Yes, that awkward moment when someone comes in after you've moved their clothes happened.
1. I hope she was having a terrible day that could explain her tone and manners (or lack thereof).
2. I hope her husband got over his blatant embarrassment marked by his sheepish silence.
3. I hope I have the chance to run into her again on better terms.
It was an "Um did you move these? Yeah, we don't do that here - don't touch our stuff." I apologized, explained we had waited but didn't know how long we should wait, and apologized again. I continued to try and get to know our new neighbors by asking where they were from, how long they'd been married, and where they went to school. I got one cut off with word answers and no smiles. Yikes.
Ben and I spent the rest of the night brainstorming possible responses:
Option 1: Well, what do you do here then when someone leaves their clothes sitting unattneded in an unused washer and you need to do laundry?
Option 2: Oh, if its in the middle of a cycle, or sitting in your apartment, I will never touch it. I don't particularly enjoy moving other peoples stuff, especially when its when clothes. But if its just sitting in a machine I need, and pay to use, then I'm sorry, but I will move it every time.
There were a few more we'd never really actually say. Maybe I'm a terrible person. Hopefully this girl and I can end up being friends. And hopefully, her day didn't end as terrible as it sounded.
15 comments:
HA! I think that its funny she got mad. I would have gone with option sarcasm. I think it was inconsiderate on their part to leave them on top of the washer unattended. I would have moved them too.
At my school this happens all the time. It's very normal. Most people don't wait any time at all--it's your responsibility to be there to get your laundry when it comes out. If it's sitting for ANY amount of time and is blocking other people's ability to do laundry, it's totally within your right to take it out and place it somewhere clean. The only instance where this might be rude is if you put it on the floor or on top of a laundry machine that was very very dirty.
Since it was jeans and not undies, I would have folded them. She would have had to be in a really bad mood to resent that.
Since they were jeans and not undies, I would have folded them. She'd have to be in a really bad mood to be upset at that.
So ridiculous! I have moved people's clothes many times. Sometimes people will leave their clothes and not come back for hours...that makes me crazy!
I've moved clothes before and I am always so scared that something like this will happen, but I always fold their clothes after so if they DID happen to come in, they would not have a good reason to be mad.
People just dump my clothes out so I feel like I'm being quite nice by taking the time to fold clothes that I will not be wearing. Just reading this made me so angry, I can't stand when people are like that. I think if you are there for five or ten minutes and no one is coming at all, then it's open season.
Haha today, I had to move someone's laundry too. I went back and forth--especially when I saw that it was men's boxers, but after an hour and everyone in the laundromat saying "Just do it, they had their chance" I finally took the boxers out.
THEY SMELLED LIKE MILDEW! They'd been in there for days. In fact the whole washing machine reeked so bad, that I wouldn't even put my clothes in there.
So, I say, good call moving her clothes. Better safe than mildew.
Haha today, I had to move someone's laundry too. I went back and forth--especially when I saw that it was men's boxers, but after an hour and everyone in the laundromat saying "Just do it, they had their chance" I finally took the boxers out.
THEY SMELLED LIKE MILDEW! They'd been in there for days. In fact the whole washing machine reeked so bad, that I wouldn't even put my clothes in there.
So, I say, good call moving her clothes. Better safe than mildew.
Haha today, I had to move someone's laundry too. I went back and forth--especially when I saw that it was men's boxers, but after an hour and everyone in the laundromat saying "Just do it, they had their chance" I finally took the boxers out.
THEY SMELLED LIKE MILDEW! They'd been in there for days. In fact the whole washing machine reeked so bad, that I wouldn't even put my clothes in there.
So, I say, good call moving her clothes. Better safe than mildew.
Pretty much if you're going to get that upset over moving laundry in a communal space, you need to chill. I wouldn't take it personally. I'd guess it's been a high-stress day. Or she grew up an only child.
Not gonna lie, I would have moved her stuff as well. This happens in the sorority house, but we just sticky note stuff and put it on a table for them. Sometimes people get angry, and other times people understand!
you are nice to respond as nicely as you did! I would have freaked out on her. She doesn't get the laundry machine for an unlimited time and if her time is up and you're waiting, then yah, I think you have every right to move it. If she doesn't want someone moving her crap she should come move it herself. At the right time!
definitely would have moved them. you did the right thing. she should have been there with them and they were finished!
I would have moved the jeans too, and I think the woman was rude to respond as curtly as she did. :O
that is a sticky situation! But you did the right thing. Its a community machine and you cant be expected to wait for everyone on their own time you go by the timing of the machine and when their turn was up, then as they say " you snooze you loose"
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