Spinningfields Dry Cleaners

You know you’re officially a grown-​up when you’re in the middle of talking to one of your friends and you utter those immortal words: «Anyway, I’ve got to go. I need to run to the bank and stop off at the dry cleaners’.»
In my head I’m still at high school, complaining that my mother has tidied my room thus I can’t find anything, wearing too much eye make-​up and dyeing my hair ill-​advised colours. In reality, I’ve got to deposit some cash in my savings account and I bought a trenchcoat from a vintage fair, got it horribly dirty by leaving it on a firebucket at Un-​Convention Festival and now need it to be clean. Heeding that ‘dry clean only’ label, I took it to the nearest dry cleaning stop I could find, right on the edge of that labyrinth of silver and wall-​to-​wall windowed buildings with famous bank names on the front; that maze of suits and cigarettes and Prets and Carluccios and happy after-​office hours and chrome benches on which to sit and strong caramel macchiatos… Spinningfields.
Right next door to Nisa’s convenience store is a simple, sparse, glass fronted shop with the recognisable yellow ‘Spinningfields’ logo on it and as Monica Geller would put it, «the dance of the clean shirts» in the background. I brought my poor filthy Columbo-​esque mack in and begged for it to be dry cleaned. Of course they obliged, and asked when I’d like it ready for. 24 hours was all they needed, and that was fine by me. Then they enquired as to whether I had a Yellow Card. Well lo and behold, one had been gathering dust in my wallet for the best part of a year. This is a free card you can request if you live near the Spinningfields area or frequent it often, and it gets you discounts at Manchester’s own Canary Wharf’s businesses. Obviously no one else asks you if you have one, but independents like this dry cleaners’ and Hey Little Cupcake are more than happy to offer you discounts.
25 hours later, I’m late as expected but there’s no fuss from the ladies at the desk. My crisp, clean, warm and lovingly ironed coat cost less than a tenner to dry clean and I was perfectly happy with it. Spinningfields Dry Cleaners, I’ll happily use you again for those purchases I made and didn’t realise at the time that I couldn’t just throw them in my washing machine. So quick, so cheap and so local too. Bravo.