Meridian Cleaners & Laundry

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. A delivery driver once muttered under his breath as he approached Meridian Cleaners & Laundry: ‘I’ll believe it’s clean when I see smoke coming out of there.’ The next day, the neighborhood buzzed with whispers that the cleaner had started talking back. Soon enough, a regular stopped in and asked if they could try their luck with an old suit. Miraculously, it came out spotless—like magic. Word spread again, but this time it was different: everyone wanted to hear the cleaner’s witty comebacks. The delivery driver eventually returned, grinned sheepishly, and admitted, ‘Maybe it is clean after all.’

2. A delivery driver once muttered under his breath as he approached Meridian Cleaners & Laundry: ‘I swear, every time I come here, my package looks like it’s been through a wringer.’ Finally, one day a neighbor joked, ‘Maybe they should rename it “The Twister”!’ And ever since then, whenever someone picked up their clothes, everyone in town would ask, ‘Did your laundry survive The Twister today?’

3. Late one night, a delivery driver pulled up to Meridian Cleaners & Laundry and noticed something peculiar: an eerie humming sound seemed to be coming from inside the building. Curious, he cracked open the door—a faint glow illuminated old machines and empty shelves. Suddenly, a voice whispered, ‘Finally!’ Turning around, he saw only dusty racks and an empty room. Shrugging it off as his imagination playing tricks, he left—only to realize next morning that his uniform was spotless and folded perfectly.

4. Late one night, a delivery driver pulled up to Meridian Cleaners & Laundry and noticed something odd: an old man in a tweed suit was walking backwards into the building, muttering ‘one last cleanse’. The delivery driver shrugged it off as just another quirky local character. Months later, while dropping off some shirts, he casually mentioned the incident to the owner. To his surprise, everyone knew the old man—turns out he was just Mr. Jenkins, a regular customer who’d been coming there for decades. The driver laughed when he learned that Mr. Jenkins always walked backward into the store because he believed it brought him good luck.