The Laundry Man
As I mentioned in the About Page, my ridiculous sister has a habit of attracting and maintaining relationships with unstable people. I am not sure if it is an odour that she gives off or just that she has an odd way of seeing how absurd the situation is. When I first arrived in Phnom Penh, we stayed at a place that included laundry to be taken away to be cleaned, something like 100 pieces per month. We stayed for just longer than a month and by the end of it, I could not be part of the laundry protocol. You might think that having someone do your laundry is easier, but when you have to count everything out and mark every different piece of clothing down in different categories, it can be quite time consuming! My sister is more adamant about cleaning clothes than I am, so I let her take this responsibility. Since then, every time our laundryman came to visit he was ecstatic about counting our dirty stinking clothes. So much so that when the time came for us to leave he was dev...

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