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?

@FairfaxAikman

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

What would you expect her to do? Tip it all out onto the floor. She probably wondering why you are being so wierd and aggressive

@FairfaxAikman

To be clear I don't think she's a CF but I do think it's a dock move - in the same way i'd consider it a dick move to have a massive trolley full of shopping at the checkout and not let the person with their single carton of milk go ahead of you. It's nice to be considerate and all that.

But it’s the other way around! You have the massive trolley [washer] full of shopping [bedding] and she has the carton of milk [tiny load]. So by your logic, it would have been a dick move on your behalf to not let her go first.

I've certainly been in laundrettes that have signs that customers using the washing machines have priority to use the driers, over people wanting to use the driers only.

A dick move?

Christ, what has happened to this place?

On another note though, I have never heard of these industrial washer/dryers at supermarkets, sounds interesting!

@Cam77

Another scorching hot day rises in an Asda reserve at the heart of the European continent, and the inhabitants are, as ever, fiercely protective of their territory. One female is just getting ready to dry off her bedding at a local sunning spot, preparing for encroaching winter, when another more aggressive female approaches. Despite the menacing glares thrown her way, the new female moves swiftly, blocking the others way, and marks the territory decisively for herself. The beaten female is forced to retreat back to the outskirts of the carpark. There will be no dry bedding for her today.

you just won the Internet. I could hear DA saying it.

@TwistAndTout

If it happened to all these people saying YABU, I’m sure they would have been annoyed too

Oh I'd have been annoyed. But OP didn't ask if she's BU to be annoyed. She asked if the other woman was a dick. The two are separate things. I'd have been annoyed but I don't think the other woman did anything wrong. The dryer was empty, she used it. To me, that's fair.

Actually I asked if it was a dick move.

Who drinks Irn Bru in bed?!

Daddy left an open tin of Irn bru on his bedside table.

Daddy? I think you mean your DP/DH. Referring to your partner as Daddy/Mummy is nauseous. YABU.

YANBU. I was told years ago when using a launderette (in England) for the first time that the etiquette is the person using the washing machine takes priority over someone coming in just to use a dryer. It was Laundry Law (might have made the last bit up).

Yabu..first come first served

I'm in Ireland and have seen many of these in various petrol stations and some supermarkets.

@JonHammIsMyJamm

Who drinks Irn Bru in bed?!

He put it down while looking something out of a drawer. He failed to appreciate how fast moving our DS is all of a sudden!

@MrsTerryPratchett

There's also a local farmers vending machine thingy, with sections for carrots, potatoes and eggs and the like

That is fucking awesome.

The Scots have all the luck it seems (envy)

So there is a giant washer and dryer.... In the car park of a supermarket? I'm trying to visualise this?!

I have always understood that people using washing machines have priority over people just wanting to dry. I used to use a laundrette regularly and there were signs everywhere and they insisted you speak to the assistant before just drying.

So actually I would say it was a dick move, and YANBU, she wouldnt have got away with that round here!

YABU

one word "spares"

@SeasonFinale

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

Let's not forget, these are Washing Machine Minutes. If she'd waited, she could've still been there at midnight.

I don't think you're being unreasonable OP. I would have asked if you were using it, and if you were I would have gone off to do my shopping and come back to put it on later and yes I would have been inconvenienced but I still think you would have had priority as you were clearly using the device (and yes I would have considered the two items as one device. Who just washes bulky items and doesn't dry them? )

There is another thread running at the moment about how ‘entitled’ MNers are. This couldn’t be better timed to prove a case in point.

Well I've learnt something new today and that there is one a couple of miles from me and I'm.in Hampshire.

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@sst1234

There is another thread running at the moment about how ‘entitled’ MNers are. This couldn’t be better timed to prove a case in point.

If I was entitled I would have kicked off or taken her stuff out of the machine and dumped it on the ground.

I'm allowed to think it's inconsiderate without expecting everything to be about me.

I am in the East Mids and there is one a couple of miles from me too! Never knew this!

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

You snooze, you lose. It’s not her fault you were slower than her

@KnightsofColumbusThatHurt
I’ve posted this again for you

And who the hell has a spare king sized feather duvet "just in case"?
I have a 4.5 tog and a 7 tog quilt so if I had to wash my 7 tog in winter I would use the 4.5 tog one and a blanket. Depending on the cost (£2 for how long?) I'd likely just take washing home to dry, I don't think you can assume someone will want to use the dryer.