Strangers that touch your laundy

smarchee · January 2010

in an apartment laundry room

isn't this one of the most annoying things, wait your damn turn for a laundry machine, especially when there is no dryer available

the rage, the rage

2nd time too, these fucks took my laundry out and put it on some dirty (probably) table, now I think I might have to wash it again

I seriously thought I might get an assault charge if I let loose on them but I held back after much swearing and yelling

fuck

thesewordselope · January 2010

Haha, I always tell my friend that I am going to be banned from my laundry room one of these days because I get so mad at stuff like that....

One time I was late getting my laundry out, by 5-10 minutes, I realized this and went to run up to the laundry room...I opened my door and almost tripped over my basket, all my clothes were folded, in my basket and in front of my apartment door...still don't know who did it, it was a nice gesture...but leaving my clothes in the hallway, in front of my door, not to mention the fact that they touched all my clothes...who does that? The last thing I want to do is to be touching other peoples clothes, clean or not. lol.

81 · January 2010

i've seen people leave their shit in the washer for over an hour. sorry charlie, i'm taking it out, and starting mine.

having your own washer/dryer is so nice. now the only problem i have is when the dryer breaks down and when the gf doesn't clean the lint trap.

dimitrispearljam · January 2010

noone touch my laundry..its a war...

CJMST3K · January 2010

btw - not that I've needed to use laundry rooms, but I've heard the dryers filters are rarely emptied, resulting in spending more money to dry than is necessary. So if you don't check the filter before you dry, this might help.

...one of those random tips I heard on tv years ago.

Heatherj43 · January 2010

I am glad I don't have to deal with that. My best friend does and its awful. I wouldn't ever want others dealing with my laundry. I know in her building, its the biggest thing that causes fights. If you are late getting to your machine and getting your laundry out, others don't know how long its been in there waiting for you, so, yeah...they move it, or might have to wait all day.
She hates when her laundry is left on top of some other machine or on a table. You'd think after all these years, there could be some way to let others know whose laundry it is and how to contact them, like an intercom thing or something.
There has to a solution.
When I didn't have my own laundry equipment, I use to have to use a laundromat. I would just stay there until I was done. I did see that sometimes people would put their stuff in and leave and come back and switch it to dryer and leave, etc., but usually there's enough equipment. On busy days, however, they would often be late getting back and people would put their stuff on a table. Oh, and I never have seen a lint trap cleaned in one of those places, good tip!
It was nice of the person who folded your laundry, but they obviously knew whose it was, why didn't they knock on your door?

skippybrew · January 2010

Jeez, I didn't know laundry rooms were so stressful. Nice and warm, smell of clean, gentle chugga-chugga of the machines... I just get a nice buzz on and I could take a nap. Pickin fights is the last thing on my mind when I do laundry.

Heatherj43 · January 2010

"I don't want your boys touching my boys." Seinfeld.

thesewordselope · January 2010

Heatherj43 wrote:

I am glad I don't have to deal with that. My best friend does and its awful. I wouldn't ever want others dealing with my laundry. I know in her building, its the biggest thing that causes fights. If you are late getting to your machine and getting your laundry out, others don't know how long its been in there waiting for you, so, yeah...they move it, or might have to wait all day.
She hates when her laundry is left on top of some other machine or on a table. You'd think after all these years, there could be some way to let others know whose laundry it is and how to contact them, like an intercom thing or something.
There has to a solution.
When I didn't have my own laundry equipment, I use to have to use a laundromat. I would just stay there until I was done. I did see that sometimes people would put their stuff in and leave and come back and switch it to dryer and leave, etc., but usually there's enough equipment. On busy days, however, they would often be late getting back and people would put their stuff on a table. Oh, and I never have seen a lint trap cleaned in one of those places, good tip!
It was nice of the person who folded your laundry, but they obviously knew whose it was, why didn't they knock on your door?

It was a nice gesture, like I said. I live in a fairly small building, so you sort of know where everyone lives, even though you don't necessarily talk to them. I have no idea who it was though, they didn't knock on my door, or say anything to me about it after the fact...I assume that since my work scrubs were in there they recognized them since that's all I seem to be wearing these days :roll: . Trust me, I would have loved a knock on the door, to avoid the face plant I almost had in my doorway rushing out the door to go get it, lol

smarchee · January 2010

well the thing was there was no dryer available because these fucks do 15 loads at the same time, so I go down when my washing is done, no dryer, I go back up to apt for 5-8 minutes come down and my washing is out

so i guess either I shouldn't leave and wait for other lazy ppl to clean their dryer, become what I hate and take people's clothes out of the laundry, or go to a laundry-mat outside of this building

I don't want to come down and catch them in the act, because then it would become phsyical

Phantom Pain · January 2010

"Last night at the dance, my little brother paid a buck to see your underwear"

CJMST3K · January 2010

Phantom Pain wrote:

"Last night at the dance, my little brother paid a buck to see your underwear"

Keiran · January 2010

We never had our own washer/dryer when I was growing up. And, we always lived in apartments. This was "back in the day" when the majority of apartments were not fitted with washer dryer hookups so you had no choice but to use the facilities provided by the apt. or you could go to the local laundromat.

