Years ago a friend of mine put his laundry in the washer and completely forgot about it. Eight hours later he returned to the laundry room to find that his clothes had been washed, dried, and neatly folded.
That’s a once-in-a-lifetime for ya.
That’s totally wrong.
In any event, lots of good points made here and I do realize that if I don’t want people moving my laundry, then I need to make sure I’m there at the end of the cycle and can’t assume others give a grace period. Fair enough…
If I take someone’s stuff out of the dryer, and it’s jeans, t-shirts, towels, etc., I always fold it. Someone else’s unmentionables get put on the table.
I’ll sometimes fold them for someone whose dryer-laundry I’ve evicted to make use of the dryer, if only because, unfolded, they take up too much room on the table. And I’ll put unclaimed washer-loads into empty dryers to make use of the washing machine.
But I’ll be damned if I’m going to feed quarters into the machine for someone else’s laundry!
Tough stuff sister. Set the timer and then set an inexpensive personal timer so you can hi thyself back prior to completion of the machine cyle and remove your dainties your self.
If the machine is through and someone is waiting on a machine they can remove the contents and proceed with their own laundry.
How long are you going to wait before unloading the machine and doing our own??
Did you even read their most recent post to the thread? :rolleyes:
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Thanks, zweisamkeit. 
The reason I started the thread was to find out whether most people observe a grace period or not. I do, because I assume people prefer to handle their laundry themselves and that they’ll be along in a few minutes to deal with it–I give them 10 minutes and then move their laundry. Most of you disagree. As I said, fair enough, and in the future I won’t give the strange guy a reason to handle my laundry.