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Xiao Hua：Recently, an official from State Post Bureau says that college students sending their dirty clothes home and their families sending the clean clothes back have become a regular service for the delivery industry. Is it true? Why would college students do so?
Zhou Heyang: I don’t think there is that much truth in it actually because I’ve read some follow-up reports. Well, this is all according to reports that this is not a regular service and a lot of university students are saying that this is a rarity. Like, I have never seen this before and I’ve only heard it as an urban lore that in some other university there are some spoiled student who does this, that posts dirty laundry to mommy and daddy and gets clean laundry as her or his parents post it back. So, I think that this is something that I’m not actually that surprised to see . Because first of, all it’s not that expensive, a little bit expensive like thirty yuan to get it back and forth by post. I guess if the parents agree to do this. Then why not, right?
John: I don’t actually understand how it’s feasible in any sense. If you are waiting to send your clothes to be washed, I mean we are talking about some pretty big boxes that you actually have to send. Clothes, I mean especially if they’re dirty ,you don’t want to fold them up and they take up a lot of space. So, again I really don’t see how feasible it is. I guess we’ve kind of talked about this before, here on the show and a lot of people like to point out how lazy some college students in China are. Number one I’m not so sure is that if it is the truth. Number two: While, yes there are more and more dorms that are equipped with washing machines, I think in general for university students around the world it is easier and cheaper to somehow get their parents to do it or at least take their dirty laundry home when they visit rather than doing it while actually on campus.
Zhou Heyang: So you are one of those kids, right?
John: Oh,yeah. When I was in university, I didn’t send it home and I didn’t make my parents do it either. But certainly we are talking about a process can take up two or three hours of washing and drying your clothes at a dorm and you have to basically be watching the machines all the time in case someone else comes around and steals your clothes.
Xiao Hua: Yes. That’s a possibility.
John: You know, that’s the thing, I’ve got other things to do. I gotta go to classes or I gotta go to the cafeteria and eat lunch and all sorts of different things. For me, at least when my parents were living closer, every month or so I take a visit and I bring all the dirty clothes I accumulated.
Zhou Heyang: For the record, I always set my own laundry. When I was living in dorms, I used the pay machines to wash .
John: Well, la-di-da.
Zhou Heyang: Yes, la-di-da. I didn’t really pay a lot for it because for these universities provided washing machines, they are pretty cheap to start with .
John: In the US they are not. They are anywhere like a buck to a buck and fifty.
Zhou Heyang: In the UK it’s not that expensive but still compared to sending it back home to China obviously that’s a good deal and also just wait in the washing room with a book or you know it’s a place you can possibly even have a date .
Xiaohua: Yeah, a laundry date
Zhou Heyang: Laundry romance, that has happened before. I don’t think it’s really that big of a deal and I think for most students it’s probably most economical and sensible to just do it yourself.
Xiao Hua: I think if you live within the same city with your parents then that’s okay because when I was in college, I kind of did the same as John did. I’m ashamed to admit it.
John: Why be ashamed, why does it matter? Really, who cares? Who cares what college kids do with their time and money? It doesn’t mean anything. People always like to blow it up and say, “Oh, Chinese kids are lazy. Oh, they’re spoiled.” I don’t think this shows any of that and we don’t really know if it is actually true.
Xiao Hua: Yeah, but if it is indeed true if people are sending their dirty laundries home with mail, that may be a little bit stupid.
John: I mean, whatever.
Xiao hua: Yeah, well. That’s it for this edtion of Round Table. We can keep arguing when we are off the show.
John: You are wrong.
Xiao hua: No, I’m not.
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