I'm at that point in my trip where getting things done in a foreign
country seems so difficult. For instance, getting shirts washed and ironed. Do
you go to the
5 a sec chain where
it's $4 a shirt, the shirts come back wrinkled, and the troll at the
counter is mean?
Or do you go to the
local pressing where it's $8 a shirt, the shirts come back perfect,
and the mademoiselle at the counter is so lovely and nice you wish you could
ask her out?
Either way, it's a lot of money for a shirt compared to $1.25 in the
US. But then again the shirts are hand ironed, the staff is being paid
a living wage, and the experience is altogether more personal. But I
feel certain it's possible to get a shirt done right for, say, $5. if
you just knew where to look. My Parisian friends just have their
cleaning lady iron their shirts. Cleaning lady; how do I hire one of those?
