ARGH! Rudeness!

Ugh. So in my apartment complex we have washers downstairs in a room; about 7 washers and 7 dryers, perhaps 8.

I'm really annoyed at the moment, because I went down at 7:40 am this morning to put in a load (yes, I was up that early. I often / generally am on a weekend) to put in ONE SMALL LOAD and some JACKASS has taken up ALL THE WASHERS.

YES. *** ALL *** of them.

How do I know they have? Because the timer on the front of each machine is within a minute or of each other; 22, 23, 22, 22, 23 and so on.

The whole reason I went down early was to catch the washers before this clod (okay, so it could be more than one...) commandeered the entire laundry room for his/her own personal use. Afterall -- nobody else wants to do laundry on the weekend, of course.

One day, I looked in a washer of such a happening and each one was filled with about 5 things. For crap's sake. What a waste of 75 cents and water. Sure, I believe in separating colors and whites, but this person had 5 colors in one, then about 5 more colored items in the next one, then a about the same amount of whites in the next -- and so on.

It really BLEEEP-ing annoys me -- nay, pisses me the &$@# off -- that someone would be that clueless and lack that kind of common sense.

Yes. I get that laundry is annoying. Yes, I get that you want to get it all done as quickly as possible. But that's why you do it more often, perhaps, rather than once a week and thus putting AN ENTIRE 3-FLOOR BUILDING OF ABOUT 150 OR MORE UNITS ON HOLD.

Ugh. So I came up and lodged a complaint to the management.

Again.

I've complained about this before -- it seems like they could put a 3 unit limit on someone.

Because here's the thing: whoever does this then takes up ALL THE DRYERS, TOO.

Once I hung around for a bit of time as they timed out (like for about 10 minutes) to -- POLITELY -- say something to the clod --

Er, ahem -- neighbor --

-- but they never showed up in that timeframe. So not only were they hogging the washers and dryers (a dry cycle is 60-80 minutes long), they continued to hog it after it was over.

Sure. I've left a load in longer than just the 35 minutes for a wash or the 60 minutes for a wash for a variety of reasons (I've forgotten, I've gotten sidetracked, I've left to do an errand for the hour and it took longer, etc.) but It's only been one *MAYBE* two loads.

It never ceases to amaze me at how clueless people are that there might possibly maybe perhaps be other people that exist outside of their own little world.

*SIGHGROAN*

GRRRR....growl (muttermuttermuttermuttermutter)

Anyway. Enough on that. It's probably a good thing I've never run into this clod (SORRY SORRY, NEIGHBOR!)...otherwise they might find themselves with a laundry basket-shaped belly after I stuffed it down their neck. :)

But I'd do it with all the grace and politeness I was raised to have when dealing with people. I wouldn't be the least bit rude about it. Not at all. I'd simply be giving them a hands-on definition -- a...visual, if you will -- of "Go stuff yourself."

..............At least it's a pretty day outside! :)

-- H