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I hate living in apartments: Cliff notes at bottom.
I live in an apartment complex (8 buildings with 12 apartments each), and each building has two washers and one dryer.
There has always been problems here with people leaving their laundry in the washer and/or dryer after it has finished (as long as eight hours). Most of the major offenders are the families who came from Sudan (quite a few here). They seem start their laundry and go shopping or go to work, and then get them out when they come back.
A couple of days ago, I got home at 5:00 pm, and had one load of laundry to do. The laundry room was quiet, but there was one basket sitting there with clothes in it.
I get my load together, go out there, and look in the washers, and sure enough, there are clothes in there that have already completed their cycle.
I leave my clothes out there, and go back into my apartment and wait. An hour later I go back out, and nothing has changed. I decide to cook and eat dinner first before taking their clothes out.
I go back out around 7:30 pm, and the clothes are still there. I get a clean bag from my apartment, take out one of their loads, and put their clothes in it. I sit the bag down next to the washer.
I go back out a 8:00 pm to get my laundry, and the person has decided to start drying their first load (they weren't out there, but the dryer was running).
I take my clothes and put them back into my basket to wait and dry them.
I go back out about 8:30 pm, and their is a note written in pencil stating:
"You dont ever touch my clothes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ever again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was like WTF? No sooner did I read this, I heard someone running up the stairs toward the laundry room. It was the psycho Sudan 40+ guy who lives downstairs from me (he kind of just wanders around the parking lot all times of the day acting like he is doing karate).
He starts to scream at me "You don't ever touch my wifes clothes" and gets right in my face and clinches his fist. I told him, "don't leave them in there for two and half hours and I won't".
He then acts like he is going to hit me, and I tell him he better think twice about it. I tell him to get the fvck out of my face. He agains tells me that "I will never touch his wifes clothes". I tell him the next time I will throw them in the garbage.
Well, there is a lot of threats on his part (payback, damage to my stuff, etc.), and a lot of cussing and screaming from both, but nothing happened...........well he did grab my basket and throw it my leg, but it didn't hurt.
I go in because I am ready to beat the piss out of the guy, but being 28, I know better than doing so (and I have just received two promotions at my job in the last 6 months and I don't feel like going to jail).
The next day, I give the letter to the landlord with a letter of what happened. She put a sign up stating that clothes left more than thirty minutes will be removed. She also told him if he does anything he is evicted or if any of my items become damaged, he will be responsible.
Cliff Notes:
1. Waited 2 1/2 hours to do one load of laundry
2. Put their clothes in a bag
3. Crazy downstairs neighbor thinks about fighting me
4. Jerry Springer like argument starts
5. Take crazy neighbors letter to landlord
6. Crazy neighbor is told not to do anything again or he gets evicted.
I live in an apartment complex (8 buildings with 12 apartments each), and each building has two washers and one dryer.
There has always been problems here with people leaving their laundry in the washer and/or dryer after it has finished (as long as eight hours). Most of the major offenders are the families who came from Sudan (quite a few here). They seem start their laundry and go shopping or go to work, and then get them out when they come back.
A couple of days ago, I got home at 5:00 pm, and had one load of laundry to do. The laundry room was quiet, but there was one basket sitting there with clothes in it.
I get my load together, go out there, and look in the washers, and sure enough, there are clothes in there that have already completed their cycle.
I leave my clothes out there, and go back into my apartment and wait. An hour later I go back out, and nothing has changed. I decide to cook and eat dinner first before taking their clothes out.
I go back out around 7:30 pm, and the clothes are still there. I get a clean bag from my apartment, take out one of their loads, and put their clothes in it. I sit the bag down next to the washer.
I go back out a 8:00 pm to get my laundry, and the person has decided to start drying their first load (they weren't out there, but the dryer was running).
I take my clothes and put them back into my basket to wait and dry them.
I go back out about 8:30 pm, and their is a note written in pencil stating:
"You dont ever touch my clothes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ever again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was like WTF? No sooner did I read this, I heard someone running up the stairs toward the laundry room. It was the psycho Sudan 40+ guy who lives downstairs from me (he kind of just wanders around the parking lot all times of the day acting like he is doing karate).
He starts to scream at me "You don't ever touch my wifes clothes" and gets right in my face and clinches his fist. I told him, "don't leave them in there for two and half hours and I won't".
He then acts like he is going to hit me, and I tell him he better think twice about it. I tell him to get the fvck out of my face. He agains tells me that "I will never touch his wifes clothes". I tell him the next time I will throw them in the garbage.
Well, there is a lot of threats on his part (payback, damage to my stuff, etc.), and a lot of cussing and screaming from both, but nothing happened...........well he did grab my basket and throw it my leg, but it didn't hurt.
I go in because I am ready to beat the piss out of the guy, but being 28, I know better than doing so (and I have just received two promotions at my job in the last 6 months and I don't feel like going to jail).
The next day, I give the letter to the landlord with a letter of what happened. She put a sign up stating that clothes left more than thirty minutes will be removed. She also told him if he does anything he is evicted or if any of my items become damaged, he will be responsible.
Cliff Notes:
1. Waited 2 1/2 hours to do one load of laundry
2. Put their clothes in a bag
3. Crazy downstairs neighbor thinks about fighting me
4. Jerry Springer like argument starts
5. Take crazy neighbors letter to landlord
6. Crazy neighbor is told not to do anything again or he gets evicted.
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