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?

I was thinking you were lucky getting your stuff into the washer without someone else being ahead of you.
Your luck ran out when the other woman arrived before the washer cycle had completely finished.

@Tonightstheteriyakichicken

I was thinking you were lucky getting your stuff into the washer without someone else being ahead of you. Your luck ran out when the other woman arrived before the washer cycle had completely finished.

There was a woman before me but her wash cycle only had about 10 mins left. She then dried her duvet while I washed mine. A 38 min wash cycle v a 30 min dry one meant she finished just before me, allowing the other woman to nip in. She even said she should have just left her duvet in until I was ready to put mine in.

@Hopoindown31

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.

This.

not unreasonable of her, get over it

Oooooooh - I made the top spot on the daily email! 😁

Totally over it now. Was pissed off at the time and I still think it's a dick move but I'm not so "mental" that my life revolves round it or I'm going to rip the head off kittens or anything.

I've never heard of a washer and dryer being in a car park. Is it out in the open or in a small unit/ cabin?

YABU. total out of order on this one. Yes it was annoying but not everyone has washer and dryers at home so maybe this could be why she was using it. As annoying at it was you don’t have any more right to use something that is available to the public then anyone else. Maybe she was on a tight schedule you don’t know. But your in your right to be annoyed but nothing you can do about it

Yabu. Annoying as it is she did get to the dryer first.

Technically you're only waiting 28 minutes seeing as your wash wasn't even finished. And not everyone has a dryer or space for an airer. YABU

Wish we had one of these, although no way could u leave in dryer and pop to shop, someone would steal your washing!

@LoisLane66

I've never heard of a washer and dryer being in a car park. Is it out in the open or in a small unit/ cabin?

The one at my Morrison’s is out in the open but only about 10/15 ft from the building.

There's no such thing as a "Scottish accent" in the same way as there's no such thing as a British accent.

If you are trying to say that no-one in Britain or Scotland has an accent of any kind, you are using words correctly, to make a factually incorrect statement.

I suspect what's going on is that you don't know how the word "a" works. If there are (for example) 100 different Scottish accents, then there is such a thing as "a Scottish accent". Any one of the 100 is "a Scottish accent."

Personally I would have taken it home and stuck it on an airer to dry. They don't take long.

I have seen machines exactly like this at a caravan site in Wales. (Never seen them anywhere else though).

The washers and dryers I mean, not the food ones.At least it sounds like the woman came back quite quickly, my concern would be that someone going in a supermarket could be a lot longer.

She wouldn't have known you were going to use the dryer.

@nighttrains I think you mean, 'Arrr, ye nailed it!'

In other news there are people dying of a virus in this country of which there is no cure? I’m sure you can take your washing home and hang it up to dry at home, that is what I have done for years, yes, including bed linen. Do you only have one set of bed linen? Or wait your turn for a dryer like the rest of us would or do what I have just done get a washer/dryer after waiting for 15 years for one! 🙄

I've never heard of a supermarket having a washer and dryer in its car park!

I think everyone is being too harsh and missing the point here. OP, I’m with you.

@Biancadelrioisback

Is it only in Scotland?

We're not far from Leeds and we have one at our local Morrison's.

@FelicityPike

Our vendy does fresh farm milk, eggs, vegetables, homemade soups and cakes! Deliciousness 24/7.

Wow, I thought our local milk vending machine was enlightened. Other foods would be awesome. Our milk vendy is optional bring your own bottle or buy an empty one from one machine and fill it from the other. We have a drinks vending machine at work that sells bottles of overpriced soft drinks and bottled water heated to around 45°c

YABU.

She had no idea what was in your machine and you weren't actually using the drier when she arrived, there's no reason why your wants or needs are more important than hers and I dare say she didn't even look at the timer on your machine.... why would she?

She got there before you and you're pissed off, that doesn't make her in any way wrong.

Your entitled attitude needs work.

@Teddybear27

In other news there are people dying of a virus in this country of which there is no cure? I’m sure you can take your washing home and hang it up to dry at home, that is what I have done for years, yes, including bed linen. Do you only have one set of bed linen? Or wait your turn for a dryer like the rest of us would or do what I have just done get a washer/dryer after waiting for 15 years for one! 🙄

The OP couldn’t launder her stuff at home because it is too bulky to fit in a domestic machine. It wasn’t bed linen it was the inside, the actual duvet itself. Perhaps you could read the OP before coming onto her thread with your snark?

[quote JesusInTheCabbageVan]@nighttrains I think you mean, 'Arrr, ye nailed it!' [/quote]
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