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?

of course YABU.

www.cornwall-services.com/247-self-service-launderette-comes-to-cornwall-services/ Knew it! Amazing! Wish we had them at supermarkets though.

@Biancadelrioisback

Is it only in Scotland?

I can think of at least 4 sites with these in Staffordshire, so no.

YANBU to be frustrated at having to wait, but I don't think she did anything wrong, sorry.

I can see why you were annoyed.
What a good idea those are though!

What did you say to her when she started loading her stuff in as you were waiting?

Sorry if I’ve missed it in your posts (although I have read them!)

Maybe her 'glaring' is in response to your studied observation of her removal of items from the machine and she's paranoid you are judging her for her folding skills?

YABU. Frustrating for you but I don’t think she was a CF.

It’s 30 mins in a supermarket car park get a book or a magazine and a scone and enjoy this time. There was no guarantee that it would be free when you arrived so the time it was going to take was always a bit open ended.

Total dick move on her part. She was probably an older woman who lived on her own possibly with a cat or budgie for company whereas your washing was for your precious darling toddler. How very dare she.

There are no benches or any other sorting areas with these machine so she has to fold it as it comes out, it would be madness not to - they are so large everything comes out crease free so why would you shove it without thought into a bag.

@PatriciaPerch

Where Amuck? I might coincide a big wesh with visiting my Mother :o

Bentilee (on the garage site), Blythe Bridge (The old Co-Op), Stafford Service Station (the garage on Gaol Road) and Mill Street in Leek.

There are probably more than that!

You had to wait an hour instead of half an hour - good book and a coffee and some peace and quiet - I’d take that any day. And your stuff will still be dried in time for tonight surely?

Ok, so having seen the picture I think I agree with you OP. It's a single unit, so you have taken 'ownership' of the unit, by having your stuff in first. If it was a more conventional bank of washer/driers in a launderette I would have a different opinion.

Oh is it one of the revolution ones?

Sorry but she wasn’t to know you’d be using the dryer.

I washed my duvet and brought it home and dried it on two racks.

(I have a spare duvet)

@PatriciaPerch I don't know it too well to be fair, my cousin has just moved up to Stafford and the sat nav takes me that way. 😁

YABU

If you still had 2 minutes of your cycle to go you only had to wait 28 minutes whereas she would have had to wait 32 minutes

Yabu. She got there when it wasnt being used. She waits for you, she waits 32min. Yet she doesnt need to, because you arent using the dryer. It's just one of those things.

You’ve got a washer and dryer in your supermarket car park?!

Technically YABU but I'd be pissed off too.

From experience this thing dries my stuff in half an hour - it's a big industrial one. Fair enough. If I had turned up with a regular load to dry I wouldn't have known that, I would have thought thank goodness I got there first. Like if I had a basket and arrived at a checkout just before someone with a trolley.

I would say this is a bit annoying for you, but she did nothing wrong and it certainly isn't a "total fucking dick move". Nothing of the sort.