My Laundry Room Suck

[telecom_goddess]

Geeze I'm glad I have my own washer and dryer now. I have dealt with plenty of laundry rooms though. One place I lived at...one of the neighbors insisted on leaving the washer open so her clothes could soak for hours on end. I was forever closing the lid so they would freakin' get done already.

At another place the lint was thrown all over the floor instead of in the garbage cans RIGHT FUCKING THERE. People are lazy.

[Andara Bledin]

Right before I moved, they renovated the laundry room for our building. They removed the trash can at some point and never put it back.

^-.-^

[Indigo]

My campus laundry room isn't too bad when I go to use it. But the few times I do go there I have to sit and watch my laundry because I have had people come in and try to steal the washer/dryer right after I've put my stuff in.

Most of the time I go home and use my parent's washer and dryer - they're bigger and I have enough stuff to last the two-three weeks in between visits.

[dalesys]

I was forever closing the lid...

My inner 4-year-old says: "The lid's up! Whiz in it!"

[Pagan]

At another place the lint was thrown all over the floor instead of in the garbage cans RIGHT FUCKING THERE. People are lazy.

I don't know what it is in mine, but for some reason, people can't be assed enough to take the 2 freaking seconds it takes to swipe out the lint trap and walk 2 steps to the damned trash can to throw it!

[Primer]

Honestly, I can see why it would be jarring to realize someone had touched your clothes (could be a pervert, you never know), but if you're THAT worried about it, stick around and watch your clothes. How is that a hard concept to understand for those people?

Back when I lived in an apartment, any/all unattended clothes had a tendency of disappearing. I actually SAW a women going through the machines one day. When she saw me, she changed her mind about actually taking anything, but it was obvious that the clothes she was poking through were not hers--especially since she poked through MINE just once, though.

I had no clue who she was or where she lived, and I could not give a great description to the management, so I don't think anything was ever done about her. *I* ended up buying a portable washer and dryer, and doing my laundry in my kitchen.

[Flying Grype]

If I'm using a laundromat, I'm bringing a book and sitting there right by the machine until it's done. Not taking chances. I doubt if any of my clothes are theft-worthy, but I wouldn't put it past someone to take my stuff out of a just-started dryer, put it in a basket, and replace it in the dryer with their own (thereby avoiding paying for a dryer run).

My real problem with laundromats is that whenever I see a person come in with a bottle of detergent AND a bottle of bleach, even if they have several loads of laundry to do and will likely not use both together, I get paranoid.

[Ironclad Alibi]

If I'm using a laundromat, I'm bringing a book and sitting there right by the machine until it's done. Not taking chances.

I always did the same.

My wife (pre-me) had her clothes destroyed in her apartment laundry room when some kids came through and turned up the heat on all the gas dryers. This was the main reason she bought her own house with its own washer and dryer.

[Kogarashi]

One in particular went off on my other neighbor for touching his "pantaloons".

Did he honestly call them pantaloons? ::giggle::

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?

I...actually don't clean the lint trap after I run a load. But that's because it's been my habit since way back when my mom taught me how to do my own laundry that I empty the lint trap right before I dry my clothes, to make sure it's empty right from the start. I don't really think about emptying it afterward. Plus on the machines in our basement laundry room here, the lint traps say to check them before drying clothes, not after.

Now when I empty it and can see obvious strata of lint from several previous loads, I have to wonder.

My campus laundry room isn't too bad when I go to use it. But the few times I do go there I have to sit and watch my laundry because I have had people come in and try to steal the washer/dryer right after I've put my stuff in.

I think that's why the new machines they put in our basement have doors that lock once you start the cycle, and don't unlock until the cycle's complete. I haven't heard issues with people stealing laundry time from each other here, but I guess it doesn't hurt to preempt it. It's mostly annoying when a load gets unbalanced, which makes the washing time take an extra twenty minutes beyond what the timer says, and becaues of the locked door you can't try to rebalance the load.

We've had issues with people hogging the machines here too, leaving their laundry down there for hours upon hours. It makes no sense to me, because our machines have timers on them as well so you know exactly when they're going to end. How hard is it to set your kitchen timer or phone alarm to let you know when to go down there? Luckily the housing office put a notice in the laundry room warning tenants that if you don't claim your clothes promptly, your neighbors might move them out of the way, so that seems to keep people from leaving the angry notes.