Comments on: Sunday night laundry room showdown

By: Angie

Angie — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:38:39 +0000

When I was away at college, it was standard practice that if you had to leave the laundry room for any reason, like to get something from your room, you left a sticky note on your machine with your phone number and room number so that people could call you to complain. All of us had a pack of postits in our laundry baskets, just in case.

By: Seanette

Seanette — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:08:09 +0000

My vote would be “you do realize other people use the laundry equipment I was just using, right? You do realize that sometimes small items fail to stay with their original load and get left in a machine that later gets used for another load, right?”

By: Calli

Calli — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:12:32 +0000

Team move your shit. How hard is it to set an alarm/look at a clock?

Short version: I removed stuff from a drier and got my stuff dried and folded before one of my neighbors bothered to show up and take care of her stuff.

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My building has 2 washers/driers for 16 units. My apartment is right next to the laundry room so I checked periodically throughout the day (on a Wednesday) for a free machine to do one load.

All day there was stuff going. I wasn’t timing machines or anything so I just figured one person finished and the next person got in before I got down there. Finally at 9:15 pm I found the washers empty and the driers going. I thought it was odd that whoever it was set the driers for over an hour when they can usually dry a completely full machine in 30 (the time a load of wash takes as well.) So, I decided to come back at 10:30, giving the person a 15 minute window to empty a drier once their load was done.

10:30 rolls around and I see a girl unloading a drier onto a table. She starts apologizing to me, which left us both confused for a second. She had used the other washer while I was waiting for the driers to be free and thought she was displacing my clothes. Once we figured that out I emptied the other drier onto the table and started my stuff for 30.

Came back, unloaded my drier and started folding while I ran the towels for an extra 10 minutes. Just as I was folding the towels the owner of the displaced laundry comes to get her stuff. An hour after it was done.

She was a bit annoyed that we took out her laundry, she didn’t think anyone would be doing laundry “that late.” I mentioned that I had been trying all day but the machines were always in use, so I jumped on the chance when I saw them free. Turns out she had been using the two sets of machines all day to take care of 14 loads.

At that point I “casually” mentioned a laundromat down the road that has lots of machines (and some nice big ones too) that I use whenever I have a few loads saved up, or need to do stuff too big for the little apartment machines.

The other girl’s drier was about to finish as I left, so maybe the hog got to chat with her too. I’d like to think that having two people empty the machine on her “behalf” and have their stuff almost done by the time she bothered to get down to the laundry room would have a greater effect on her than it just being one person.

Icing on the cake: Went back the next morning to throw my slippers into a drier for 10, floor was cold and I wanted toasty feet. The hog folded her stuff and left it down there on the folding table. The aggressive part of me wants to take advantage of the sign “all items left outside storage bins may be removed” and hide the piles on her. Let her whine to management “I left my stuff in the laundry room overnight and it went missing” and let them laugh in her face.

By: Just Dropping By

Just Dropping By — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:10:16 +0000

Rattus, take your own advice.

If hey! likes stupid generalizations, what’s exactly your problem with me giving them one?

By: redheadwglasses

redheadwglasses — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:41:26 +0000

I get up early — 6 a.m. — on weekends to use the laundry room. I sometimes do a lot in one day, so that way, if I am doing laundry for four or five hours (yeah, I know), I may be hogging the machines, but I’m done by 10 a.m.

My downstairs neighbor chastized me and told me that I needed to stop doing laundry so she could use the machines. I told her that one night, I DID stop so her boyfriend coudl do a load, and then he left his laundry in there for two hours after it was done (of course, I had to get it out of the machine so I could continue with my own laundry).

She tried to make excuses and insisted that I was rude for hogging the machines (one washer, one dryer), but I told her to take her fucking whining somewhere else and slammed the door in her face. Later, neighbors told me that she went door to door in the building to complain and get sympathy, and the general response she got was: “What are you, 13?”

This is the woman who left a note on my door with a key: ” I’m going on vacation for 10 days, can you take care of my new puppy? thanks.”

(I had my own dog and three cats.) Her PUPPY destroyed her apartment to the point where she had to buy all new furniture and get new flooring installed throughout her unit.

In hindsight, I should have taken her puppy to the humane society. She’d had two dogs taken away already at that point.

By: Rattus

Rattus — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:35:19 +0000

BTW, Just Dropping By, if you didn’t catch what hey! did, s/he made a joke. So calm the fuck down.

By: Just Dropping By

Just Dropping By — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:54:05 +0000

Dear “name” – I second the motion. Thank you. What’s up with the anti-only child crap that’s been showing up around here lately?

Dear “hey!” – Obviously, you are a social outcast loser with no life other than to make stupid comments on the Internet.

BTW, hey!, if you didn’t catch what I just did: I just made a stupid generalization – the kind you are so fond of. No need to say thank you, it was my pleasure.

By: hey!

hey! — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:41:11 +0000

I’m an only child and just happen to be quite fond of stupid generalizations, so stop speaking for me!

By: Samantha

Samantha — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 06:32:15 +0000

this is at michigan state!
i go there too. & while i agree that if clothes are sitting in the dyer unattended, they should be taken out, i also think they deserve a few courtesy minutes to get to the laundry room.

twice i’ve come into the laundry room to a person taking my clothes out, when i know for a fact, they were sitting for less than a minute.

i’ve also had people take my clothes out of a dryer, while still wet, and put their clothes in, therefore stealing my cycle. that is not acceptable.

By: ArtsBeatLA

ArtsBeatLA — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:47:17 +0000

I think they were neatly folder for further use *later*…

By: Bear Came over the Mountain

Bear Came over the Mountain — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:27:46 +0000

*Orrsy.

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:35:56 +0000

Except that that’s not at all like what the note writer is talking about.

By: K

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:58:01 +0000

I doubt she’s really OCD, what she probably really has is germaphobia. I know people like that and makes me sad for them. Because (speaking in super broad generalizations here) they normally sanitize the devil out of everything and they’re the ones with the kids who end up at the doctor’s offices year after year with strep throat and ear infections. While my house is clean enough, but yet messy enough to be comfortable and my kids rarely ever get sick. I really think it’s because my kids get exposed to the germs.
As for the a laundry. Do it on a night that wasn’t so busy if it bothers you that much. And if it was that busy REALLY, HOW did you have time to clean it for HOURS? I think she needs a good healthy dose of reality, painful as it might be. But after all isn’t that what college’s real goal is?

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:58:52 +0000

I have diagnosed OCD and for that reason, I avoid public laundry facilities whenever possible. The few times I’ve had to use a laundromat, you’d better believe I’d never leave my shit unattended. Poor form, original note-writer!