It seems only human to sully one's work clothes in the normal course of events and thus from time to time it's useful to have them cleaned. Our neighborhood is filled with dry cleaners and one in particular is just two blocks away, right on the way to the kids' school. How convenient. Tracy was going to drop off a couple of my dress shirts on the way back from taking the kids to school, but her new friend Julie (a mom from school), with whom she was walking, told her to not bother. The price for laundering a shirt? 3.5 pounds. That's right - $7 to wash a shirt. I've found it pretty difficult to process what that even means. Our local place in Chicago charged something like $1 for the same, but understanding this price seems immune to any sort of comparative exercise. It's simply absurd. There's hardly an oligopoly in the north London dry cleaning market, but there aren't many shopkeepers who appear to have an interest in price competition. Curious (male) readers will want to know the price for dry cleaning a suit. The answer, predictably, is $16. I've already become somewhat inured to paying $4 for a cookie for the boys (that's each, not for 2) or $4 for a one-way Tube ride, but I can't really process this dry cleaning thing. If you have an explanation, please comment.
The only silver lining to this little experience is that Tracy's friend noticed that Kelly Osbourne had just walked out of said dry cleaner. Having earned her chops acting like a spoiled brat and all-around moron on her eponymous MTV series, she was clearly well qualified to play Mama Morton (cf. Queen Latifah in the movie version) in a West End production of Chicago. The reviews have actually been pretty good. Good for her. For some extra celebrity gossip, the debut performance of the musical was delayed for a while because KO's friend and tabloid favorite Amy Winehouse was delayed in getting to the theatre. Despite her lyrical admonition to not go to rehab (no, no, no!), she did go to rehab recently and has been a bit sluggish since getting out.
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