Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one that thinks doing laundry for myself and eight kids would make SENSE at a laundromat?

If I did it at my house with my one washer and one dryer, it would take days. Load a couple of the big industrial sized laundromat machines up and be done in a couple of hours.

Even if I DID have the machines, with eight kids I'd probably find it simpler to just do one (really) big run to the laundromat once or twice a week.

Good point.

But the issue of the children/laundromat is still irrelevant. Parents died -- died! -- along with their kids, pulverized by an out-of-control driver, and the reaction of some is to create a bogus scale on which to judge whether they are worthy of empathy. That is cold.

Total agreement with both of these things. Judgement of the families is a pretty disgusting reaction to have in the face of this kind of tragedy.

However, if the laundromat issue were relevant, which it is not, it would still be a really stupid way of deciding whether the mother was sufficiently responsible (financially and otherwise) to raise the family she chose to have (which really isn't a bunch of random strangers' business anyway...). There are plenty of perfectly good reasons to go to the laundromat.

I'm relatively well off (although probably not by the strangely high standards of this forum) with only 2 kids, but I've gone to the laundromat many times -
1. when our washing machine broke and it took around a week to get it repaired
2. when I need to wash bedding or something else that's too big to fit in our washer
3. when doing a ton of laundry at once, such as when packing for or returning from a vacation
4. between soccer games at one of my kid's tournaments to dry the soaked uniform
So, does that make me too "low class" and "irresponsible" to have kids or to be worthy of a compassionate reaction in the face of a horrible tragedy? Ridiculous . And pathetic. What kind of people are on here who actually think like that?