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[waterspyder]

I feel thwarted

I go to print my notes to study from, and it turns out that I'm out of ink.

ggrr snarl


and then I go down to get my laundry early from the dryer and someone has taken out my clothes BEFORE the time ran out. It really pisses me off since there were also empty and functional dryers available...

Quiz time.. what would you have done?

Comments

[dolston.livejournal.com]

Throwing some bleach in with their clothes would have learned them.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

This, of course, is the main disadvantage of being female. You lack the plumbing to easily deposit a more pointed statement than bleach.

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

I opted to open the dryer door.

The great thing about public dryers is the timer keeps running....

[demonalissa.livejournal.com]

I beg to differ. Just because one is female doesn't mean we cannot be far more gross if we wanted.

We have fluids you guys dont, but it only comes once a month.

Man, that would be quite the vengance. I don't think anyone deserves THAT...well, maybe one person, I wont name names. :P

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

That doesn't count as "easy".

[thechekist.livejournal.com]

take their clothes, destroy them, put the remains back into the dryer (or in a bucket by the dryer, etc... you get the point) with a note: "if you have no respect for other people's clothing, i have no respect for yours."

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Oh, *good*. Let's all respond to the inconsiderate by becoming not only inconsiderate, but self-righteous vandals.

Keen.

[panthertriad.livejournal.com]

open bottle of acrylic paint like you can buy at the dollar store, toss in, shut door, let run.

they just have to wash their clothes again.

teaches a lesson, but doesn't destroy

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Speaking as someone who uses both cheap and reasonable-quality acrylic paints on a daily basis...

...you have a very elastci definition of "doesn't destroy", and that's leaving aside what acrylic will do to the lint filter.

[panthertriad.livejournal.com]

thats also not counting the paint smeared along the inside of the dryer, which will have dried and flaked off covering clothes for the next couple of dry-ings.

Still.. its less destructive that tearing up their clothes or using bodily fluids...

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Based on my experience with my cats during the last miserable day and a half, I am guessing that urine would in fact be less destructive than acrylic paint.

Stupid cats.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Take a deep breath.

Remind myself "As long as I am capable of keeping in mind that they might be having a worse day than me, it is possible that they are having a worse day than me."[1] Perhaps they were using that dryer earlier, and had recently lost their credit card, and were checking in a panic to see if it had fallen out there since they'd looked everywhere else. Perhaps the person had been told the other dryers weren't working; perhaps the person using the dryer you were using is not the same person who took your stuff out. Perhaps they thought my stuff was dry, or really really really needed their one good blouse for the job interview and didn't have the change to run the dryer.

(Inexcusable and not-understandable are two different things. I swear to god I actually do think like this.)

Get my stuff. Swear and snarl a bit (if no-one's around). Possibly kick a wall if I'm having a really bad day.

Either put my stuff back in the (or another) dryer and restart it or take it upstairs if its dry.

Petty vandalism is never a solution, and means you were a petty vandal.

What did you do?
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[1] If I can't keep this in mind, they might *still* be having a worse day than me, but since I am no longer up to considering it it no longer factors into my considerations.

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

Laundry timeline
Well, I was the first person in the laundry room at 9am (as I dislike competition for such dryers)

Washers take 41 minutes
Dryers take 32 minutes (or $0.20 for an extra 4 minutes)

There are 9 washing machines and 4 industrial dryers that take 2 washfuls

I put in my first load at 9am
I put in my second load at 9:20am

I came back and threw wash 1 into the dryer at 9:50 and then waited until 10am to throw wash two into the 2nd dryer. There are still two dryers left. Someone's wash had also been started just prior to my arrival in the room, putting their clothes to be ready for the dryer around 10:30.

Wash 1 is thus slated to be dry at 10:20 and wash 2 is slated to be dry at 10:35 (since i bought extra time to make sure my towels and linens were dry)


So I came back down at 10:30am to find that wash 1 was untouched, but wash 2 had been removed from the dryer and tossed on the counter, sink and floor and 2 dryers still available for use. On top of this I probably had anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes left on the dryer.

This is why I am angry. It's not like it's a busy laundry room. I understand that *maybe* it was some obesessive compulsive individual that *had* to use *that* machine.

What did I do?
I popped the dryer open while I was in the laundry room folding my clothes (appx 15 minutes)

Had it been busy, or had I been late picking up my clothes and no other dryers available (since they all work), I could have understood, but as afar as I'm concerned this was someone trying to steal the time off my dryer.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Hang on, I'm not clear on something; was your laundry dry when it was prematurely taken out of the washer or not?

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

not completely despite loading it correctly

[kruszer.livejournal.com]

if i was in a pissy mood I would have taken their stuff out of the dryer and dumped it on the floor. nothing any more destructive than that. just something that counter-attacks suitably (clean clothes on not-so-clean-floor). the point would get across.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

> the point would get across.

A polite note does the same.

Am getting the distinct impression that "counter-attacking" is rather overstating the severity of the situation. It's clothes. It's a dryer. Is this meant to be *worth* doing something that in no way benefits you and only hurts or inconveniences someone else over?