Dude, you live in an apartment building. Some part of your common sense must know that other poeple also live in this apartment building and that we all share one washer and drier. So next time you throw your load in at 5, why don’t you have it out by 7, rather than holding up the drier for 5 hours with your still wet shit in it. Keep on top of your laundry! Other people depend on the machines too!
—Needs clean panties
This article appears in Feb 12-18, 2009.
Take his shit out of the washer and leave it in a pile somewhere in the laundry room. When I used to share laundry facilities people would pull this shit all the time. So I started taking their shit out and putting it aside.
If it’s in the dryer and the dryer isn’t running, take his shit out too, wet or dry.
how many things have timers/alarms on them now?
cells, watches, alarm clocks, microwaves,tv’s or *Gasp* actual kitchen timers…..
of course, in some cases this would require enough brain power to be able to program the time into them…
Use the timer’s. Then you can forget about it until you hear the *Ding / *Beep Beep / *Beeeeeeeep
If I forgot, I would almost expect to have it piled in a corner somewhere (or placed in a plastic bag like my last place)
You think a few hours is bad? One of the pigs that lives in my building leaves her shit in there for a week or more somtimes. I’m the kind of guy who doesn’t hesitate to move someone else’s shit out of my way and have to do it 9 times out of 10 when I go to do my laundry. The worst part is, she’ll wash it, then leave it there for days and then the whole laundry room smells like mildew because her wet shit is sitting there fermenting. It’s disgusting and I’ve stopped being polite about moving her shit. I just throw it all on the floor now. It wouldn’t be so bad if it only happened once in a while or if she left a laundry basket there to put stuff in, but she doesn’t, so on the floor it goes!
I suggest you consider giving your neighbor the benefit of doubt, and assume something pressing distracted him from his laundry. Then you could knock on his door and say, pleasantly, that you were about to take his laundry out of the dryer, but noticed it was still damp, and would he like to put another token in before you proceed with your own laundry? Then he might say, “oh, sorry about that, neighbor. I got distracted. I’ll take care of that right away.” Or he might say, “oh, sorry about that neighbor. I ran out of tokens. You go ahead with your laundry and I’ll finish up later.” I can think of a number of other scenarios that might ensue, none of them involving resentment or laundry room turf wars.
I realize that such an outburst of civility might seem like an extreme solution, but desperate times call for desparate measures.
We had people do that to us before when we lived in Hfx….if you can stand to touch other people’s laundry…take it out, throw it on the nearest ledge/shelf/counter and continue on your way to fresh smelling laundry….screw them…they just lost their dryer.
Sorry, most laundry room have that little sign that says : “do not leave laundry unattended” now, I realize that most people do leave it unattended (I’m sure as hell not waiting around for 30 minutes for the washer to finish and then an hour for the dry when I’m just down the hall) but that does not mean: “Leave your clothes in the washer till you’re able to get them”. In response to SA: I understand that there is sometimes more pressing matters, but in all honesty, if you can’t take the 30 seconds to go down the hall and grab your laundry, it goes on the nearest shelf. It’s common decency to be timely with your laundry, especially if you’ve only got one laundry room to begin with and believe me, most people in an apartment building don’t say shit like : “sorry neighbour” it’s more like: “what dude? Fuck off” or “oh I’m sorry, what do you want me to do about it?”
Im pretty good at getting my laundry on time. Maybe once and a while I might forget about it for 15 or 20 minutes… but there have been a couple times when my clothes have been taken out of the dryer still damp its such a piss off… so i guess it is good revenge if your getting pissed at your neighbor.
But as a word or caution when i come down 10 – 15 or 20 minutes late to get my stuff and its wet on the floor or counter…hmmmm i wonder who could have done that… there seems to be a load in the dryer i was using with alot of time left on it… at the very least imma stop that dryers cycle… or depending on the height try to angle a nice stream of victory into that dryer… ahh that brings me back to my university days
Steam of Victory? YYEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!! I’ll have you know for the next two weeks when I use the lou i’ll be laughing uncontrollably, and it’s all thanks to you! Glorious line!……Stream of victory….brililant!
zzzz our building did have timers on them (not that some people paid attention), but the owners decided to switch machines that have no timers and 15 minutes less time in the dryer. I’ll give someone 10 minutes to move their stuff. After that I take it out and start on mine. You snooze you lose.