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?

You were using the washer. She is not psychic, TBH I wouldn't be waiting around if the drier was available 2 minutes or not.

There's one at Fenton in Stoke on Trent. My son has just started at uni and I was impressed to see this (although I very much doubt he'll ever use it).

@JamminDoughnuts

first comefirst serve but i guess she could have asked why didnt you say something?

But WHY should she ask some random if she can use a dryer that's there for public use? It was empty

Does anyone else read everyone's posts in that person's accent (if known)?
OP I read all of your posts Inna Scottish accent and now I'm stuck thinking in one

OP, your obviously being unreasonable but I'm unreasonable too

I would be secretly raging. The same as when I pop to the shop and someone drives straight into my parking space that I've just vacated outside my house...it makes me so angry even though they're perfectly entitled to use 'my' parking space as it's on a public road.

I think we have to be unreasonable about these things in secret

@Biancadelrioisback

Does anyone else read everyone's posts in that person's accent (if known)? OP I read all of your posts Inna Scottish accent and now I'm stuck thinking in one

And I'm picturing @nighttrains as a salty old sea cap'n with a pipe in the corner of his mouth after this:

And who the hell has a spare king sized feather duvet "just in case"?

(nighttrains) A fool with more money than sense

@LoseLooseLucy

If I’d gone to use it and noticed someone had only 2 minutes remaining in their wash I definitely would have asked them if they planned to use the dryer before bunging my things in to be fair.

Why?

Why would you do that? It's free, why can't you just use it? One if you had to wait, why would you feel it has to be you?

@Funnyface1

It's a total dick move. I'm not buying that all these mumsnetters would be totally fine with it.

I'd be a bit annoyed at having to wait, but I wouldn't think it was 'a dick move'. Someone else also wanted to use something that's there to be used by everyone/anyone- it's not reserved for me.

All's fair in love and washing.

I can't believe I have got to the bottom of the thread and nobody's asked why it wasn't Daddy freezing his arse off in a supermarket car park while throwing dirty looks at dick-move laundry-doers.

But perhaps we still haven't got all the information to answer a completely different AIBU to the one you asked Who was supervising Toddler when he went for the juice?

@SecondRow DH can't drive.

Does everyone on here have to justify why they are doing something instead of their DH?

Ooh, and, SpongeBobJudgeyPants, but what if a modest 8kg wash and a mahoosive 18kg wash are both due to finish within 2 minutes... what then? Who has dibs on the dryer?

Yes. Yes they do, Bianca. Just like they have to justify their personal laundry etiquette or only having one duvet! Them's the breaks.

Well, I want one of these washing stations near me! They look fab!

Well this has blown my tiny mind. I’ve never even heard of washing machines and tumble dryers in supermarket car parks... I feel like my local supermarkets just aren’t TRYING.

What else can you get in a supermarket car park these days??? Clean answers only please

Hang on, is no one else concerned about a vending machine that sells eggs? Surely a disaster waiting to happen!

Touché SecondRow

@Biancadelrioisback

Also useful to have spares incase you have guests! Otherwise what do they sleep under?

Easier still.... dont have overnight guests!

@crabbiesoriginal

When I bought mine I didnt care about anything other than weight, the heavier the better, which seemed to be cheaper (presumably poorer quality feathers?)!

I have nothing to add to this thread but I’m so bloody jealous of this laundromat and farm vending in a supermarket car park.

I agree that the farm shop vending machine is fucking GENIUS and there should be a hell of a lot more of them!

I mean... it’s annoying, but not ‘post on MN’ annoying. One of those where you’d be secretly raging but can’t really say anything out loud.

That washer picture must be the single most shared image on one thread I would love one of those washers near me.

I would have asked you if you were going to use the drier.

Technically she was NBU but I do think she quite enjoyed getting in there before you. Next time could you hover or out a decoy garment in if you've only got a couple of minutes to go?

of course you are BU, why do you think you get priority? it’s not like she set it to run for 8 hours and even if she had, she got there first