Washing machines made their entry in India around the mid 80’s giving relief to maids who until then washed clothes by beating them on a washing stone!The first washing machines were the semi-automatic ones with separate washer and dryer and was replaced many years later with the fully automatic one. Today, every middle class household in India boasts of owning a washing machine, though the poor still use the traditional method -washing by hand.
So, I was mighty surprised when I saw this lady (coming out from my sons’s basketball class), who lives in a shack in a corner of a playground, but owns a washing machine! Times are a changing?
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Thanks! I too am intrigued by it !
Maybe she’s fallen on hard times, or perhaps it doesn’t work? 🙂
Well she’s been there for a while and it looks like a new acquisition. Whether it works or not is the question! I should find out next time I go there! 🙂
Oh do, it’s an intriguing situation!
How unusual! I wonder if others use it as well?
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It is unusual. i doubt that others woud be allowed to use it…unless she charges for it!
Where does she plug it in ? She could run a small business with a machine like that!
i wondered about that too..how does she get it to work? i’ll have to go back to investigate!!
W as in weird… 🙂
🙂 🙂
Truly intriguing. I visited Mumbai November of last year but didn’t have much of a chance to go around. This is an interesting story. 🙂
Thanks Myra! I stumbled on this story here in Bangalore! I’m sure Mumbai will have many more interesting and intriguing stories, usually not visible to the foreign eye 🙂 !!
Now that’s one smart lady! Wonder if she takes in extra wash to earn extra money… not a bad idea.
I’m sure she would… a hi-tech version of our dhobis!! (professional washermen who wash clothes for money )
washing machine without electricity? maybe you have to turn around an inside wheel by hand?
Buying a washing machine is less costly than buying a house. When people have no hope of buying a house, they buy what is cheaper, what gives the impression of having a home… And may be she feels at home at this place ? Even if there is no roof, no walls,…