come I am in here again???? Please tell me……

STILL not getting any answer or response from Brandon, Jake knocks on the door to try to get Brandon’s attention.

Jake: HEY! Can I get out now…please? Wait! Are YOU putting MORE bleach and detergent in here??? I’m ALLERGIC to bleach! Didn’t you…SEE all the bumps????

Brandon pours the bleach into the bleach pocket on top of the machine and then he pours in some ALL Liquid laundry detergent before adding the $8 worth of quarters.

Then once that was done, he came over to the front of the machine to select the cycle and water temps. He selects hot water temp then selects the “extra rinse and wash cycles” before hitting the start button and walking away. As the washer fills with the hot water, Jake sighs and then slumps back, laying back on top of some of the now wet and soggy cloth diapers and onesies knowing what he is in for. Once the water level filled half of the washer tub up, the machine’s first wash cycle started. The soapy, sudsy, hot bleach water splashed and gushed everywhere as the washer tub tossed poor Jake and his diapers around and around for the next 15 minutes. After the fifteen minutes was up, the first rinse cycle started. As the wash water drained away, fresh, hot rinse water gushed and rushed into the washer tub as Jake continued to be tossed around and around inside the washer tub. After the ten-minute cycle finished, the washer tub began to refill with more hot, soapy, sudsy bleach water. Jake sat there as the washer tub filled and filled up with water right up to his neck. Then the second wash cycle started and it once more tossed Jake and the diapers and the few onesies around and around inside the washer tub.

As Jake and his diapers were busy being rewashed, Brandon was busy reloading all of Jake’s other diapers, onesies and footed sleepers into the other machines that were right next to him in the same row.

Once Brandon got the rest of Jake’s diapers and clothing reloaded into the other machines, he started each machine again and then walked back into the office to go sit down and wait for the machines to be done.

As the first 15 minute wash cycle ended, again Jake was tossed around and around inside the washer tub as the wash washer drained away and the first rinse water began to flow, gush and rush into the washer tub. Jake now had a TON of bumps, blisters and he looked like he had a rash and a sunburn. His ripped and now frayed cloth diaper was looking worse and felt looser on him now than when he started the first cycle. Jake wondered what was gong to happen to him and why he was put back into the washer along with his diapers again.

Want more? Read Chapter 5. (Link Below)

Laundry Day Becomes Disposal Day-Chapter 5

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