And here you thought your neighbors were assholes for dumping your dry laundry on a table.
Kita in Alberta particularly enjoyed the fact that this note — written on the back of a piece of wrapping paper — was stuck to the wall with a smiley-face Band-Aid.
related: Dear nice person who stole my laundry…
extra credit: “How nice are we?” [cbcnews.ca]
86 responses so far ↓
#1
shwo!
If it were me, that snow would be yellow.
Dec 21, 2011 at 6:15 pm rating: 90
#2
channy
Love it! lol
Dec 21, 2011 at 6:19 pm rating: 90
#3
J
Someone did that to me in my old apartment building, but I’m a little less confrontational, so I just grabbed a few socks from their laundry load (but only one from each pair) and threw them in the trash.
Dec 21, 2011 at 6:23 pm rating: 90
#4
Siobhan
simply beautiful :’)
Dec 21, 2011 at 6:27 pm rating: 90
#5
quigrey
need more justice… does note writer have a dog?
Dec 21, 2011 at 6:29 pm rating: 90
#6
anon
wow.. if they did that to me their stuff wouldn’t be in the snow. i’d give em a nice cup of coffee.. as fabric softener!
Dec 21, 2011 at 6:43 pm rating: 90
#7
Grrrr
Stuff yellow snow… A bit of brown snow is called for here…. Mwahahahahahahahaha
Dec 21, 2011 at 6:47 pm rating: 90
#8
Nahhh
Revenge is a dish best served not just cold, but frozen.
Dec 21, 2011 at 6:47 pm rating: 90
#9
Dances with Lasagna
I bow at the writer’s feet, in homage to such pwnage!
Dec 21, 2011 at 6:48 pm rating: 90
#10
Melissa
I hope they had their clothes safe and dry before posting this note. No re-retaliation?
Dec 21, 2011 at 6:52 pm rating: 90
#11
Kris
I applaud the note writer, who not only said a big screw you to the inconsiderate a-hole, but even gave them their apt number, that takes balls!
Dec 21, 2011 at 7:19 pm rating: 90
#12
snee
next time on ‘laundry wars’…
ARE YOU READY TO TTTTUUUUMMMMBBBBLLLLE?!
Dec 21, 2011 at 7:22 pm rating: 90
#13
Alexis
HELL YES!
Dec 21, 2011 at 7:27 pm rating: 90
#14
C
i like the sock thing but warning .. i d do my laundry at the laundromat from now on lol !!!
Dec 21, 2011 at 7:33 pm rating: 90
#15
Quite Contrary
I heart Apartment 301.
Dec 21, 2011 at 7:38 pm rating: 90
#16
peanutbtr
Now that’s bad-ass
Dec 21, 2011 at 7:55 pm rating: 90
#17
Unless
How do we know the cycle had not ended? Wan’t everybody all about move your shit out of the way just a couple days ago?
Dec 21, 2011 at 8:34 pm rating: 90
#18
The Elf
With all these laundry notes, I’m officially on Team Bring-A-Book-And-Watch-Your-Shit.
Dec 21, 2011 at 8:42 pm rating: 90
#19
hurry up zombie
That’s female handwriting, just saying.
Dec 21, 2011 at 8:48 pm rating: 90
#20
KJ
It’s been a while since I did my laundry in a laundrymat, but I’ll never forget the night a matrony black woman came in to find someone had pulled her clothes out of a washer and dumped them on the floor next to the driers. She put her things in a dryer, went over to the washer she had been using, opened the lid, took a little jar of India ink out of her purse and poured a tablespoon or two into the water. Looked at me and said “I hate rude people”. I didn’t hang out to see what happened next.
Dec 21, 2011 at 8:50 pm rating: 90
#21
Edmund
Not so funny. I remember when I was piss-poor in college and I violated some unknown laundry rule and my clothes vanished. I had NOTHING to wear and no money. I had to go to a used jean place to get 1 outfit. Brings back painful memories.
Dec 21, 2011 at 9:10 pm rating: 90
#22
Mrs.Beasley
“And P.S., I taped this note up with a happy face band-aid because you’re gonna need it for your fat lip should you ever lay a finger on my stuff again.”
Dec 21, 2011 at 11:10 pm rating: 90
#23
tch tch
All this talk about washing has given me the motivation to get off my butt and start cleaning! 25 guests for Christmas and only 3 days to go!!
Dec 21, 2011 at 11:15 pm rating: 90
#24
Mosh
A similar thing happened to a roomie of mine at university. We went to check on his washing to find it soaking wet, sat on top of the washer/dryer. Some “princess” has stopped the wash and taken it out so she could do her laundry.
Which consisted of one (extremely large) pair of grey knickers.
So we returned the favour, stopped the machine, put his wash back in. And pinned her underwear to the kitchen noticeboard.
