My neighbours are constantly doing laundry. Why? Because, as far as I can gather, they constantly forget that they’re doing laundry. So the machines are always going, same loads over and over, like a demented groundhog day. And the laundry room is starting to smell like moldy clothes and BO. More annoying still, every time I go in and they’re there, they give me this confused, glazed, mildly territorial look that clearly says “You’d better not be planning to use one of these… we hate any delays in waiting to continue the neverending fuckup that is our life.” I used to be pretty tolerant of these guys. I mean everyone forgets their laundry sometimes. But these people spend EVERY GODDAMN night in the laundry room trying to figure out how to keep themselves clean. There are only two of each machine and they’ve monopolized the entire array. Eventually I’m going to have to have a word with the landlord because unlike these two zombies, I have a job and can’t be up until three am trying to live around their nucleus of chaos. I’m aware that I’m using the third person address of the gossiper and not the second person address of the accuser. I’d write in second person if I didn’t somewhat suspect these two fucktards were completely illiterate anyway. —Sit the Fuck Down There Until the Machine Stops
This article appears in Nov 3-9, 2011.
..they haven’t figured out the correlation between less stink ass body..less stink ass clothes …a common dilemma for the tards methinks 🙂
Maybe just maybe you should go talk to them and see if you can come to some kind of agreement. They can’t read your mind ya know
It’s common and courtesy. If you’re in an apartment building with limited machines, as appears to be the case here, you can’t monopolize all the machines, all the time. Reading minds has nothing to do with it. I’d go to the landlord, like the OB said and/or if their shit was still sitting there after the machine has finished, I’d pull it all out, pile it on top and use the machine myself. I’ve done it before when I lived in an apartment. I’ll be damned if I am going to sit there and wait, machine sitting idle with their clothes in it, all because they are too damned lazy or stupid to take responsibility for their own shit.
That should have read “common courtesy”.
MAybe they have lots of kids?
… yeah this would get annoying, though I think OP may be embelishing?
We used to use the machines in our building until our neighbors washed their stuff and afterward the whole laundry room smelled like cat piss and death. After that I didn’t want to use the same machines as them so we kick it a couple times a week to the laundromat, much less stressful than wondering if washers are taken by (let’s try and guess what that smell is)…shudder
plus, a lot of laundromats are handy coffee shops! Bonus! 😀
That has happened a few times in our building. The clothes end up sitting on top of the machine so others can get there’s done.
I remember there was a pile of laundry sitting in the laundry room for a whole weekend before it was gone.
Since having my kid laundry is a common thing but I always do mine at least 3 times a week and in the mornings when everyone else is working.
I know if I was working I would be pretty annoyed if the washer and dryer was held up and I had to work in the early morning. So I like to get mine done before most are off work.
Yup, if laundry is unattended it gets pulled out of the machine and piled on top. If they have a problem that, next time, it goes down the garbage chute.
I agree with Beener. You need to talk to them first. Give them the opportunity to cooperate before you go to the landlord otherwise you are taking the confrontational route which may not be neccessary.
Fuck, I’m glad I used to drop my laundry off at that place on Windsor St. for the 14 years I didn’t have a washer/dryer – washed, dried and folded for a reasonable price – it saved me time in the long run. No muss, no fuss, no smell of composting skunk assholes.
I’m pretty lucky in my building, brand new machines and good amount of them, I’ve never seen it completely full. Definitely would piss me off.
I’m with you TTFn.
That’s what I do now when working.
When I’m off, I take a load to the laundramat every second week or so. ITs nice to own dozens & dozens of T shirts , golf shirts etc. I got around 60 pairs of socks & 4 full dresser drawers of jeans & pants & 2 more of shorts & at least 30 sets of underwear.
I can go an entire month & not run out of shirts, underwear, or socks Cause I’ve done it more than once) & the only problem is if its really cold & I can’t wear shorts , I run out of pants ~:)
Drop off laundry places are GREAT !
Thomas, I am more lucky than you. I just throw it on the floor, and my wife washes it, folds it, and puts it away for me.
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I just throw it on the floor, and my wife washes it, folds it, and puts it away for me.
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And that way she still has time to make your sandwich.
Amirite?
what really pisses me off about laundry rooms, is that they leave their fucking shit in the washer overnight. i went in there one saturday morning, and smelled like a dead fucking rat, that had been left to rot there.
i put a sign on door, that said if you leave shit in washer or dryer overnight, i would throw it the fuck out.
the owner was livid that people were leaving the stuff in there too, told everyone in building, if it happens again, he will raise the offenders rent, to cover cleaning out the machines.and yes, he can do so, according to the tenencies act.
“I’m aware that I’m using the third person address of the gossiper and not the second person address of the accuser.”
I’ll use my first person address to be the first person to second that OP.
“I’d write in second person if I didn’t somewhat suspect these two fucktards were completely illiterate anyway.”
If the two fucktards are illiterate, you can write in any person address you want. You should take a second however to address the .. ah.. what were we talking about?
That sucks OB. Sabotage their laundry. Pour a bottle of http://www.liquidass.com/ into their detergent container. 🙂 Guaranteed to keep them smelling like a drunk chick passed out on Argyle with the beer shits.
I used to go to that place on Windsor too I think TTFN, the one named after a boat. That place rocked and I love the owner guy! I’ve heard nothing but terrible things about laundromats and nothing about that one was terrible at all! The dude was always there to give you change and make bad jokes and would hum all the time while actually cleaning the machines everyday so they don’t smell like ass!
Sounds like Halifax is ripe for a cocktail lounge/laundromat place…
speaking of jobs…
the metro crossword spot might become available.
It’s as fucked as a crossword gets in today’s ‘paper’, and I use that term loosely.
Get your landlord to limit the amount of time tenants can do laundry at a time. Your neighbors need to learn to share!
PS. I was my older sister’s weekend slave when it came to her 2 tons of laundry. Had to drag it across Windsor/Chebucto to the cool laundry place. Luckily they had a cafe upstairs!(s it still there?)