spotted by anna on the wall of an apartment complex in phoenix…
meanwhile, in ottawa…it’s comforting to know that even when mom isn’t there to do your laundry, she can still help you guilt-trip your neighbors.
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#1
Moon
The first one is great. If the dryer is still going, you can’t take out somebody else’s clothes.
The second one is BS. Almost all dryers allow you to put in extra money. Also, how was the person supposed to know if it had been 5 minutes or 2 hours? Get down there before your time is up. It’s not that hard to do. I’m sure chit-chat with your mother couldn’t have waited 10 minutes.
May 28, 2008 at 11:50 am rating: +26
#2
Quite Contrary
The adjective and adverb work on these notes is outstanding! Meager? Superior? Rudely? Yet, all of those are overshadowed by VIOLATED.
If no one agrees, I understand.
May 28, 2008 at 11:51 am rating: +7
#3
zombieBlanco
I guess “my baby has thrush” is better than “I wiped my crotch with those baby clothes”.
May 28, 2008 at 11:54 am rating: +14
#4
KittyKat
Note # 2 clearly states that the RUDE person’s needs come first – the note-writer even says she UNDERSTANDS! So WTF is she bitching about? Geez!
May 28, 2008 at 11:58 am rating: +7
#5
Mishee
I wonder if Anthony Grosso wrote the first… after all, this isn’t the first time he’s been VIOLATED…
May 28, 2008 at 11:59 am rating: +1
#6
RunBarbara
i always like it when the punch line to a joke is thrush. i fall for it every damn time.
May 28, 2008 at 12:00 pm rating: +14
#7
blh276
Yeah the second Passive aggressor sounds like an entitled little madam, who assumes that the world knows it should wait 5 minutes or however long she’s on the phone.
(I’m sure its a young lady, and not a gentleman why is that?)
May 28, 2008 at 12:03 pm rating: +3
#8
KittyKat
I know a girl named Karma. She IS a bitch! And she’s fucking fat! WTF?!
May 28, 2008 at 12:04 pm rating: +32
#9
Laundry Nazi
Removing clothes from a still-running machine is unforgivable. But from a stopped machine? I give you a ten-minute window of mercy before I toss your clothes — clean or dirty, wet or dry — on the folding table.
You’re welcome.
Seriously. Dorms and apartments have way too few machines for you to leave your clothes in after the cycle is complete.
I’m glad you understand that my need for clean clothes comes before your need to be tardy.
May 28, 2008 at 12:05 pm rating: +24
#10
Mishee
This is why when I put my clothes in and leave the laundry room, I set my cell phone alarm for 5 min before the cycle is due to end…
I don’t want some strangers fondling my underoos and my footie jammies!
May 28, 2008 at 12:12 pm rating: +3
#11
Ashley
As the author of the second note, its common courtesy to leave clothes in the machine unless you are extremely lazy and are waiting an ungodly amount of time for someone to switch the loads. I couldn’t bump my mom off the phone as she was telling me how my grandmother was in the hospital (not exactly a social call). The clothes were still sopping wet because the second dryer is a little touchy – sometimes it dries things perfectly other times it doesn’t get hot enough to dry everything (dependent on how often its been used that day) so why waste an extra $2.50 on the dryer in CASE the clothes may not be dry… especially since the $2.50 is all in quarters which is a royal pain in the ass.
As far as leaving it on the extremely dirty / dusty shelf the is behind the dryers that was just uncalled for, my clean white work shirts got covered in crap that Im still in the process of getting out….
Oh, and I always time my laundry as the machines go in 20 min, 30 min and 1 hr intervals so its really not difficult to keep track of how long your clothing has been sitting in the washing machine or dryer. Like I said, the people in this building are usually pretty good about switching loads when they are done and being patient about waiting but this person apparently was not.
