Fresh traffic?

An interesting aspect of living in a large congested city is laundry. Everybody has to do it somehow so it’s not at all uncommon to see laundry draped around. Clothes dryers are still pretty much unknown, though nowadays one probably could buy one somewhere. Many of the buildings in this area have flat roofs with a room or two built on top with space outside for hanging clothes. I washed clothes yesterday afternoon. It was VERY warm in the little room where the washing machine is kept. But out on the roof was a glorious breeze. So, while waiting for the machine to fill (most are not automatic, and water pressure on the 4th floor isn’t the greatest) I could stand outside in the shade and cool off in the breeze. It’s also a good vantage point from which to observe the neighborhood so it wasn’t too boring. The machine has a spinner so the clothes are fairly dry when you pull them out. I hung them up in the breeze and two hours later they were dry. When I gathered them and took them downstairs I took a big whiff of the dry, still warm clothes. Ahhhh! Nothing like the smell of fresh traffic….