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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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whatsthefuckingwrongwithyou · 22/05/2017 22:35

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.

I was astonished by this too. Talk about misdirected effort - why not just pick up your clothes in the first place?!!

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allthingslipsticks · 22/05/2017 22:37

YANBU. It's their responsibility to collect their clothes in a timely manner, especially given the ratio of people to washers and dryers. The person who wrote you that note obviously has all the time in the world and doesn't have much consideration towards other. Selfish bugger!

EmpressoftheMundane · 22/05/2017 22:38

YANBU

It's incredibly rude to hog communal resources when the machine is finished.

IheartDodo · 22/05/2017 22:38

I think a passive aggressive sign about removing your clothes in a timely manner is needed!

OnceMoreIntoTheBleach · 22/05/2017 22:40

Oh I'm so going to use that phrase tomorrow. Even if only audible to me in my car on the journey to work Grin

Yanbu

stillcoolhonest · 22/05/2017 22:45

I am loving "What's the fucking wrong with you" and will use it at my earliest convenience!

YWNBU. I used to live in a block of flats with communal washer/dryer (1 of each between 10 flats) - we would all leave our laundry baskets by the dryer, if someone came down wanting to use the dryer and yours was done, you'd expect it to be piled into your basket so the other person could use the dryer. Unspoken agreement, we pretty much never spoke to each other in the block but we were NORMAL ADULT HUMANS

TondelayaDellaVentamiglia · 22/05/2017 22:46

just write that in your return note, complete with a PA smiley

If only you had come down in time to get your laundry that was BLOCKING the dryer then you could have saved yourself the bother of leaving your ridiculous note.

PS did you mean...?

A) what's the fucking matter with you
B) what's fucking wrong with you

FYI Nothing

:) :) :) :) :) :)

RandomlyGenerated · 22/05/2017 22:52

I would leave the note in the laundry room with a Red Sock of Doom pinned to it as a warning. And a smiley face.

StrawberrySquash · 22/05/2017 22:59

Honestly! It's common sense that you take the finished washing out. Long as you put it somewhere sensible and clean. I generally shoved it in a carrier bag as a student.

hibbledobble · 22/05/2017 23:02

They are bu, simply for their poor grammar.

I would correct their note with a red pen.

NapQueen · 22/05/2017 23:03

And surely it should be ? at the end rather than !

Ellapaella · 22/05/2017 23:06

'To the person who left their washing sitting in a machine for hours so no-one else could use it - What's the fucking wrong with you!'

There. Silly twat, take no notice and get on with your day. YANBU.

HeartsTrumpDiamonds · 22/05/2017 23:27

YANBU. In our communal laundry area there was even a designated proper space to put other people's laundry if you needed to move it.

That note leaver is a wanker.

Teardropexplodes · 22/05/2017 23:28

When I lived in a similar set up, you left your laundry basket in front of the machine, then of the next person wanted to use it, they put your washing in your basket and carried on.

LondonNicki · 22/05/2017 23:33

Of course you were right to remove them. You needed the machine. How rude of them to write that note.

CrowLeftOfTheMurder · 22/05/2017 23:34

Where I live we have dryers. People leave their bags/baskets and if the machine is finished we just take the drying out, fold it and put it in the bag that's been left to put our own in. We've even had thank you notes left for it. Sometimes people even leave their drying in a 'queue' with coins for the machine, you put the next persons drying in after yours... Never any problems

Jux · 22/05/2017 23:55

I can easily see why people leave their clothes in the dryer. Next time, fold them nicely and put them in a clean bag. She'll have far less to be upset about.

TheMysteriousJackelope · 22/05/2017 23:56

Put the note back on the dryer with the grammar and spelling corrected, a link to this thread, and tell them that you are submitting it to 'passiveagressivenotes.com' (which also posts aggressive notes) for people to laugh at. That should teach them.

Also say you will definitely throw their clothes around next time and listen for the sound of heads exploding.

Just make sure they don't know who you are or where you live.

TheMysteriousJackelope · 22/05/2017 23:58

Jux If the person kept a better eye on the dryer the OP wouldn't have spend 10 minutes folding their clothes - like anyone wants their knickers folded by a complete stranger anyway. Threatening to throw them over the room is a much better approach. They'll either hover by the dryer in future or take themselves off to a launderette.

ClopySow · 23/05/2017 00:11

I live in a building with a shared laundry. I fold peoples laundry up in the baskets that they'vd left in case this happens.

There's a total fucker that uses 2 machines at once with about 3 items in each. What's the fucking wrong with them?

MissPickles · 23/05/2017 00:23

YDWBU op, I did this many times when I was in student halls. 4 tumble dryers and three washing machines for 300 people and they just leave it... Sod off, I have things to do. It's just rude.

melj1213 · 23/05/2017 02:14

YANBU - I only ever had shared laundry when I was in Uni halls, but even the 300 ish 18/19 year olds in my complex, who all shared the same 5 washers and dryers, worked out that if you left your stuff in a machine it was fair game to be moved.

Most people would give you a few minutes grace, in case you were on your way down to the laundry room, before they took your stuff out of the machines but everyone understood the unwritten rule of "if you leave your stuff unattended and the cycle finishes and there are no other machines free, the person waiting has every right to remove the abandoned clothes in order to use the machines."

Also as there was an actual written rule (and posters in the laundry room) saying you weren't to leave laundry unattended, if someone left a shitty note then if the recipient of the note took it to the Hall Manager, the one getting in trouble would be the note sender as they had been the one to leave their stuff unattended.

SomewhatIdiosyncratic · 23/05/2017 07:38

Ah yes, the days of halls with 8 washers and dryers between 720 people. Yes, moving unattended laundry was acceptable.

I got around it by doing my laundry on union night when most people were out Halo Grin

Kokusai · 23/05/2017 07:42

Totally acceptable to move someone's washing from a machine that has finished. You should leave your washing basket at the base of the machine if you're worried it will ge dumped somewhere dirty.

TheWitchAndTrevor · 23/05/2017 09:15

You need to put a sign up saying.

If you don't want your washing handled by someone else.

Then remove your washing when the cycle ends.

Stop being selfish by leaving it in and blocking other people from getting on with their day.