Hold That Laundry!

Monday is laundry day at the Riverside Rest. For once, I timed it right, too. When I arrived at the laundromat, the only person there was the older woman who owns it. By the time I left around 11:30, the place was packed, with at least four couples and three elderly people doing huge loads. The ice was gone as well, other than a few piles shoved against the curb.

When I got home, I ran Bowery Boys movies and folded and put away my clothes. Fighting Fools is one of the most melodramatic of the late 40s comedy-dramas. The Boys train a boxer who dropped out of the ring when he wouldn't take a dive. Slip talks him into returning to the sport to avenge his younger brother, who was killed during a fixed match. Sach is far more intelligent here than he is in later films. He gets surprisingly tough with the boxer's trampy girlfriend and is the one who saves the boxer's other brother when he's kidnapped and discovers how the gangsters are winning in the ring.

Hold That Baby! goes more into sitcom territory. The Boys find a baby left at their laundromat. The baby turns out to be the heir to a fortune. A pair of elderly aunts have no desire for the child to ever inherit that money, so they send gangsters to keep the Boys and the baby from escaping. Slip and Sach manage to escape and search for the baby's mother, who is being kept in a sanitarium.

It was a really nice day this morning, sunny and much warmer than it has been, probably in the mid-to-upper 40s. By the time I headed for work, however, the sun had vanished behind grayish clouds. It still managed to do its work. Everything was melting; the sidewalks on the Black Horse Pike were far more clear than they have been in weeks. It didn't start raining until I rode home, and even then, it was just barely spitting.

Work was steady all night, though not quite as busy as yesterday. We're still getting a lot of beginning-of-the-month people. I saw one family as I left with four carts filled to the brim with groceries!