My Laundry Room Suck

[AccountingDrone]

When I was in need of laundry but unable to pay to replace the washer dryer in the house, I bought a cheap little portable washer/dryer unit out of a catalog.

You hook it up to a faucet, it drains out a hose you lead into a sink. It had a cylinder on its side, with a hatch you open to put the clothing in. It theoretically would do jeans, you could fit 2 pair in, but it wouldn't be able to spin out all the water, but you could wring them out manually and hang them to dry. It would manage to wash, spin and blow dry a tshirt, a bra pair of panties and a pair of socks. The dryer function was essentially the equivalent to a hair dryer, not zippy enough to dry a pair of jeans. Since I wasn't working, I wore scrubs, which it could handle ok. It could do 1 sheet at a time, but they needed to be hung to dry.

I was thrilled when both the car got repaired so we could go to a laundremat, and mrAru got home from sea to deal with stuff around the farm I couldn't [I was just coming off 6 months of chronic pneumonia I just could not shake. If I could have freaking managed to get to the damned base hospital more frequently I probably would have gotten better much faster.

[Legal Eagle]

when i was in a complex with shared laundry facilities, i used to do it late at night,
no queues, throw in the laundry, go and watch tv, move to dryer, watch more tv, done. simples.

[LadyAndreca]

We have 4 washers and 3 dryers per laundry room. Usually people only take 2 at a time, but not always. If I have to take someone's clothes out of the dryer, I at least fold them on the table so they don't get wrinkled. Nobody else does. And I always leave my laundry basket on top of the machine I'm using in the hopes that if someone gets there before me, they at least dump my clothes in my basket. At least once I've had my clothes mixed up with other people's and had to pick through to figure out which was my (still damp) laundry.

I don't sit with them because that's a good way to get eaten by mosquitoes/frozen solid. It's an unheated basement room and the door, which is open to the outdoors, is never closed except in REALLY bad weather or flooding.

[Pixilated]

If they know the exact time the dryers finished, why the frak weren't they there to empty them?

Sometimes people honestly do forget. But after reading freeatlast's story ... a WEEK?! How could you not notice an entire machineful of clothing, linens, etc. was nowhere to be found for a week?!?

some of the student housing in the mad city(the really expensive ones) have washers and dryers that will email you with 5 minutes left and "hey you're laundry's done!"

That's great! Unfortunately it probably wouldn't help much with the people who decide to go for a nap, or go out for dinner, or whatever, and figure they'll just pick their stuff up when they get back ...

[BlaqueKatt]

some of the student housing in the mad city(the really expensive ones) have washers and dryers that will email you with 5 minutes left and "hey you're laundry's done!"

[bainsidhe]

Used to have a neighbor that would occasionally leave laundry in the washer overnight. At least no one left nasty notes when you removed their laundry so you could do your own.

[freeatlast]

I lived in a apartment building where there was 1 washer and 1 dryer for 5 apartments. Once weekend when I went to do my laundry, there was a load laying in the dryer. I put it on top of the dryer and worked around it. The owner did not show up to get her laundry, so once I was done with the 4 loads I had, I put them back into the dryer. The next weekend, when I went down to do my laundry I found THE EXACT SAME LOAD OF LAUNDRY from the previous weekend still laying in the dryer. Our laundry room opened into the garage, so I just dropped the entire load on the garage floor. A few minutes later I saw our landlord working outside the open garage. When I came back down to start my next load, the stuff on the garage floor was gone. I suspect that the tenant that left her stuff learned her lesson, as I never found that she had left anything else laying in the dryer like that.

[Pagan]

When you're in a complex where 50 people have to share a single set of machines, you get your shit out when it's done, or the person behind you does so for you.

^-.-^

Or like ours where there's 5 machines and 4 dryers (how does that make sense?) for half of the complex, which is way more than 50 people. This is why I use my kitchen timer.

And for the love of Guinness, would it kill y'all to take 2 lousy, freakin' seconds to clean the damn lint trap out when you get your clothes out?

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

This is the thing I hated most about living in the on-campus apartments at college. Two washers and two dryers for each building, and good luck finding one that isn't currently in use.

Luckily there was a laundromat not too far away and I had my car on campus.

[Dytchdoctir]

You could have taken a picture of the note (and an attached reply) and posted it here:

http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/

[RealUnimportant]

If they know the exact time the dryers finished, why the frak weren't they there to empty them?

[Geek King]

See, this is the reason I just stayed with my laundry when I was using the shared machines. Took a book, or my PSP/Gamebay, and waited it out. It was better when I worked third shift--I just did laundry at 3-4 AM! I'm sorry to report I still had to empty dryers at that hour sometimes.

[PepperElf]

"To whoever took my clothes out of the dryer, don't touch our clothes. The dryer's were done at 10 after and you took my clothes at 15 after. Thank you for being so inconsiderate and impatient".

Part of me says to write below it "no one cares. stfu" or "world doesn't revolve around you sunshine. the rest of us have better things to do then wait for you to move your lazy ass"... but you probably don't want to cause waves.

but seriously what are they going to do? call the laundry police on you? not everyone has all day to wait for them to get off their asses to get their laundry.

hell where i use to live people would leave their shit out for hours.

had one lady actually knock on my door and complain at me because i took her dryer and her laundry was still wet. she tried to accuse me of pulling it out while it was still running.

she didn't believe that it was off when I did it. but i never changed my story. it was off, and iirc it had been off for a while too. NMP

[iradney]

This is why I do our laundry early Sunday AMs. The laundry room at our complex is dead at that time. I also have the times for the washing and drying machines down pat, and I arrive 5 minutes before they finish.

I used to do it on Saturday afternoons - OY vey. I would literally wait about 10 minutes for someone to take their washing out of the machine. I'm sorry, but after 10 minutes, screw you. And I too have had instances where I've done the washing AND the drying (90 minutes in all), and that person would still not have picked up their stuff.

[Andara Bledin]

When you're in a complex where 50 people have to share a single set of machines, you get your shit out when it's done, or the person behind you does so for you.

^-.-^