So lets hope that clears things up
May 28, 2008 at 12:14 pm rating: +4
#12
Some Lady
If the dryer’s still running, you cannot empty it – that’s fair enough. But the millisecond that baby stops a-tumblin’ I will get your clothes out of there and put mine in, even if yours are damp. What do I care?! And if the same thing happens to me – I seriously don’t care. “Oh well.” I say to myself. “I guess I’ll have to wait 45 minutes.” I don’t spend 1/2 an hour crafting a snotty note and whining. Jeez!
May 28, 2008 at 12:17 pm rating: +6
#13
claw71
The dryer is not a clothing storage device and you shouldn’t leave your clothes unattended in a public or community laundry room.
Here’s a hint from Heloise: on laundry day, take extra change and a book to the laundry room and don’t leave unless your laundry is going with you.
May 28, 2008 at 12:21 pm rating: +19
#14
anglophile
I think sometimes I forget to be properly grateful of having my own washer and dryer. If someone else takes out my wet clothes and throws them on the dirty shelf, I know it’s time to step up the meds to keep that second personality in check.
May 28, 2008 at 12:24 pm rating: +23
#15
amy d
Enjoy your yeast infection is totally my new way of saying goodbye to someone from now on.
May 28, 2008 at 12:26 pm rating: +20
#16
Thankful not to be Ashley's mother
Ashley, I’m a mom so I type this with the wisdom of a mother, knowing full well that your own mother has failed you in one very serious way by neglecting to teach you an important life lesson.
If you are of an age to live alone and do your own laundry, you are of an age to understand that the world does not revolve around your being.
You are not precious.
You are not perfect.
You are merely a member of society, as we all are.
You are of an age to understand that decent people do not inconvenience others and then whine, moan or write nasty notes about how others have reacted to said inconvenience.
I know that one day you will be taught this lesson by someone who should not have to do the work neglected by your mother.
Lessons learned so late after the fact are usually much more painful and protracted than those we should have learned at our mother’s knee.
I wish you good luck. You are clearly going to need it.
May 28, 2008 at 12:33 pm rating: +36
#17
claw71
If I violate your laundry you might not notice it right away.
At least for a few months.
May 28, 2008 at 12:37 pm rating: 0
#18
EB
I’d like to quote some laundry room etiquette from http://etiquetteer.com/columns/etiq4.27.html
“3. Please show courtesy to your neighbors by removing your clothes from the machines as soon as possible. Leaving clothes overnight in either machine is just plain rude anyway.
4. Other residents have permission to remove your clothes from the machines if they are in the way. If you do not like having other people handling your clothes, it is your responsibility to be sure that they aren’t in someone else’s way.”
May 28, 2008 at 12:41 pm rating: +14
#19
claw71
Isn’t it great when one of the PAN authors stops in and proves that they’re an even bigger asshole than we’d imagined?
I love this site. Somebody find Ashley a tiara…different from the one she already has of course.
And, Ashley, try to be more clever than turning my comment around on me. That’s so 60 notes ago.
May 28, 2008 at 12:43 pm rating: +20
#20
GhostWriter
“Enjoy your yeast infection,” chuckled the Cyclops Smiley.
May 28, 2008 at 12:46 pm rating: +2
#21
claw71
If the other residents in this building are lurking I want to encourage them to refrain from removing clothes from the dryers. Instead, plug a few more quarters into the machine and start the cycle over…right after you take a dump in that damp laundry. I know it’s a bitch to put off drying your clothes but trust me, your patience will be rewarded.
May 28, 2008 at 12:51 pm rating: +2
#22
GhostWriter
Picturing Ashley in her warm, wet, “meager” clothing has got me all atwitter.
May 28, 2008 at 1:00 pm rating: +6
#23
kiki
This is the best post evah!
Note 1 was heartfelt and unjust to the writer. Note 2 was douchey.
So I got tragedy and comedy all in one post. I feel so well balanced!
I love PAN…and now I do even more.
The comments to this post were truly the best. I was about to jump in and criticize Ashley (aka Douchey)….but everyone thoroughly beat me to it. And did a much better job than I ever could…which was so rewarding to read.
