To be pissed about holiday use of washing machine

[Jeannie88]

Very trivial compared to real issues.

We've been at a lodge in the Lakes for a few days and ready to do a wash of mucky kids' clothes, yes a privilege to be able to do this before we go home and our own washing machine going.

A family who turned up this morning put a load in and left it all day, we didn't get back til late aft and it was still there. I was happy to take it out and put ours on but DH said give it an hour. So we did then the CF went and put another load on, we just missed the time of it to do ours and just didn't expect this.

Currently watching, another 2 hours, to do ours. I mean, who turns up a cabin site to do all their washing? We washed, ironed etc so all clothes were ready and I had no intention of doing a wash but hey who would turn down ready to go home with clean clothes?

Lady in question has meanwhile put a third wash on. 3 hour cycles and dryer after. Surely one doesn't do this, a certain etiquette to give others a chance? Tomorrow I will be taking the wet clothes out if the same.

I've been petty and taken some washing powder so I can do ours tomorrow before she uses it all! Xx

so the ither family is basically doing what you are planning to do

tbh, I don't get it. enjoy the holiday and deal with the laundry once home.

If she's not seeing you there how does she know you're waiting? How do you know it's the same family? Can you leave a note

Exactly, all these people blaming the DH. OP has her own mind and went a long with it. She is the one with the hard on for holiday washing. If it matters so much to her - which it clearly does as she’s posted about on MN - she should have stopped fannying about and removed the finished washing and got on with it.

It’s definitely worth pointing out - i never see the point letting people be wrong. Last night I saw a video where someone kept saying what he’d “brought” in the supermarket. Someone commented saying “it’s bought” - and they were told by someone else in the comments “he can say whatever he wants!” I don’t understand that attitude! “Bought” and “brought” have two very different meanings.

I was at a NT place the other day and there was a sign saying bought when they meant brought. Someone had got there before me and added an r already. I was left to correct drank to drunk with the pen I was relieved to find in my bag for just such purposes.

My ex-SIL had a second washing machine because she didn't want her DH's work clothes using the same machine as her........ He's a bloody window cleaner!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

She needed help. Or some basic science lessons.

You could just have emptied the washer in a basket and done your load.
Talk about a non issue.

Gosh. I mean, if he worked as an asbestos removal contractor* or something, that would be one thing, but a window cleaner? Weird!

*Although, presumably they have carefully planned safe systems of work, probably involving lots of disposable coveralls and expensive specialist industrial cleaners for anything reusable...

Just leave a sticky note on the machine, saying you really-really need to do a wash because your children have been sick or something like that. The other family can't know you are waiting for the machine to be free, so that woman is just efficiently doing her whole laundry!

This

When I got back and saw the washing there I would have taken it out.

We washed, ironed etc so all clothes were ready and I had no intention of doing a wash but hey who would turn down ready to go home with clean clothes?

So do you actually need to do washing or not?

Yes I did, typo! X

Fortunately the third load was the last so all done. Just like so many other things, some people just don't consider others. Completely minor I know, was peeved at the time. Xx

I was going to leave a note along the lines of 'single loads only, think of other guests'. Lesson learnt, next time I empty it. Xx

You snooze, you lose.

I was going to leave a note along the lines of 'single loads only, think of other guests'

Would you do the same if a family were in a cafe, and decided to order some more food after their first order ? Or a group of friends in a pub who didn't vacate their table after the first round of drinks ? Or if a parent let a sibling go on the swing their one child had been on?

You are being ridiculous.
You had the chance to use the machine and chose not to take it. The onus isn't on anyone who wants to use the machine to wander round the site asking if anyone else might want to use it.

Yes, this is always how it worked in the Uni laundrettes
Honestly, I'd have pulled it out and not got worked up about it all

No I couldn’t be worked up about this, I would have just brought the clothes home.

Maybe they don’t have a washing machine at home, but you do, so non issue.

SpecialKate Americans say ‘pissed’ to mean ‘pissed off’ and so do lots of younger people in the UK as a result. It seems to be becoming the norm round here anyway.

At least the alcohol is taking the edge off

What a sad state of affairs.

Social media has a lot to answer for.

THIS

It is an abominable state of affairs
People, particularly anyone over 23, trying to be 'cool' using American phrases and spelling just look and sound ridiculous
Noos anyone? Or a mrrorr? Center?