Apartment building laundry ettiquite! Resolution necessary!

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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...

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

pooper time

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Light her's on fire.

That'll learn her.

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Light her's on fire.

That'll learn her.

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LOLOL... or better yet, pour some gasoline in with the clothes, and attach a piece of flint to one side of the dryer door and another piece of metal to the other.

Then close the dryer door verrrrryyyy carefully.

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[Dynasty]

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This is a strange topic to come up so often.

[dtbog]

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She had a lot of clothes, man. They're not all fitting up there.

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[Yeti]

If I was her I'd have waited a couple of minutes and put your clothes in the dryer. It obviously looks a little bad if you walk in immediately after but having lived in a similar situation, there are some idiots who won't show up for hours.

Kinda confused on the last bit. She's taken your clothes out 15 minutes early and now they're still wet? Tell her to fuck off?

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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This is a strange topic to come up so often.

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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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Kinda confused on the last bit. She's taken your clothes out 15 minutes early and now they're still wet? Tell her to fuck off?

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Well, I assume that she took them out 15 minutes early -- but let's ignore that. Let's say my watch was broken, or the plug on the dryer fell out, or whatever.

Would you remove someone's WET clothes from a dryer? ...or would you assume that someone is still using that dryer?

Assume, since she saw that I came down immediately after my washer load finished, that she knows I didn't leave town, and I'm not a jerk who commandeers the machines for 6 hours.

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[jakethebake]

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you guys are better than Ann Landers any day.

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sounds like a dear bison to me.