To think this is a total fucking dick move?

[FairfaxAikman]

Toddler spilled juice on our bed, soaking the duvet and mattress protector.

Both too big for our washing machine so I popped it in the car and headed down to our local supermarket where there's a big automated washer and dryer in the car park.

Shove my stuff through the washer (it fills the 18kg drum completely) and as the timer counts down I'm getting ready to shove it in the dryer.

With the big neon timer showing just two bloody minutes of my wash cycle left, an arsehole of a woman swings her car into the spot next to mine and empties a tiny bag of washing (enough for a standard home tumble dryer or to put on a single aired) into the dryer, sets it to half an hour and waltzes off to the supermarket.

The dryer and washer are a single unit so there's no way she missed my timer showing only two minutes or the fact it was full of bulky bedding.

I have no other way of drying my duvet and mattress protector, which I need dried so I can sleep on tonight.

AIBU to think that was a total dick move on her part?

YABU. She's just as entitled to use it as you are. You weren't using it when she got there. Why should she wait so you don't have to? You're within your rights to ask her to wait until after you but she's well within her rights to explain to you that the world doesn't revolve around you.

She couldn't know you were going to use the dryer. And you could wait 30 mins

I’d be pissed off, but at the same time I don’t think she did anything wrong.

YABU. She got to it first.

I guess though her post could be

‘I went with my laundry (there’s no way of drying stuff in this damp flat!) with the hope of putting it through a quick dry cycle while I shopped. Thank god I got there before some woman over-filled it and took it up for hours! God only knows how long she’d have taken, Ive never in my life seen anyone manage to stuff that drum.’

I guess you had to wait half an hour, but she also would’ve had to wait for you. Why is one worse than the other?

Either you had to wait for 30 mins, or she would have had to.
You don't have any priority call for first dibs on the drier.

YABU, you weren't using it when she arrived. Also much easier for you to wait 30 minutes, yours would have taken much longer.

How could she use it if it was a single unit? Do you just mean that they were next to each other? I guess you'll just have to wait.

It may well be that the load she had would fit in a domestic dryer. That would suggest that she doesn't own one.

The dryer was available. She needed it. YABU.

She got there first? She probably doesnt have a tumble drier or maybe its broken

Just wait half an hour like you were expecting her to

Someone had to wait.

@kowari

YABU, you weren't using it when she arrived. Also much easier for you to wait 30 minutes, yours would have taken much longer.

From experience this thing dries my stuff in half an hour - it's a big industrial one.

YABU.

I think this is probably a lot of angst over a 30 min wait.

Why should she have waited to see if you were going to use the dryer?

Unreasonable OP.

Our launderette has a sign saying customers who use washers have first dibs on the dryers...

But would she not have had to wait for 30 minutes for you to finish?

It's frustrating for you but you don't have priority because you were using the washer

But if you were so outraged why didn't you just say something.?
If it was me I'd have politely asked if I could use it first as need it for tonight . If she said no fair enough but she may have not .
People aren't always aware of situations she may have not noticed it was 2 minutes to finishing .

if it dries your stuff in 1/2 hour what was the problem with you waitting op ?

Sorry I think YABU here, one of you had to wait for it, and today that was you.
Life sucks sometimes.

YABU. She was there first.

If you'd posted:

Toddler spilled juice on our bed, soaking the duvet and mattress protector.

and just left it at that, you'd have all of MN agreeing with you that it was indeed a dick move

The dryer was not in use when she arrived so she used it. You are now next in the queue.

I thought you Brits were all about queue courtesy and protocol.

Ok now she's being bloody deliberate- taking each item out individually and folding it whilst glaring at me.