Laundry.

My parent's laundromat is not like spending Christmas with your boyfriend's family for the first time. I don't have to be extremely careful to make a good impression. I can easily be myself whether I'm in a good mood or bad mood. It's not necessary to stop and think for those extra seconds or perhaps minutes about what is appropriate to say or do. Meeting new people (customers ta the laundromat, family members at Christmas) isn't weird and nerve-racking. Handing things to customers or workers is not even close to possibly being as awkward as passing the gravy to Mrs. So-and-so. There's no reason to be timid-- unless you want to be. Uncomfortable is a non-existing adjective in the laundromat, unless you're wearing those jeans that are too tight, or there's a strange drunk man in the store.