Quarters in college

Laundromats are fantastic inventions.  A place where we can collectively go to show that we care about personal hygiene.  I would like to bring up one flaw, and perhaps you can think of others. The machines at laundromats accept quarters.  Quarters are hard to come by.  I will take this one step further, quarters in college are even harder to come by, think about it. Do college kids have dollars? No we have pieces of plastic and change.  When you can't buy one scan tron with your plastic card, because the purchase does not cost enough, you begrudgingly give up one of your quarters. When she gives you your two cents in change you sarcastically say, "Thanks" but to your dismay it usually sounds sincere. Vending machines are another quarter grabbing invention of every institution.  The only thing different about vending machines is that they are almost change exclusive.  Try sliding your card in the dollar slot, it doesn't go over so well.  Those days when you are dying of hunger you look at the clock it says 10:00 am, you look down at your schedule it says "arrive home at 5:00 pm," and you have to decide if losing yet another couple quarters is worth not starving. You make a decision in haste and then you have 3-5 less quarters.  When you arrive home you realize your laundry needs to be done.  Being the college kid you are, you realize your quarter collection is dismal.  You once took quarters for granted, especially when you remember when your parents would give you quarters for turning off the lights or doing small chores.  Now its like "Where's my quarter now, mom?"  So you come up with  your excuses if you are not a boy as to why you are wearing the same pair of jeans for the fifth time.  "Umm yeah, so I was going to do my laundry and then there was a break in and they stole all the washers, but they left a bag of pennies." Sometimes I wonder if everyone decided to do their laundry on the same day would we run out of quarters?  And then I think no, because they don't have quarters in England.