My poor mother spent endless hours running back and forth to the "wash house" so that our laundry didn't get piled on the filthy table or even worse, stolen. I never really appreciated the effort and time she spent taking care of us in that way. When we finally moved into a place that had hook ups, I remember she almost cried. What a luxury to be able to do laundry on her own time as opposed to when machines were available.

Thank you for this thread. I miss my mom terribly and I took for-granted so many things she did for me. Rekindling this small and silly memory reminded me of how much she truly loved me.

Leathe?ma? · January 2010

Is it impossible to get your own washing machine??

intodeep · January 2010

I went to an apartment complex and they said we have a laundry service. you drop off your basket with your clothes and detergent and our laundry proffesional washes your clothes for you and you pick them up on your way home from work.

At first i was like this rocks. I hate doing laundry. Then i was like hmm i don't knwo about someone else doing my laundry

Phantom Pain · January 2010

CJMST3K wrote:

Phantom Pain wrote:

"Last night at the dance, my little brother paid a buck to see your underwear"

LoL

smarchee · January 2010

Keiran wrote:

We never had our own washer/dryer when I was growing up. And, we always lived in apartments. This was "back in the day" when the majority of apartments were not fitted with washer dryer hookups so you had no choice but to use the facilities provided by the apt. or you could go to the local laundromat.

My poor mother spent endless hours running back and forth to the "wash house" so that our laundry didn't get piled on the filthy table or even worse, stolen. I never really appreciated the effort and time she spent taking care of us in that way. When we finally moved into a place that had hook ups, I remember she almost cried. What a luxury to be able to do laundry on her own time as opposed to when machines were available.

Thank you for this thread. I miss my mom terribly and I took for-granted so many things she did for me. Rekindling this small and silly memory reminded me of how much she truly loved me.

haha glad I could remind you

thesewordselope · January 2010

smarchee wrote:

well the thing was there was no dryer available because these fucks do 15 loads at the same time, so I go down when my washing is done, no dryer, I go back up to apt for 5-8 minutes come down and my washing is out

so i guess either I shouldn't leave and wait for other lazy ppl to clean their dryer, become what I hate and take people's clothes out of the laundry, or go to a laundry-mat outside of this building

I don't want to come down and catch them in the act, because then it would become phsyical

So, your laundry was done washing...but you left it in the machine? We'd be in a laundry room brawl for sure

In that case I take mine out and sit and wait, or check how much time is left on the dryers and if its to long I take my wet stuff back with me and bring it back closer to the time... they joys of apartment laundry rooms

smarchee · January 2010

CanadasPearl wrote:

smarchee wrote:

well the thing was there was no dryer available because these fucks do 15 loads at the same time, so I go down when my washing is done, no dryer, I go back up to apt for 5-8 minutes come down and my washing is out

so i guess either I shouldn't leave and wait for other lazy ppl to clean their dryer, become what I hate and take people's clothes out of the laundry, or go to a laundry-mat outside of this building

I don't want to come down and catch them in the act, because then it would become phsyical

So, your laundry was done washing...but you left it in the machine? We'd be in a laundry room brawl for sure

In that case I take mine out and sit and wait, or check how much time is left on the dryers and if its to long I take my wet stuff back with me and bring it back closer to the time... they joys of apartment laundry rooms

yes it was done and I left it, because there was no dryers available, these ppl had taken them all up and one or 2 was done, I cant remember if there was empty washers when I went down but I know when I went the 2nd time there was at least 2 washers empty and my clothes were on the table, and since there is 4 in a row back-to-back they just wanted to use the whole row so hence taking my clothes out while there were 2 other washers available, so yeah, that pissed me off

and I had an incident with the same people last spring that involved swearing and yelling, they keep threatening to call someone when I am bitching at them, they are 40-50 year old Eastern European people, they can fuck off

smarchee · January 2010

props to a Hamiltonian on the board

I have the day-off (hence the laundry) was thinking of checking out AbsoluteMusic on Upper James, u ever been there?

thesewordselope · January 2010

smarchee wrote:

props to a Hamiltonian on the board

I have the day-off (hence the laundry) was thinking of checking out AbsoluteMusic on Upper James, u ever been there?

Yeah, good old Hamilton, I work in Burlington....

Day off for me to, but I'm relaxing and avoiding the laundry room at all costs.... I know where AbsoluteMusic is, don't live to far from it actually, I have never been there though.

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