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dud or TOTAL DUD: stupid motherfuckers who leave their dirty, smelly, wet laundry in your apartment building's machines for DAYS ON END

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here's the story: as the thread title says, some jackass has jammed up both the washer and dryer in my apartment building with their smelly, wet clothes since this saturday. i don't WHICH person it is, but i think that it is a female because there are female clothing items in the machines. this is NOT the first time this has happened, and i suspect that it is the same person who keeps doing it -- once, this dumbass left her shitty clothes in the fucking machines for over a WEEK before removing them. i'm really tempted to take the shit outta the machines and dump them on the sidewalk.

people like this deserve to be killed, slowly and painfully. what the FUCK is WRONG with some people?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 4 September 2006 05:46 (eighteen years ago)

just take the shit out! people who are too lazy to complete a laundry cycle don't deserve politeness in regard to their mildewing clothes.

― fellini-esque-lit-rockist (tehresa), Monday, 4 September 2006 05:51 (eighteen years ago)

i've done that before -- putting aside the fact that i've grossed out by touching other peoples' nasty-ass clothes. but what is REALLY annoying is that this keeps happening. this person needs to be taught a lesson -- without me getting in too much trouble with the landlord, though.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 4 September 2006 05:56 (eighteen years ago)

someone has a case of the badassness today. go get'er eisbär. ;-) attach a note to her clothes which says:"REDRUMREDRUMREDRUM"

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 4 September 2006 05:58 (eighteen years ago)

just take 'em out and dump them on the floor. how bad can they be if they've just been washed?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 4 September 2006 06:53 (eighteen years ago)

also you are totally justified in dumping them on the sidewalk.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 4 September 2006 06:53 (eighteen years ago)

Agreed. Also, I'll totally take this over the guy who used to wait until I'd loaded and started my clothes, then when I left the laundry room would pull my stuff out of the machine and put his stuff in, thereby snaking my sevety-five cents and leaving me with a pile of still dirty but now also wet clothes!

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

Is it very rare for Americans to have their own washing machine just like, in the kitchen? Because this scenario would be pretty unlikely over here. How many people, on average, share a washing machine?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

i've lived in a couple of blocks of flats with share laundries - if people left their shit in a machine and i wanted to use it, i would just get it out and put it in the nearest trough or their washing basket. why would you just leave it there to moulder?

― gem (trisk), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:28 (eighteen years ago)

Where I'm living one girl leaves hers wet on top of the machine and then gets offended that someone's had the audacity to remove it, decides it's somehow unclean after this intercession and then WASHES IT AGAIN only to leave for another unique user to find. I feel like leaving it in a black bin liner with WET, UNSTYLISH CLOTHING labelling on the side.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

haha, do it.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

The bin liner has already happened; I'm saving the note for next time (and/or toying with a sticker that says CHAVWEAR instead; my tolerance levels are not what they might be right now). We are also toying with the idea of removing the outlets fuse in this girl's room if it passes 1am and her music is still cranking.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:18 (eighteen years ago)

Put the offending wet washing in a black plastic bin liner and tie it shut. By the time the owner has rreturned to reclaim it, it will (hopefully) have turned nicely mouldy.

That'll larn 'em.

― C J (C J), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:20 (eighteen years ago)

well, i went and did it -- took the nasty shit outta the machines, dumped 'em in a bin, and cleaned my clothes. fuck 'em.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 05:58 (eighteen years ago)

u cant do this in my building becasue your shit gets stolen.

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 08:16 (eighteen years ago)

Is it common for people not to use soap when doing laundry? Because one of my neighbors' clothes, when I recently took them out of the dryer after a completed wash/dry cycle, were the rankest things I'd ever smelled.

― Bnad (Bnad), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

Matt, no one I know who rents an apartment in NYC has their own laundry facilities in-house. Some larger complexes may have a shared laundry in the basement, but with rare exceptions, that's about it.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

I can't believe that none of these morons get their clothes nicked! I would never leave my clothes unattended in a communal laundrette. Unless I went away for, like, five minutes, to get a sandwich or something.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

Matt, no one I know who rents an apartment in NYC has their own laundry facilities in-house. Some larger complexes may have a shared laundry in the basement, but with rare exceptions, that's about it.

most large NY apt buildings have in-house laundry facilities. in-apt washer-dryers are rare, but not unheard of.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

haha yeah i was gonna say, where do you people live that you can leave your stuff in the washing machine without fear

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I don't think I know many people who live in large, multi-unit buildings, aside from, like, my boss and other assorted "grown ups". Most of us are renting in row houses in Brooklyn, for one reason or another.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, "rents" is an important qualifier. there are lots of large apt buildings that are rental buildings, of course,m but there are lots that aren't.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

Is it very rare for Americans to have their own washing machine just like, in the kitchen?

for people who live in apartments, yes it is rare. (ah xpost)

i loathe laundromats and hope I never have to use one again.

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

I use the (public) launderette weekly and nobody seems to have any qualms about either a) going away during the cycle or b) removing other people's clothes and putting them in the plastic tubs provided if the place is full and the owner hasn't returned. All very civilised usually.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

Ummm... it's very common around here to leave your cloths unattended while they're in the wash; I've never had any problems. It's also normal, in shared laundry facilities, to just leave forgotten washes ontop of the machine. I don't see it as anything to get bent out of shape about!

xpost of agreement

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

I lived in a building once with a crackhead dude who washed/dried his shoes in the machines, always in the wee hours of the night. You could clearly hear the shoes-in-dryer everywhere in the building. One Sunday night/Monday morning, the girl across the hall came storming out of her apartment cussing up a storm, she went and took his shoes out of the dryer and chucked them in the trash. I'm certain a bunch of other tenants knew what had happened, but when crackhead Frank had his freakout, no one ratted. COMMUNITY.