And to have her drop in and clarify her note….amazing (if it is true…which I think it is…damn it!…let me have my dreamworld!)
Man, I hate people that leave their clothes in the dryer or washer after they are done like they are entitled to the world. Or that get all upset when they find that unimaginably it has been removed by the next customer in line.
I used to live in an apartment block in Ottawa (no less, home of Ashley) where tenants would leave their laundry for days in the washer. Washer! I’m not even talking about the drier. You could work around them and put their clothes back in the washer without them even noticing the world had moved around them. Or worst yet, you’d come down after being away for a week and find their crusty crumpled dried-out clothes inside the washer like a hairball of ignominy.
Or you’d move their wet laundry (from the shoddy drier) to the folding table…only to see it sit for 3 weeks untouched. I could never understand that. Who washed and dries clothes they never pick-up? And how can you not notice that you never picked up your laundry? You’re gonna run outta gitch some time!
Perhaps too many clothes…too many quarters…not enough cents [sic]
There was a similar PAD at one point at my apartment…so who knows…maybe I was living with Ashley? Thank God I live in a house and have my own drier and don’t have to deal with the self-entitled of the laundry world…
May 28, 2008 at 1:05 pm rating: +6
#24
just wondering
I scattered someone’s clothes all over the laundry room floor once…and even did a little dance on them for good measure. Of course, it was revenge for the fact that they had taken my single white shirt that I had for work, ( that I had just touched up by hand and thrown into the dryer )out of the dryer long before the dryer was up, apparently kept it since it was nowhere to be found…and was using my time left on the dryer to dry their damn clothes! So yeah…on the floor, a little dirt thrown in and a two step…bet they never did that again!
May 28, 2008 at 1:11 pm rating: +6
#25
claw71
I have a serious question:
Is it possible to dry hump wet clothes?
May 28, 2008 at 1:17 pm rating: +1
#26
LeslieC
Love letter #1’s use of the self-righteous “I Have a Baby So I Must Be Important” strategy. She did have a justifiable complaint, but leave off the Martyred Mother tone and it would be stronger.
May 28, 2008 at 1:35 pm rating: +4
#27
Dr. Rob
I am a pediatrician. You don’t get yeast infections from puke of babies with trush. Karma’s bad, but not that bad.
May 28, 2008 at 2:07 pm rating: +6
#28
Smoky2010
You know, as a laundromat dweller for 15 years. If you aren’t there, and the machine stops and someone else needs to use it.. too bad, your stuff comes out and there’s goes in.
If you leave your stuff unattended in a laundromat, your a moron.
May 28, 2008 at 2:07 pm rating: +2
#29
treb
I think the bigger offense here is that Ashley contributed her OWN passive aggressive note.
May 28, 2008 at 2:08 pm rating: +15
#30
Garcy
How come no one is busting on the mom who put her yeasty baybee’s (As in “My baybee is obviously the most precious thing on the planet) clothing in the dryer?
Where it could infect other people’s clothing?
Let’s rag on her, the bitch. Spreading her spawn’s infections on the world. Typical breeder mentality.
G
May 28, 2008 at 2:12 pm rating: +1
#31
Sue
I once waited 30 minutes for somebody to remove their dried clothes from the dryer before I finally pulled them out and put them on the folding table. I loaded my wet stuff in and started it up for a 45-minute run. I came back 45 minutes later to find that my clothes were GONE and the dryer still had 35 minutes left. Clearly the person was so pissed off that I’d DARED to touch their stuff that they threw mine away, still wet. That’s the gratitude I get for being PATIENT.
May 28, 2008 at 2:14 pm rating: +2
#32
secondsout
When I was in college, I would occasionally miss the time and forget to go get my laundry in an efficient fashion. Subsequently, I’d find my laundry in a big wet heap on the laundry room table. Now whose fault was that? Sounds like mine. So I would have to wait until a dryer was empty. Them’s the breaks. Though I once came back after leaving my clothes in the dryer to find them nicely folded on the laundry table. Me, I would have just dumped the dry clothes onto the table. Whoever actually folded my clothes is an angel. Thank you, clothes-folding-person, whoever she is. (no guy would have done that.)
