Drying clothes and other lessons from China

I know that this is a small photo, so it is not going to do it justice or even really show you what I was trying to express.  In this overly tiny picture, is a large skyscraper from Shanghai.  Actually, just click on the picture and it will go full screen.  Keep in mind, there are a couple of thousand of these throughout Shanghai.  I was amazed at the size of the city.  There are roughly 22 million people in this city.  Or at least that is what my cab driver told me in broken english.  I have not looked that up, so forgive me if that number is wrong.  Anyway, back to my point, they don't have clothes dryers in their apartments.  No one does.  So they resort to hanging their clothes, no matter the floor they live on, out their windows.  As you can see, on the 40th floor, they hang out their windows and put their clothes on these very strange 3-pronged devices.  Imagine the amount of clothing that "disappears" from these devices.  I was also thinking, if I like my neighbors shirt, with a long golf club or broom, I could change my whole wardrobe.  

There are a couple of things that are particularly humorous also.  One, is that their air-conditioners exhaust right into the clothes.  Secondly, the air is so think with smog, that it is palpable in the air.  Thirdly, there is no human way to wash/clean any of these hanging devices post the acid rain.  Anyway, I slip back to childhood as I remember the clean summer smell that embossed my clothing when we hung it out on the line.  Then, I wonder what stokes memories for these kids of the smell of "clean" clothes?  Anyway, I think that it might be best to just dry these clothes with a hair dryer or something.  I guess it is not my choice.