Apartment building laundry ettiquite! Resolution necessary!

[Felix_Nietsche]

You were inconsiderate.
When sharing only one W/D among 7 apartments it is a huge pain to get your laundry done. When someone:
1. leaves their laundry and
2. the machine has finished its cycle.

Then the machine is fair game. I've seen jerks leave their laundry in dryers for three hours. The world does not revolve around you. If I were her I would have put your clothes in the dryer and then commandeered the washer but she was under no obligation.

I suspect you left your clothes unattended longer than you let on. She probably waited 15 minutes (or more!) for you to return, got tired of waiting, and started doing her laundry.

If she were really nice, she could have put your wet clothes in the dryer but she was probably MAJORLY IRRITATED with you for wasting her time...

[CallMeIshmael]

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Hey all -

So, here's the situation. I'd like a ruling -- you guys are better than Ann Landers any day.

I live in an apartment building in which there are seven separate apartments (it's actually an old house), and there is one washer and one dryer in the basement.

I put my clothes in the washer, which is set to finish at 5:30. I come down at 5:32 and my clothes are neatly stacked in a pile on a dirty couch next to the washing machine, and a very quiet Asian girl unapologetically looks at me and asks that I move the rest of my clothes. (couldn't she at least have put them in the dryer??) I oblige, putting my clothes in the dryer and starting the cycle.

Now wash cycles take 30 minutes, and dry cycles take 1 hour. When I come down an hour later (pretty much to the minute), my wet clothes are on the couch, and her dry cycle says '45 minutes remaining.'

Obviously, if she stopped my dryer in the middle of a cycle, took my clothes out, and put her clothes in, she's a bitch. That doesn't need debate.

My question, therefore, is this -- if my dry cycle had finished, but was for some reason ineffective in this old dryer and left my clothes still damp...

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Dave, this experience reeks of Cornell. Are you in Ithaca for the summer?

[Dead]

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This is a strange topic to come up so often.
Well, what do you know? This is OOT. Anyway, for a serious answer, this chick is despicable. There's not one thing I hated more when I was living in an apartment/dorm than some bitch messing with my laundry. If it's been a while and I've been delinquent, then that's one thing. If that's the case, then throw my [censored] in the dryer or if it's done in the dryer, then put it on top if it's dry (a lot of women will fold the clothes in this case, but that's certainly not expected). Any actions within 5 minutes of the cycle finishing other than transferring clothes from the washer to the dryer are criminal.

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You are way off base. I had to deal with this [censored] during my first two years of college, living in the dorms. If your laundry is done, and you've left it and don't come back within 5 minutes of it finishing, then you forfeit your right to use the washer/dryer until she has finishes hers. I'm going to take your clothes out and put them on top. I don't care if they're done or not. IF you had been there when the cycle finished(or very soon after), THEN you would have the right to run it through again. But otherwise no.

As someone else said, the world does not revolve around you. You epitomize the me-me-me SUV culture that we find ourselves in today.

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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This is a strange topic to come up so often.
Well, what do you know? This is OOT. Anyway, for a serious answer, this chick is despicable. There's not one thing I hated more when I was living in an apartment/dorm than some bitch messing with my laundry. If it's been a while and I've been delinquent, then that's one thing. If that's the case, then throw my [censored] in the dryer or if it's done in the dryer, then put it on top if it's dry (a lot of women will fold the clothes in this case, but that's certainly not expected). Any actions within 5 minutes of the cycle finishing other than transferring clothes from the washer to the dryer are criminal.

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You are way off base. I had to deal with this [censored] during my first two years of college, living in the dorms. If your laundry is done, and you've left it and don't come back within 5 minutes of it finishing, then you forfeit your right to use the washer/dryer until she has finishes hers. I'm going to take your clothes out and put them on top. I don't care if they're done or not. IF you had been there when the cycle finished(or very soon after), THEN you would have the right to run it through again. But otherwise no.

As someone else said, the world does not revolve around you. You epitomize the me-me-me SUV culture that we find ourselves in today.

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You just summarized exactly what I said, assbag. Also, I am very much not the SUV me-me-me culture. You epitomize the illiterate idiot bigmouth troll culture that we find ourselves knee-deep in today.

[Dead]

It wasn't directed at you.

I just quoted your post. I was directing it to the original poster. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Regards,
Dead

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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It wasn't directed at you.

I just quoted your post. I was directing it to the original poster. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Regards,
Dead

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Alright, sorry for going off, then. It's been a real long day. You gotta put a word in there about it being directed at the OP.

[fluxrad]

Holy [censored] some people are cut-throat on this board.

2-7 minutes? Are you guys timing the people in front of you?

I live in an apartment building and there are ~9 apartments to a washer/dryer. If there's someone using the washer, I come back later. I don't [censored] time them. I don't wait for the load to finish. I just come back later. If it's busy again, then I'll try to come back when the cycle is complete (i.e. if there's 15 minutes left, I'll come back in 15 minutes or so)

If I'm in a situation where the dryer is taken then I'll wait for it. I'll leave my stuff in the washer for a few minutes (usually ~15) and see if the other person has got their stuff out. If not, then I'll pile it on top of the dryer. But this horseshit about waiting like five minutes is just ridiculous. Don't you have other stuff to do? Go clean your friggin' mirror so you can stare at yourself init. That must take five minutes.

Idunno - what really irritated me was this "me me me" post above, about how people who don't come back quickly enough are inconsiderate. What about the people who automatically assume a load that's been left in the washer for 5 minutes has been abandoned? They're not inconsiderate or impatient?

[censored] people.

If it's been sitting there for 15 minutes then go ahead and put the load in the dryer, or pile the dried load up on top of the dryer. But for chrissakes, most of us don't have egg timers set just for laundry. Waiting like 5 minutes and throwing someone's laundry out on its ass is just anal and impatient.

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Just shut up dude.

You're even worse than the OP.

There is only ONE washer unit and ONE dryer unit in his apartment. That girl(by the way what the [censored] does her being Asian have to do with anything? he wouldn't say "white girl" if she was white) was in the right, and he was in the wrong. It's just that simple. When you live in an apartment building or in a dorm, and you put a load of laundry in, you should be there within 5 minutes of it finishing. If you can't be, then you shouldn't bitch about someone removing your laundry and putting it on top. They shouldn't even have to though. When I was at college and someone had left their [censored] in one of the units that wasn't going, I would just take the [censored] out and throw it on the floor. I wasn't about to fold it and make that kind of effort when they were being inconsiderate pricks.

[fluxrad]

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When I was at college and someone had left their [censored] in one of the units that wasn't going, I would just take the [censored] out and throw it on the floor. I wasn't about to fold it and make that kind of effort when they were being inconsiderate pricks

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This pretty much sums up why your opinion doesn't matter.

In any thread.

Ever.

[jakethebake]

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You are way off base. I had to deal with this [censored] during my first two years of college, living in the dorms. If your laundry is done, and you've left it and don't come back within 5 minutes of it finishing, then you forfeit your right to use the washer/dryer until she has finishes hers. I'm going to take your clothes out and put them on top. I don't care if they're done or not. IF you had been there when the cycle finished(or very soon after), THEN you would have the right to run it through again. But otherwise no.

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Did you not read the part where she took his clothes out 15 minutes before his dryer cycle was done? Dryer cycle is an hour. He came back in an hour. Hers cycle had 45 mins left => she took his out 15 mins early.