I pay the price for not having a washing machine at home

In Buddhism, ignorance is a sin, the kind you do penitence for. You may think this is harsh - how can stupid people help themselves? - but the fact is, stupid people harm others with their stupidity.

I experienced this first-hand today when I received my laundry back from the laundrette I have been taking my clothes to for the past eight months. Whoever it was who had done the laundry had decided to throw into the washing machine my woolen winter coat that I had intended to be dry-cleaned.
"You must have seen that it is a coat, and that you don't normally wash a coat," I said to the shopkeeper.
"You give me laundry, I don't check everything, I wash," she replied.
"You mean even if it is obviously something that has to be dry-cleaned, you will throw it into the washing machine?" I said, raising my eyebrows, clapping my hand over my forehead, and showing with as much drama as possible my disbelief. The language barrier has to be overcome, but with civility, afterall - I can't move laundrettes everytime something like this happens. There are only three laundrettes near my house. The lady smiled. Her smile does not indicate that she is happy about the situation, it just means she is awkward about this. That was my cue.
"I am not saying my maid did the right thing by giving you everything at once," I said, "but I think you should agree that washing a coat is not right. I don't think I should pay for this laundry."
The lady sighed and nodded,"OK, you don't pay."

"I would have killed that lady and your maid," Chinese Sad Associate said when I told her what had happened over our usual morning coffee.
"If someone doesn't have any common sense, you can't say much," I said. "Do you need a formerly medium-size but now small-size brown coat?"