Dec 22, 2011 at 3:05 am rating: 90
#25
Nunavut Guy
Canadians are not overly polite.The relative geography only makes it seem that way.
Dec 22, 2011 at 4:10 am rating: 90
#26
Nadia
I’ve come back to the laundromat multiple times to find that my washer load became unbalanced and the machine turned off in mid-cycle, leaving everything soaking wet (and continuing to count down in time). In that situation, I couldn’t have faulted someone who removed my wet clothes (according to the machine, it was done) if I had taken too long to get back and find this all out.
I hope the note writer had some sort of reason to believe this wasn’t the case . . . like a witness who informed her, or the offending load being too far completed to have started after her load would have ended.
Dec 22, 2011 at 6:45 am rating: 90
#27
emcd
Is that the Canadian spelling of unfortunately?
Dec 22, 2011 at 8:00 am rating: 90
#28
Sara
LEGIT
Dec 22, 2011 at 10:00 am rating: 90
#29
Jorpho
Almost no one has mentioned the possibility that perhaps the washing machine in question was malfunctioning and might have stopped in the middle of the cycle all by itself, leaving the impression that the cycle was finished. Those machines don’t always function perfectly.
[Now, we have the high-efficiency machines in my building that actually *lock* once the cycle starts, so I think myself unlikely to have to deal with something quite like this anytime soon.]
And Apt. 301 is a firestarter just looking for a fight.
Dec 22, 2011 at 10:02 am rating: 90
#30
warns
I’m team neither on this one. Both of these folks need a class in politeness and manners. Unless the second idiot threw the first idiot’s clothes in the snow in the first place. I mean I’m still team neither, but it doesn’t seem so bad.
Dec 22, 2011 at 11:28 am rating: 90
#31
bob
Who wants to bet the note writer is the 120lb 5’5″ guy in #201, but knows there is a 280lb 6’6″ guy in #301
Dec 22, 2011 at 11:52 am rating: 90
#32
Mike Rophone
I initially thought the extra credit was ““How nice are we?” [chewbacca]“.
Dec 22, 2011 at 1:27 pm rating: 90
#33
D
I think if I were willing to do all of that and put my apartment number on the note, I would save myself a scrap of wrapping paper and a smiley face bandaid and hang out in the laundry room for a while. That way you still get the pleasure of telling them to f-off and go get their clothes out of the snow, but with out the written confession left behind.
Dec 22, 2011 at 4:57 pm rating: 90
#34
Dr. Chalkwitheringlicktacklefeff
I especially love that the note-leaver left their room number and is clearly quite willing to throw-down over the matter. Kudos to them
Dec 23, 2011 at 11:36 am rating: 90
#35
Yolanda
I was taught as a child that some of my clothes, like new jeans, for instance, were valuable enough to be stolen, so I have always remained with my clothing for most of the job, only running off to run errands. I did once pay the laundromat attendant to do the whole thing for me, but in unattended laundromats one is very stupid to leave one’s things unguarded. That being said, this person’s revenge is perfect. Not destructive, but very satisfying and pointed. Definitely not passive, LOL.
Dec 23, 2011 at 1:53 pm rating: 90
#36
Nunavut Guy
Canadians can write these kind of notes because we all don’t own hand guns.
Dec 24, 2011 at 9:40 am rating: 90
#37
Roberta
Great.
I like the way he thinks.
Dec 27, 2011 at 4:46 am rating: 90
#38
Jim
Happened to me once. Buttwipes took our laundry out of the washer, tossed it into the sink and did their wash. By the time I got back, they’d finished the wash and their stuff was in the dryer (I guess they hoped we wouldn’t notice.)
I opened the dryer, pissed on their clothes, closed it and restarted the dry. Whiter than white? Not that day.
Dec 29, 2011 at 7:07 am rating: 90
#39
Josh
This is a great note!
It isn’t passive-aggressive though, it is pretty much straight forward.
AWESOME none-the-less!!
Dec 29, 2011 at 10:32 am rating: 90
#40
Cygnet
Just love the revenge, unless the clothes are very expensive all the clothes should dry without damage. No damage revenge is the best kind of revenge.
Dec 29, 2011 at 11:18 am rating: 90
#41
Poltergeist
The smiley bandage, the revenge, the balls…I think I’m in love. Person who wrote this note – call me? Guy or girl, I don’t care. You can write naughty PA things to me all day and throw my clothes in the snow.
Dec 29, 2011 at 11:02 pm rating: 90
#42
Superman
I’m a Texan, so I’m too lazy to go to all the trouble of stopping the machine, pulling out a whole load of soaking wet clothes (which probably weigh like 40 pounds), and then haul them out into the cold snow.
On the other hand, I’m not too cheap to dump $2 worth of an entire gallon of bleach into the damn machine. And if it’s white clothes, motor oil works.
Jan 2, 2012 at 2:31 am rating: 90
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