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Are they BU? Shitty note taped onto dryer in communal laundry.

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whatsthefuckingwrongwithyou · 22/05/2017 21:41

I live in accommodation with communal laundry. There are only 4 dryers and 5 washers for hundreds of flats (not sure exactly how many but I live at 396).

Tonight, three dryers were sat idle for >30mins. So I snapped and pulled some laundry out and put it on the surface nearby, then loaded my wet stuff up.

I came back to find this charming note taped to it: imgur.com/xmyWg5F

Who is BU?

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BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 22/05/2017 22:02

Most communal laundries have plastic hampers for unloading.
Does yours?

FormerlyFrikadela01 · 22/05/2017 22:04

Yanbu at all.
When I lived in halls there were baskets along the top of all the washers and dryers for this exact purpose. There were also signs instructing people to place finished washing in the baskets if they wanted to use the machine.

happypoobum · 22/05/2017 22:04

YANBU

They are lucky they don't live with my DD, she goes ape when people don't manage to empty their driers the nano second the cycle finishes, and is always waiting to pounce in her communal laundry. It's common practice to empty machines.

The note is comedy gold though Grin

Sukitakeitoff · 22/05/2017 22:04

At a communal laundry I would always leave my basket / bag on top of the machine so that if it finished when I wasn't there someone else could empty it. YADNBU

BonjourMeDarlin · 22/05/2017 22:06

Rip the note into tiny prices and leave it in the washing machine next time s/he leaves clothes in there.
The pink bits will be a bugger to get off.

Gunpowder · 22/05/2017 22:07

That's a v aggro pink post-it. Is that a little picture of a poo they've drawn? Shock

jarhead123 · 22/05/2017 22:07

They should have left there basket on top of the machine, so you could pop them in there to use it.

YANBU

RandomUsernameHere · 22/05/2017 22:08

YANBU at all. How ridiculous that they reacted like that when all you did was move their clothes. Plus, their note doesn't make any sense!

Salmotrutta · 22/05/2017 22:11

Maybe they didn't know how to spell "matter"?

maggienolia · 22/05/2017 22:11

Try using the communal machines in sheltered housing complexes.
Five minutes over your strictly allocated time and the four pensioners of the apocalypse will descend on you and run you over with their scooters.

RedStripeIassie · 22/05/2017 22:16

Shit, someone's got anger issues!! The note is funny and YANBU.

SleightOfHand · 22/05/2017 22:18

When I clicked your link it was a load of random pictures, no note Confused

thenightsky · 22/05/2017 22:19

Sheltered Housing communal laundries are awful. It took me fecking hours to get my mum's bedding washed and dried when she was ill. Every single time I went down to check the machine (like every 10 mins) some bastard had taken it out, still wet, and dumped it on the top of the machine.

Ameliablue · 22/05/2017 22:19

When using communal machines at uni, it was standard to give a person maybe ten minutes but if still not emptied remove clothes and leave on top or in their bag that they'd left at the machine.

Goldfishjane · 22/05/2017 22:22

I don't see a note, just photos
But YANBU

Original poster
whatsthefuckingwrongwithyou · 22/05/2017 22:24

Sorry, trying to post it ..

Are they BU? Shitty note taped onto dryer in communal laundry.
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Flyinggeese · 22/05/2017 22:25

I can't see the note, the link goes to a website.

Anyway, YANBU. What you did is standard laundrette ettiquette.

Flyinggeese · 22/05/2017 22:27

Funny note though. 'What's the fucking wrong with you?' Absolutely brilliant.

CrochetBelle · 22/05/2017 22:29

YABU.
Didn't you fold them?

YouWhatMate · 22/05/2017 22:30

Do you think they meant what's the fucking matter with you but got confused half way through

I was thinking the same thing Grin

They were so enraged that they forgot what they were writing halfway through the [very short] sentence.

HemanOrSheRa · 22/05/2017 22:31

Hahaha! Yes to the laundries in sheltered housing. I have separated people squaring up to one another with their fists raised Grin.

HappyAxolotl · 22/05/2017 22:32

YANBU! I'm a long-term housesharer and Thou Shalt Not Hog The Washer is part of the whole unwritten law of sharing.

I do leave my bag in front of the washer so if anyone else is in a real rush they can open the washer door and scoop my laundry into it, and I do let people know if I'm popping out and not likely to be back before the wash finishes, but some others will happily put a wash on in the evening and leave it in the machine until next afternoon. Yes, these are the same ones that will kick up a fuss about someone moving their laundry, but I'm past caring. There are 9 other people to share that machine and you can't have one hogging it for nearly a whole day.

BaggyCheeks · 22/05/2017 22:33

YANBU. It was the same in halls at uni - set a timer for the 40 minutes the washer took, go back and put your clothes in a drier, repeat. If it was a weekend day and you didn't do this you had no one to blame but yourself if your stuff ended up on the Abandoned Clothes table.

What makes it for me is knowing that either A) They take post-its and a pen to do their laundry or B) They actually took their clean laundry back to their flat and then went back to the laundry room with their arsey note.

Top quality passive aggression on their part.

UnicornSparkles1 · 22/05/2017 22:34

That note is hilarious. Correct the appalling grammar and put it back where you found it.

YANBU.

SaucyJack · 22/05/2017 22:35

Shepee into the washing powder drawer. Fight fire with fire.