You all know that I really hate rude people. I've mentioned it in the past, but it requires being mentioned again. And, yes, I know that I'm too nice..... although I think my family would beg to differ!!So my latest run-in with a rude person was today while I was doing my laundry. And maybe she wouldn't be considered rude so much as inconsiderate, but anyway....
When I moved into the city, I moved into an apartment that did not have a washer and dryer in it, which for me was a challenge in and of itself. Luckily, there are washers and driers in the garage, nice, new, industrial washers and driers. And there are six of them, you would think that would be plenty for a building with maybe 60 units. In my opinion, it is perfectly reasonable, as long as everybody is considerate of the others in the building. Well, I do my laundry on Tuesday mornings, because I work from home and I would think that the appliances would readily available. I've been doing this for a couple of weeks and have had no problem...until today!!
This morning I go down with a couple of loads, and find only ONE machine available. ONE!! Of the five that were remaining, four of them had approximately 5 minutes left to run and one was sitting there finished. Well, I put my darks into the one available and started it up, then headed back up to my place to get the rest of the laundry (yeah, I had a couple of weeks worth to do and couldn't carry it in one trip). I got a little side tracked answering some emails and taking a call, so it was about 30 minutes by the time I got back down to the laundry. My one load had 4 minutes left on it and the other five were all finished but just sitting there with wet clothes in them. Well, I decided that I would wait for my one load to finish, put it into the dryer, put another load in, and then if nobody came to remove the other clothes, I would just pull out two of the loads and put them in the baskets that are sitting in front of the washers.
So, as I was pulling clothes out of one of the washers, this young female (can't say girl or lady) shows up looking like she literally just rolled out of bed (jammies and wrinkle impressions on the face). I apologized saying "tee hee, sorry did I just take out your things?" She was all put out with "Harrumph, yeah." She then took her clothes out of 4 of the 5 washers and promptly took up FIVE dryers!!!
I put my clothes in the washers and left. I looked at my watch and made the mental note that I needed to be back in 30 minutes, which I was. I get my darks out of the ONE dryer that I was using and then looked into the other driers to see what was available since ALL of them were finished.... Yep, you guessed it not a single other drier could be used as they still had clothes in them. So, I shoved my 3 loads of laundry (after sorting out the items that I hang dry) into the ONE drier that I had to use.
It is now time that I go check on my laundry and see if things are dry. Keep your fingers crossed. I'll let you know if HER things are still down there!!!
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Ooops... ABBA is Domestically Challenged
I have been doing my laundry for over 20 years and I have NEVER done anything of this nature.
I have washed and dried wool sweaters and shrunk them into Barbie clothes. I have melted bras and panties, but I chalk that up to the super heat coming out of the industrial driers in the laundromat at college and the fact that I wore cheap polyester undergarments before I accepted the wonders of cotton. I have over loaded the washer to the point that it poured soapy water all over the floor. I have let the washer get off-balance so that it literally walked across the floor. I have practically burned down the house by not cleaning out the lint trap on the drier. But, I have never made this mistake, until this week.
I have been moving into the city this past week, so my mind and time has been a little fragmented and ADD. As I was wrapping things up at the old place, you know vacuuming and boxing up the food and cleaning stuff, I decided to do a last couple of loads of laundry since my new place is going to charge me to use the washers and driers.
In my haste, I just threw a bunch of things (towels, t-shirts, undies, bath mats, etc.) into a load. Here is where I went wrong. I threw in a cheap, all be it very pretty, red rag rug that I had by my front door in with all these items. I used cold water, but that didn't save me. As I opened up the washer and started chucking things into the drier, I almost had to kick myself, except for the fact that it was just the perfect ending to the day.... You guessed it, the red rug bled all over everything.... Luckily nothing too important was ruined. I now have some lovely pink undies and a pink t-shirt or two. My mint green flannel jammie bottoms are a strange mottled puke color and my pale blue bath mat is some odd shade as are the blue and green striped towels. The weirdest item by far is the cream bath mat that came out 1/2 cream 1/2 strawberry colored in a random tie-dyed fashion.
Sadly, there was some dye left in the washer when I ran my next load which was my white sheets and my white mattress pad, but luckily they aren't too terribly ruined, just a little tinged in pink and it may have just been my eyes that were reading pink into them.
You may be asking yourself, ABBA, what have you learned from this? Have you learned to sort your clothes better? Have you learned to use those little sheets that supposedly draw dye to them? Have you learned to rinse out your washer after washing darks?
No, I haven't learned any of those things. What I did learn was.... if you buy a cheap red rag rug from Target, when it gets dirty, just throw it out. While that might not be the best earth-friendly lesson, but at least you won't risk turning your flannel jammies into a puke color!!
I have washed and dried wool sweaters and shrunk them into Barbie clothes. I have melted bras and panties, but I chalk that up to the super heat coming out of the industrial driers in the laundromat at college and the fact that I wore cheap polyester undergarments before I accepted the wonders of cotton. I have over loaded the washer to the point that it poured soapy water all over the floor. I have let the washer get off-balance so that it literally walked across the floor. I have practically burned down the house by not cleaning out the lint trap on the drier. But, I have never made this mistake, until this week.
I have been moving into the city this past week, so my mind and time has been a little fragmented and ADD. As I was wrapping things up at the old place, you know vacuuming and boxing up the food and cleaning stuff, I decided to do a last couple of loads of laundry since my new place is going to charge me to use the washers and driers.
In my haste, I just threw a bunch of things (towels, t-shirts, undies, bath mats, etc.) into a load. Here is where I went wrong. I threw in a cheap, all be it very pretty, red rag rug that I had by my front door in with all these items. I used cold water, but that didn't save me. As I opened up the washer and started chucking things into the drier, I almost had to kick myself, except for the fact that it was just the perfect ending to the day.... You guessed it, the red rug bled all over everything.... Luckily nothing too important was ruined. I now have some lovely pink undies and a pink t-shirt or two. My mint green flannel jammie bottoms are a strange mottled puke color and my pale blue bath mat is some odd shade as are the blue and green striped towels. The weirdest item by far is the cream bath mat that came out 1/2 cream 1/2 strawberry colored in a random tie-dyed fashion.
Sadly, there was some dye left in the washer when I ran my next load which was my white sheets and my white mattress pad, but luckily they aren't too terribly ruined, just a little tinged in pink and it may have just been my eyes that were reading pink into them.
You may be asking yourself, ABBA, what have you learned from this? Have you learned to sort your clothes better? Have you learned to use those little sheets that supposedly draw dye to them? Have you learned to rinse out your washer after washing darks?
No, I haven't learned any of those things. What I did learn was.... if you buy a cheap red rag rug from Target, when it gets dirty, just throw it out. While that might not be the best earth-friendly lesson, but at least you won't risk turning your flannel jammies into a puke color!!
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