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By: Mikolai Napieralski
Date: 17th Jun 08
Ambience: Indoor
Difficulty: Won't hurt a bit
What:
Laundry Mat #2 - Shiners Ezy Wash
Where:
Behind the Coles in Prahran
How much:
$5 per wash
Shiners Ezy Wash is a laundry mat straight out of the future. Or what the people who did set design for Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure imagined the future would look like. The domed ceiling, neat rows of metallic machines and white paint job certainly give the place a clean, futuristic glint. If you're not suitably impressed by the interior design there's a sign on the wall telling you all about how awesome the laundry mat is.
Basically, they claim to be Australia's best laundry mat and then go into great detail about how their machines come from some secret US military lab and are sprinkled with dead unicorns' magic dust. Or something to that affect.
To be honest, the only real criticism we can level at Shiners Ezy Wash is that the place lacks character - it's all a bit too clean for our liking. But hey, sterile is probably a good place to be when it comes to laundry mats. There's a time and a place for reckless abandon and laundry is not it.