― captain reverend gandalf jesus (nickalicious), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

haha yeah i was gonna say, where do you people live that you can leave your stuff in the washing machine without fear

apparently someone in my apartment building doesn't have this fear!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

that is awesome
xpost

yeah, i've never had any issue with pulling people's wet clothes out of the machine if i need to use it. if it's rank, it's a bit gross but it's not like there aren't sinks in the world with soap for washing hands. people in my building are pretty clean and respectful though wrt laundry. the laundromats i've gone to in montreal have always made me feel like a Really Together Person, y'know, in that I have my laundry in a big army bag and a napsack and my detergent in a yogurt containment while more than half the other people use a ripped up garbage bag and may or may not use one of those little things of detergent you buy there.

i always guard my laundry too.

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

Crazy - no one here seems to have the fear! Truly we are free!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

Didn't anyone ever go college/uni?

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

*puts hand up*

We had a campus laundrette, people left lots of things lots of places for varying periods of time. Handily the laundrette adjoined the bar, so it was possible to get a few drinks in then fold your clothes drunk.

Someone please start a revolution of bars with laundrette facilities and good pizza? PLEASE!

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, Jon, but I went to a Christian school, all very "do unto others" an' shit. Nothing ever really happened to the laundry. It was also a "dry" campus. COINCIDENCE?!?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

no pizza but. . .

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

The washers and dryers at my daughter's school are free! (BYO detergent of course.) Of the changes from when I went to school, I think that surprised me more than textbook prices. Also, they're set up to give an email alert when the washer's done and it's time to move 'em to a dryer.

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

Also, they're set up to give an email alert when the washer's done and it's time to move 'em to a dryer.

ok that's just wrong.

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

Wrong as in fucking awesome?

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

i remember my freshman dorm had a washroom. but college was 30 minutes from my parents, so i usually brought my dirty clothes home for mom to wash!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

I'm all down for life by email but surely there has to be limits? how soon till our bowels become programmable so we can get an email when it's time to. . .oh nevermind.

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.mjukvara.net/newmail/en/smallScreen.jpg

*ring* YOU'VE GOT PILES!


(Sarah said she doesn't use the email alert, by the way.)

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

Email isn't as useful as a sms for something like this.

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

It would be handier if it sent a text massage or phoned with a pre recorded message. I don't check my e-mail when I'm laundry day drinking.

xpost

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

Our upstairs neighbors do this ALL THE TIME. I have zero problem with piling their stuff, be it wet, dry, or both, on top of the machine.

They also NEVER empty the dryer lint trap, and wash/dry their kid's (and maybe their own, who knows) clothes without checking the pockets, so there is invariably a wad of paper, styrofoam, and other objects in there along with the mass of lint.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

I found a used condom emptying someone else's stuff once. At least it was washed, maybe they were going to use it again...

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

I lived in a building once with a crackhead dude who washed/dried his shoes in the machines, always in the wee hours of the night.

Niklish dude, did you live with Billy West? hahah - have you heard his story about how when he was a major boozer/cokehead, he put his microwave dinner in the dryer once to like, thaw it out or cook it or something. And then forgot about it and passed out. And the next day all his apartment neighbours were in the hall going "omg did you see the gross stinky burnt thing in the dryer? WHAT IS IT??".

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:15 (eighteen years ago)

This is why I prefer to go the laundromat instead of using the washer/dryer in the basement of my building. I can do multiple loads, wash and dry, all in under an hour and a half. Bring a book and an iPod, it's no hassle at all.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:23 (eighteen years ago)

people who do what's described in the thread title are total dud, but it's also total dud when i show up to retrieve my laundry A MINUTE LATE (sheesh) and someone has already dumped everything on the table. decorum: wait like five minutes.

― golana murcalumis (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:43 (eighteen years ago)

i got so burned on this a little while ago--there was clothing sitting in the dryer forever and i needed it so i got pissed off and took it out. then the lady who worked at the laundromat saw the clothing sitting there and she folded it all up nice! and i got all mad because she was REWARDING the offender! and then the offender turned out to be my friend and i got even madder because he totally busted my balls about it.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:44 (eighteen years ago)

OMGWTFLOL THIS IDIOT STILL HASN'T TAKEN HER SHIT OUTTA THE MACHINES!!

(and yes, i dumped them out AGAIN in order to do my wash -- and her wash REALLY stinks of mildew right now.)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 11 September 2006 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

this dumb bitch moved outta our building! :-)

― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 19:17 (sixteen years ago)

Is you anglicized "Eisbaer" the same as our nordicized "Eisbär"?

― Aimless, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 19:39 (sixteen years ago)

yes -- i hadn't discovered how to get the umlaut over the "a" when I took my nom d'ILX.

― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 19:42 (sixteen years ago)

actually, i FORGOT to do the a-umlaut thing when i re-registered for ILX.

― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 19:43 (sixteen years ago)

Well then, my felicitations upon the selfremoval of this dumb bitch from your life.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 19:47 (sixteen years ago)

this dumb bitch sounds like me except i have my own washer and dryer to do this in to my hearts content

― sunny successor, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 20:10 (sixteen years ago)

I have laundry facilities in my new building for the first time in at least... 16 years? But a total cost per load of $4.50 to wash and dry?? I will be stuffing those machines for all they're worth.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 16:41 (sixteen years ago)


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