May 28, 2008 at 2:27 pm rating: +2
#33
secondsout
Just what is “clearly superior” clothing? Is it the sort of Abercrombie and Fitch shit that frat boys wear?
May 28, 2008 at 3:02 pm rating: +4
#34
Lurker
So, by her own reasoning (the clothes are contaminated until they’ve been dried on high), she exposed whoever used the washer after her to thrush. B**** deserves to get her clothes scattered, then!
May 28, 2008 at 3:56 pm rating: 0
#35
claw71
To the tune of Sharp Dressed Man by ZZTop:
Clean shirt, still wet
She’s out of quarters so she had to jet
Mom called, grandma’s why
She kept on talking and she couldn’t say bye
Her clothes got dumped and they’re covered in mold
That’s why folks are crazy about that Fluff-n-Fold.
Drop it off, pay the clerk
they do your laundry while you’re at work
Coming home, the clothes are clean
And you don’t have to worry about a bad machine
No angry tenants stealing your vintage clothes
Everybody loves to do the Fluff-n-Fold.
Cheap Skates, always balk
They overload the dyer and walk
Baby clothes, Walmart crap
It might work if you cleared the lint trap
They leave you notes because they aren’t bold
That’s why I trust my clothes to the Fluff-n-Fold
May 28, 2008 at 4:21 pm rating: +6
#36
Ryan
I just want you all to know how much I love this damn blog. These comments make my day.
And for the record: Agree with the First Note. Second Note – pathetic and soooo very passive agressive. A gem!
May 28, 2008 at 4:52 pm rating: +1
#37
Anna
I personally know the girl who posted this note. Her babe was in the hospital with RSV for two weeks and was receiving rounds of antibiotics “just in case”. He developed thrush in the hospital.
These apartments are too shitty to have enough room for a washer AND a dryer, so she has just the washer (cloth diapers… fabric softener residue on the drums of public washers makes them less absorbent so we use our own washers) and dries in the complex’ dryers.
This happens all the time in this complex. I thought it was a pretty damn funny way to make people think twice about screwing with someones laundry… but of course, the complex dolts have already removed it.
May 28, 2008 at 6:04 pm rating: +1
#38
Vampy
I once had someone start to take my clothes out of the dryer the moment it stopped…WHILE I WAS THERE!
Because I despise the thought of strangers touching my freshly washed clothes, I always bring a book to the laundry mat and stay there, which means that once my washer stops, I’m right there to empty it, same with the dryer. One day this complete bitch came into the laundry mat a few minutes after I did, and it was a busy busy day. She was generally bitchy to everyone there. I got the dryer before she did (as my wash finished first and a dryer was surprisingly avaliable because someone else had just removed their stuff from it). I guess that ticked her off because she leapt across the damned room the moment it beeped to start pulling out my stuff.
While I myself never touch other people’s clothes at the laundry mat, I generally understand if someone has left their stuff for hours on end, you take it out. But to be so damned impaitent as to remove it because I couldn’t cross the room as fast as you, and then dare to bitch at me when I ask you to stop touching my stuff…..boggles the mind.
May 28, 2008 at 6:10 pm rating: +3
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May 28, 2008 at 6:45 pm rating: 0
#40
cricket
talk about a ‘fluff-n-fuck you’ job
May 29, 2008 at 3:24 am rating: 0
#41
Ang
people are such inconsiderate selfish assholes.
May 29, 2008 at 1:32 pm rating: 0
#42
2bMe
If you are that frickin impatient. I would like my pants creased and all my shirts pressed .
Thank you.
