Communal living FAIL

[tenlittlebullets]

Situation: You live in a dorm of approximately 70 people. You have three loads of laundry. There are three washing machines in the dorm and they are all free. Do you:

a) Do your laundry one load at a time like you used to do back home where there was only one washer, or
b) Take up all three washers, because it's not like anyone else would want to do their laundry on a rainy Friday afternoon with no homework on the immediate horizon?

Let us say you have chosen failtastic option (b). You are just about to pay for the last machine when somebody comes into the laundry room with a single load. Do you:

a) Leave her the last washer, or
b) Blithely continue paying for the washer and tell her "I'm using all three washers--and I've already paid for them. Come back in an hour and a half."?

Miss Manners would be so proud of me for not ripping her fucking face off despite the full knowledge that because of this twit's shenanigans, I will be doing my three loads of laundry until very late tonight. Because I am not an asshole and I do one load at a time.

Comments

[mmejavert.livejournal.com]

To be fair, when I lived in a dorm I would always do my laundry on Friday night/Saturday late morning-early afternoon BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE DID. EVERYBODY did the laundry on Sunday and hauled up their homework while they waited for it to finish. No one EVER, though, took more than two wash machines/dryers even if there were only two people doing wash in there. Because everyone in my dorm had had, at least once, someone taking their laundry out of the machine and leaving it wrinkly all over the table. So everyone figured out to just share the machines. We did have 20 wash machines and 30 dryers, however there were around 300 girls to share them.


But that's failtastic. I'd've bitched and said, I'm taking this dryer and I'll give you the fucking money for your load when mine is done.

[coryrain.livejournal.com]

Wait wait, your washers take an hour and a half to run! OMG! Mine only takes like 26 minutes! I woulda put the dang quarters in and said "sorry, what's your room number, I'll let you know when I'm done!"

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Nonono. The washers take half an hour and the dryers take an hour. And there are only three of each. So I guess her plan was to use all the washers and then all the dryers, but I came back two hours later and her stuff was STILL in the washer soaking wet and getting wrinkly. So you can bet I dumped it in an undignified pile on the table and got my laundry started.

[crystaisilence.livejournal.com]

I take all three up pretty much every time I do laundry. I guess I should feel bad, but I kind of don't care. I've been here for 4 years. I have earned my washing rights

[crystaisilence.livejournal.com]

Granted, if someone asked me if they could have one, I guess I would give it up, but I mean... if I'm awake at 10PM on Sunday, noone else is, and I have no clothes left (which is usually what it gets down to), I don't really understand why I should stay awake until 2AM doing my laundry when I could be done at 12. Just a thought. *shrug* I'd like to think that that does not make me an asshole.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Eh. While I still think taking up all three washers is kind of dickish (seriously, couldn't she have left just one?), it was the "fuck you, these washers are mine, come back later" attitude that set off my BLIND FURY instincts. I mean, it's one thing to do it when you think nobody's around to get bothered by it, but telling someone right there in front of you to go away and carry her single load back up four flights of stairs because you claimed all the washers is fucking rude.