Above all though, going to your local laundromat and waiting for your clothes to get cleaned would be a great way to run into some RP.
Heh, anyhow, sounds like a fun idea actually, wouldn't be bad to see it in-game.
I agree with Slither, and will echo his sentiment with the additional detail that we have extremely important locations available for tailors to lease and potentially work out that are largely ignored to great penalty of an entire skill group.
This sounds silly, but you'd need to rework the mechanics around the cleanliness of clothes entirely in order to make this something that offers movement and life to the game world. I could definitely see corpies hiring mixers to go run their laundry, or going out and doing it themselves, and that would be neat, but I'm not sure if it would be considered worth the time and effort to build new spaces and overhaul the existing systems.
I find object wear and tear and other types of item deconditioning or degradation to be very annoying though personally, so that heavily influences my opinion on it.
Actually, you can! Sort of! It's a different system than @blood_description and the circumstances are not quite what you're describing but the effect is similar. I am sure there are omissions but pretty much any activity that would reasonably dirty a character through doing it, does so. There is even two different elements of uncleanliness that are progressed and shown differently.
Making clothes get dirty more often, removing the shower's ability to clean and similar are less interesting to me. I'm not a huge fan of item maintenance and the like. That's a personal preference though.
As far as a place for people to run into and RP... I think it SOUNDS great but, based on other experiences, I doubt it will turn out as some envision. I've had characters spend huge stretches of time (up to 8 hours in a stretch) in Gyms, at pools, in food courts, at arcades, in pool hallls and more. I can't recall a single chance encounter. I can easily engineer an encounter about 1 out of 3 times but chance encounters very rarely happen.
Granted, one could argue people don't have reason to venture to those places outside of RP and by making visits to a laundromat essential for clean clothes, there is reason to visit those. But I've even had characters in clinics/ERs for hours with no chance encounters. They happen now and then but they don't occur as regularly for me as some might expect.
If players aren't going out to RP in the fairly large selection of locations we have now, I'm not sure why laundromats would be different outside of the the first few weeks when everyone's excited to explore the new thing. I'm not saying that this is guaranteed to be the outcome but I think it's likely enough that I personally would rather see staff effort put into other things before this.
