Fluff & Fold

Americans behave badly abroad as cover for how well they live at home.

Nothing makes me happier to be here than the posh 24hour Supermarket selling Fresh Cut Flowers and Sushi at 4:00 am, just around the corner from the Corporate Housing Structure I call a hotel.

How about the friendly Cabs?

…And the Electronics Shops where they sell just-what-you-need-when-you-need-it?

…And the Starbucks on every block that hands you a stack of Free Coffee Vouchers for spilling a Frappucino on your hand bag…I noticed that on the back of them, it says they’re redeemable at all participating outlets in the US and Canada, and in England.

They know to leave the French out of the “Customer is King” game.

The best, though, is the Indian Laundry who does Fluff and Fold across all fifty States, and operates in the same colonies as Starbucks’ courtesy coupons.

Fluff and Fold: I take a bag of dirty Laundry, the clerk places it on a scale, tells me to come back in a few hours, charges me 10 Bucks ( currently 6.7 Euros ) and hands it back to me, cleansed and purified, tightly folder and shrink wrapped.

That is reason enough for me to know that I chose America as a place to live by Default.