It's All For You, Right?

[destrekor]

So, if a building provides the only washers and dryers available for the students living in it (not free, mind you), and the building only offers 4 washers, and 4 dryers... would you take up all four washers with your laundry if they are available?

Washers typically take around 25 minutes, and the dryers a typical load is 52 minutes.

I go down there, I only ever use 2 machines (I have two loads of clothes, like most normal people, typically once every week), and it's the afternoon so I figure I'll have a good chance of getting a machine.
What do I find? One guy in the room, just now paying the machines to get 4 loads of laundry going on the only 4 washers in the building.

Fucking. Asshole.

Now I have to wait at least an hour, because if I start any earlier my laundry will just sit there with no available dryer to be thrown into.

/rant

 

[Malak]

That's nothing. In the last apartment I lived in, we only had 2 each. This lady would come do her laundry except she would leave it in the dryer or washer for a couple of days.

 

[ElFenix]

That's nothing. In the last apartment I lived in, we only had 2 each. This lady would come do her laundry except she would leave it in the dryer or washer for a couple of days.

take it out, throw it on the floor.

if it's been there more than 10 minutes after it stopped running, it's fair game.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Actually, you would only need to wait until the dryers have ~25 minutes remaining because once your wash cycle is done the dryers will be available.

Also, he is the only one there as you stated, so if nobody else was using them what is the issue with somebody making use of them?

 

[destrekor]

That's nothing. In the last apartment I lived in, we only had 2 each. This lady would come do her laundry except she would leave it in the dryer or washer for a couple of days.

Here, people do that for too long, you're laundry is being moved to sit on top of the machine. I've had to move people's laundry that they've left sitting in for 10 or 20 minutes. But with all the machines having stuff in them, people are expecting the other machines instantly, and often the dryers have dried stuff in them, and people are waiting on my washers that I have washed clothes sitting in. Something's gotta give. People need to tend to their laundry in a timely manner, dammit.

 

[FoBoT]

that is why i would do laundry at 3 am , when i had to use shared equipments

 

[keird]

That's nothing. In the last apartment I lived in, we only had 2 each. This lady would come do her laundry except she would leave it in the dryer or washer for a couple of days.

If she's cute take her underwear as some sort of tax.

 

[destrekor]

Actually, you would only need to wait until the dryers have ~25 minutes remaining because once your wash cycle is done the dryers will be available.

Also, he is the only one there as you stated, so if nobody else was using them what is the issue with somebody making use of them?

How do you know someone won't want to use at least ONE of them? I think it's just called etiquette. Just because they are all there, doesn't mean you should use all of them in the event all are open. Never know if someone's best available time is 10 minutes after you walk out of the room.

Oh, and since I have to wait 25 minutes for his wash cycle, plus 25 minutes into his dryer cycle, that is effectively an hour after rounding and including time to move laundry.

 

[TallBill]

I bring my laundry to my mom's house. We usually do dinners on sundays. And yes, I do it myself.

 

[keird]

This guy hasn't considered that others my need to use the washers. Remove his clothes from a washer and place them dripping on another washer or table. Begin washing your clothes and assume a stance of dominance.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Would you rather he overfilled 2 of the machines and broke them?

That way you would get to enjoy 2 machines for the rest of the term...

Just saying...

 

[Brainonska511]

take it out, throw it on the floor.

if it's been there more than 10 minutes after it stopped running, it's fair game.

Some people are still assholes though. When I was living in the dorm, some girl was drying her winter coat and a pair of gloves in the dryer. As that dryer had just finished, I took the coat and gloves out and placed it on a chair, since the stuff was dry and I needed a dryer. I come back 30 minutes later to check on my stuff, I find it thrown across the room. What a fucking ass. I learned that if I'm going to move people's stuff, even if courteously doing it, I should stay behind and watch my own stuff due to the fucking self-righteous assholes who try to take revenge on your own stuff for having the nerve to move their clothing

 

[destrekor]

Would you rather he overfilled 2 of the machines and broke them?

That way you would get to enjoy 2 machines for the rest of the term...

Just saying...

Could do two loads at a time.

 

[Malak]

Who even has enough clothes to do 4 loads? I could do two, if most of my clothes were dirty.

 

[destrekor]

I bring my laundry to my mom's house. We usually do dinners on sundays. And yes, I do it myself.

I do that when I go home for a weekend, however... that's 2.5 hours away, so I don't go home for a weekend that often. Especially during fall quarter with all these football games, the away game weekends don't always match up with a good weekend to go home.
But it's so awesome when I do. I get good eats and free laundry.

 

[krylon]

Could do two loads at a time.

That's what she said

 

[KeithP]

How do you know someone won't want to use at least ONE of them? I think it's just called etiquette.

First come, first served is more applicable than "etiquette." At my apartment complex I will use as many machines as I need if they are available. It makes no sense to leave a couple of machines open just in case someone might want to use them.

2 loads seems rather arbitrary anyway. So if he puts two loads in, and you come along and put 2 loads in, are we going to see a thread started by someone else from your building complaining that two a-holes are hogging the machines and that he/she can't get their 1 load done?


-KeithP

 

[TallBill]

I do that when I go home for a weekend, however... that's 2.5 hours away, so I don't go home for a weekend that often. Especially during fall quarter with all these football games, the away game weekends don't always match up with a good weekend to go home.
But it's so awesome when I do. I get good eats and free laundry.

Heck yeah, win win. Oh, and I get to see my family too

 

[techs]

It's an algebra question, right?
I don't do algebra.

 

[BurnItDwn]

That sucks. I would hate to not have my own washer and dryer.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

How do you know someone won't want to use at least ONE of them? I think it's just called etiquette. Just because they are all there, doesn't mean you should use all of them in the event all are open. Never know if someone's best available time is 10 minutes after you walk out of the room.

Oh, and since I have to wait 25 minutes for his wash cycle, plus 25 minutes into his dryer cycle, that is effectively an hour after rounding and including time to move laundry.

I'm not saying that it wouldn't be polite to leave one machine open just in case, but the flip side is "I have 4 loads of laundry to do, there are 4 machines so if I do it all at the same time then it will be done faster".

Then again I think the more important question is: why the hell do you wait to have 4+ loads of laundry? Besides it's college, you have one load of non-whites and a second load of whites right?

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

That's nothing. In the last apartment I lived in, we only had 2 each. This lady would come do her laundry except she would leave it in the dryer or washer for a couple of days.

My douche bag house mates do that shit. Pisses me off. I usually throw their crap on the filthy concrete floor.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Also, he is the only one there as you stated, so if nobody else was using them what is the issue with somebody making use of them?

That's a strange argument. Do you think it's a douche bag move to intentionally park your car across 3 spaces just because no one else was using them when you got there?

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Could do two loads at a time.

That's what she said

 

[BoomerD]

If she's cute take her underwear as some sort of hat.

:hmm:

If no one else is using the machines, I wouldn't hesitate to take all four for my laundry.

Got a problem with that? Get there earlier, do your laundry in the wee hours of the morning, late at night, or just wait.

Why should I inconvenience myself for you?

HOWEVER, when I've had to use shared laundry facilities, (and it's been decades ago) I always was there waiting for washers to finish so the laundry could go right in the dryer, and waiting for the dryers to finish so the clothes didn't get wrinkled sitting in a cold dryer. (or thrown on the floor like some fuckwads seem to think is ok...or stolen.)