For the most part, you are quiet and not assholes, so…thanks for that.
On the other hand, I’m not sure if you’re aware, but there is a slight distinction between a “closet” and a “washing machine” or “dryer.”
You see, a closet is a small room, in your apartment, to be used for the storage of your clothing and other possesions. Also for the storage of your clothing and other possessions: a chest of drawers, chiffarobe, trunk, cardboard box, bedroom floor, dining room table, or if you are really industrious (foolish), your oven. All of these things, you may notice, are commonly found within your living space.
The washing machines and dryers in our communal basement, on the other hand, are for, well, washing and drying. (If they were for your personal storage, they would be called, say, “#11B Storage Machines.”)Specifically, washing and drying clothing and linens, and they are for all of our use. The washer runs for 30 minutes, the dryer an hour.
This means that throwing your crap in either and leaving it there for hours or days is inappropriate. Also inappropriate: tossing your luggage in for a spin without bothering to empty it of papers, pens, candies and feminine hygiene products; leaving used feminine hygiene products in your clothes during washing so that when I have to remove your clothes from the machine (as I so often have to do), I get a handful of your kitten juices; not bothering to clean the washer or dryer of the detritus that emerges from your load. Unless that detritus is cash or coin, I don’t want to deal with it.
In short, wash your shit, come back within the hour, dry your shit, come back within two hours, and then take it all back to your apartment and do with it what you will.
Please and thanks,
Sid
It would be such a shame if someone accidentally spilled chlorine bleach on some of those semi-abandoned possessions. Or sand. Or mustard.
Ew. Ewww. Who does that? Oh right, your neighbors. I’m with Orange on the “suggestions”.
I’m always so paranoid about leaving my laundry. I used to wait for it in the laundry room in university so I KNEW no one had touched it. When I finally got over that I would still come back early and wait the last 10 minutes for the cycle to end so no one had an excuse to touch it. (moving unfinished laundry is just rude!) I still rush back to the laundry room to get my stuff ready to yell at anyone who so much as opens the door to see if there is anything inside the washer/dryer that my stuff is in.
Well usually. Sometimes I forget and the laundry room gets locked for the night (stops ‘vandalism’ they say *shrug*). But you better believe I’m the first one down there at 8am the next morning when it opens ready to grab my stuff.
Your neighbours are WAY inconsiderate.
I like to do my laundry on week nights at the laundromat. I can and often do 6 plus loads at once, fold it all, and take it home to put it away and not have to think about it again for a month. The dry cleaners is in the same spot so that’s an easy drop off and pick up too.
The word for today is…ICK!!!
Even with dirty clothes, I can’t imagine literate, educated, supposedly not-raised-by-wolves grown folks rolling like that.
I need hand sanitizer just from reading that!!
That’s just nasty! When I used shared machines in college I used to leave my stuff and come back a few minutes before the cycle ended. Until someone took my wet clothes out of the dryer and dried their’s on my dime. Then put my clothes back in fully wet! After that I babysat my laundry. I figured it was time to read.
Now that behavior of the feminine protection is a whole nother scale of someone needing to be slapped. I’d bag their crap up and hide it in the laundry room. Then when they ask tell them someone must have thought the dirty gross clothes were trash.
In the meantime I think a nice public notice about cleaning up and being considerate of others who use the facility is a good start.