Ryan McKern » common people http://ryanmckern.com Linux system administration out of the Boston area; loud music, sharp knives, and a slightly disturbing obsession with food. Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:53:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Class Warfare http://ryanmckern.com/2008/02/class-warfare/ http://ryanmckern.com/2008/02/class-warfare/#comments Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:08:22 +0000 Ryan http://ryanmckern.com/general/26/ I no longer define my class standing in terms of the money I've made or the things I own. It's not even something as pedestrian as the neighborhood I live in or the car I drive.

I now define it in terms of how much time I have to spend in laundromats.

Every time I go to the laundromat it is another trip amongst the masses, a bonding experience with my fellow prole… and I am counting the weeks until I can stop rubbing shoulders with the every-man.

While his distasteful tendency to overfill the dryer, hoping to save quarters, because he understands neither thermodynamics 101 nor the economies of scale regarding the endless wallet of quarters he drops into the overstuffed dryer that "just don't work" is amusing, his taste for $5.00 scratch-off tickets to pass the time between repeated drying cycles has finally gotten to me.

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