Wednesday
Jan072009
Who Gives A Shit: Laundry Etiquette 101?
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Erica | Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 12:53AM
Erica | Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 12:53AM 
Another simple question: (if you live in an apt building) Do you think its rude to leave your laundry sitting in the washer/dryer? and/or Do you go ballistic when other people touch your shit in the laundry room?
That's it.
Again, answer in the comments (and feel free to go stealth anon if you want some prive).
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Reader Comments (9)
Fuck that. Everyone knows NY laundry rules.
1. You don't wash, that's fine, but no cutting in on someone who is.
2. You've got one minute to get your dry shit out of the dryer or it's going on top of the dryer.
3. You've got one minute to get your wet shit out of the washer or it goes in the dryer (with door open), unless there's already something drying in the dryer, and then you have til that load is dry since I'll assume it's yours.
4. If I put your shit in the dryer and I come back in 20 and your shit is still sitting there, it's going, wet, on top of the dryer until I'm done with my laundry, and no cutting in. You had your shot.
5. Put all the quarters on the machine you want, it's first come first serve. If I see three stacks of quarters on the washer and nobody waiting to put stuff in, consider yourself lucky I don't use your quarters.
@ihaveseenenough: I think I might be in love with you...
I don't like when people take too long but I wait for them unless they take obnoxiously long and am very resentful when they take my stuff out, but I don't make a deal out of it either way.
Hey, laundry SUCKS. There's no way around it. And once I work up the will to go ahead and do mine, chances are I've got five loads and the exact amount of time it'll take to do them to do them. No time for fucking about!
@EG- will you still love me when you find your soggy clothes on top of the dryer and mine spinning warmly inside? I think you will, because you're not a douchebag and therefore this situation will never happen.
Anyone who leaves their laundry for more than 20 minutes needs someone to jack their clothes to teach 'em a lesson.
I've been living in NYC for four years and still don't see the logic behind the "customers must wash here to dry here" mandate. WTF is up with that?
The logic is simple- if I wash my clothes there, I have to dry them there. If you wash your clothes at home, then come in and put them in the dryer, I can't put my clothes in the dryer until you're done.
If this happens, I'll get pissed off and maybe break something or yell, and not come back. That should be enough to make "wash here to dry here" a policy, but I suspect it has less to do with my feelings and more with the fact that the employees doing the dropped-off laundry don't want to have to deal with this.
I usually give stopped washers/dryers 5 minutes. If I didn't SEE it stop, I might open it to check and see if it's still warm/still wet.
How about the workers who do laundry for the clients who live amongst us--they hoard the machines--get a night job--it is nasty when people clog up the order for machine duty. Also the ones who do rugs and sleave shizzy stuff in them--you unknowingly put you clothes and and they come us fuzzed and trashed--they should pay monitary damages for that. NO RESPECT