Come on down to the river with your laundry. Put a few coins in the slot and a rock is dispensed. Stoop down, deep knee-bend style, and beat your laundry with the rock until it's clean. After wringing them out, you may place your items out to dry on our conveniently placed large flat-topped boulders (for a few dollars more). Give your rock back to the attendant on your way out.-- Grogster, Dec 15 2012 [+] Dah! Don't mix colored and white loincloths!-- Letsbuildafort, Dec 15 2012 If you're going to wear a loincloth, be careful where you aim your treasure as you stoop down... you might scare the fish.-- Grogster, Dec 15 2012 I want a different rock. This one looks beat.-- cudgel, Dec 15 2012 Would it make you feel any better knowing the attendant sanitized it for your protection?-- Grogster, Dec 15 2012 Okay, I'm going down to the river to air out my dirty laundry right now.-- rcarty, Dec 15 2012 Widely Known To Exist - it's called camping.
Okay, the coin slot is a new wrinkle...-- normzone, Dec 15 2012 Be sure to ask the attendant about our new "One-Time Laundry Insurance" --- not everyone is careful with their rocks (or their soiled nappies).-- Grogster, Dec 15 2012 Rocks give ya that deep-down, caveman clean you just don't get these days.-- Letsbuildafort, Dec 16 2012 I think the whole beat-clothes-with-a-rock thing is fiction. I might push my clothes up against a rock, same as I'd push them against the side of a bucket, but beating sounds wrong. (Maybe somebody was softening leather or bark or something, to MAKE clothes ...)
Drying clothes on a rock works pretty well, though. I once rigged up a clothesline, while the local women were spreading their clothes on sun-warmed boulders. They were peeling dried clothes off the rocks while I was still trying to hang clothes without clothespins.-- baconbrain, Dec 16 2012 // As the stone mason said "it was gneiss work, if you could get it"//
HAAA!!!!-- Grogster, Dec 16 2012 //I think the whole beat-clothes-with-a-rock thing is fiction//
The origin of the practice likely began with the sad recipient still wearing said clothing during the wash cycle...-- Grogster, Dec 16 2012 random, halfbakery