"Clothes won't dry" weather

When Sam and I lived in West Sacramento we didn't have washer and dryer.  My weekly routine was to bring baskets of dirty clothes to my parents house, separate the lights and darks, start a load of wash and then come back in a day or two to pick up baskets of clean laundry. (Thanks Mom!)  I used to tell Sam that I would be happy when some day I could do a load of laundry anytime I wanted.  Well that day has come and yet I've found I something else to complain about. We have a pretty good washing machine but no dryer.  Actually no one here has a dryer.  Almost every apartment has a section or small room with lots of windows and a place to hang clothes.   There are also no laundry mats you can go to use a machine to do your laundry.  There are dry cleaners but if you don't have a washing machine at home most people wash all their clothes....by hand!  It sounded crazy to me the first time I realized some people wash  ALL their laundry by hand.  I used to think that you only wash things "by hand" if the label said so, and even then my "hand washing" was really just the washing machine on delicate cycle. So I know I'm already a little privileged just by having an actual washing machine in our apartment.  Still, I long for a clothes dryer.  I tried explaining what a dryer was to one of my english students and she couldn't understand why anyone would need it.  I suppose in the colder months when the radiators are going full blast and your clothes dry in less than an hour its not that necessary. But in the rainy summer I dream of  clothes fresh from the dryer.  Yesterday I did a load of clothes in the morning and when I came home in the evening they still weren't dry.  When they finally were dry they had that slightly sour smell and so I had to start all over again. I may have to use my hair dryer or plug in my electric heater for the second round.   I know many of the chinese here have this problem as well because sometimes I smell the same sourness on people I'm next to on the bus or subway.  I guess slightly sour smelling clothes is just a part of life when its what I call: "clothes won't dry" weather.