May 29, 2008 at 3:54 pm rating: +1
#43
andipandi
While ashley should have been there when her laundry was done, it is really rude and PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE to toss the clean stuff on a dirty shelf. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
It should be policy to leave your basket next to the dryer so that if you’re late and people are in a hurry, they can put it in the nice clean basket instead of flinging it everywhere. That’s what we used to do in the dorms. (Yet some bitch stole my crew Tshirt!)
May 30, 2008 at 11:17 am rating: +1
#44
aliastaken
@ Quite Contrary, sure meager is a great adjective, but it’s spelled wrong in her note!
I had two of my favorite shirts stolen out of a washing machine in college. I can still get worked up about it if I recall if for too long.
May 31, 2008 at 8:10 am rating: 0
#45
Olivia
For some reason, I always think the content in notes like #1 are completely fabricated. For example, I think she thought something like, “Grr…I need to write something to make them feel like THEY were the ones who got screwed over.” Those notes just come off as sounding so “Nya nya nya nya nya”-ish to me.
May 31, 2008 at 7:21 pm rating: 0
#46
maytagman
Oh yeah, these notes remind me of why I bought a washer and dryer in the first place. BEST> PURCHASE> EVER!!
Jun 1, 2008 at 1:27 pm rating: 0
#47
maytagman
Reminds of a time just before I got my own washer/dryer: Someone left a pile of dry clothes in our tiny laundry room for weeks. No one stole anything either, the pile just sat there quietly waiting for its owner. It was sad, a mystery… Did someone die on their way down to get them? Were they abducted by aliens? What in the hell happened? Since I got my own washer/dryer soon after, for all I know they are still there … I would go check but the laundry room brings back very bad memories for me. Memories you have all made so painfully clear…
Jun 1, 2008 at 2:14 pm rating: 0
#48
laundymatt
Hey I worked in this little neighborhood laundromat cleaning up at night. All I did was wash the washers, take the trash out, mop the floors and lock up. The place didn’t have a/c and there was a bar next door.The washers and dryers were frequently left unattended. Anyway this guy came in started the washer and left. Just as the washer stopped this lady came in went straight to the washer unloaded it to the dryer.Then she had waited for it to dry, folded it, loaded it into the baskets and left. A few minutes later, as I’m mopping the floor, the guy is back. I told him his wife had finished his laundry and left.
He asked me what I talking about that he didn’t have a wife. Then he got mad at me for not watching his stuff. I was 16 then how was I to know.There were signs on every machine not to leave their laundy unattended.
Jun 2, 2008 at 12:11 am rating: 0
#49
Mera
My roommates stared at me aghast when we first went to our dorm, and had the problem of people leaving their shit in the washers and dryers for extended periods of time, and I would just throw their shit on the ground. Sometimes, when in a good mood, I’d toss it onto the washer/dryer.
See, I also timed myself so I was always in the room 15 minutes early IF I had to run back upstairs… why… because if someone else came in and was waiting before me, they’d get first dibs on the washer/dryer that I was originally waiting to re-use. It doesn’t matter if your clothes are in the damn thing; if you’re not there, you’ve lost your place in line.
Jun 2, 2008 at 5:21 pm rating: 0
#50 thrush mouth
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#51
Drake
Nope to the second one. For all the “offender” knew she had gone out on a night on the town and forgotten her laundry was even in there. Was he, and the entire building, supposed to wait for her convenience. I think not. Stupid woman.
Jun 4, 2008 at 6:14 am rating: +1
#52
Russ
Hilarious. There are some sick people out there. The yeast infection thing was too much…
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Jun 7, 2008 at 3:17 am rating: 0
#53
Crustimoney Proseedcake
I love the first note. Revenge!
Jun 10, 2008 at 8:30 am rating: 0
#54
Skanky Skeezer
People get really bent out of shape over this. I tried to be nice and wait for the neighbors to get their laundry out of the dryers but after 3 hours I just took it out. I actually dried all my stuff, went back downstairs and they still hadn’t retrieved their laundry. I’m a weirdo so I just put their shit back in the dryers after I took mine out. I’m nice like that.
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