Nope, not embellished as we had first hand experience with someone urinating in the dryers at a military campground. You could see and smell the urine in the dryer. Thankfully, I always check first before blindly throwing in my clothes. Not sure how the machines would ever be usable again. I certainly never used them again. I guess we have bad luck because we find laundromats to be pricey and dirty. Currently, we are without our 5th wheel on a trip and have had to use campground laundries. The wash price is $3.50 per load and $.25 for 8 minutes of drying time which includes cool down at our current campground. I really miss our stackable washer/dryer in our 5th wheel. And we can do laundry on our terms, not wasting time sitting for hours in a laundromats waiting for washers/dryers to become free, where the machines are always broken and the dryers take a fortune to dry. We usually do laundry once or twice a week and we do not even own 2 weeks worth of clothing as full timers.