Rearrangement of tables in the laundry room
By James Robert Watson, PhD
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Before
For over a year, I tolerated the arrangement of the folding table in the condo laundry room that formed a barrier between the washers (in the foreground of the pictures above) and the dryers. I, like everyone else, just stepped around the awkward placement of the table.


After
In August, 2005, I moved the table to open up access to the dryers. Sometimes, when I rearrange furniture in someone else's place (like in the elevator lobby of this same building), it is put back when I see the room the next time. But this time, when I went back to do laundry a week later, not only was the table still where I moved it, but there was a man in a wheelchair who commented how much easier it was for him to now get to the dryers.

Update
Of course, the table has since been moved back. Somebody, maybe one of the porters, didn't realize that it was a more efficient and convenient arrangement and just put it back the way he was conditioned to seeing it. But, I may try again.
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