# Dear Impatient Laundry Room Jackass **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 27, 2002, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-impatient-laundry-room-jackass/111095 "2002-05-27T21:17:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-impatient-laundry-room-jackass/111095/61 "2002-05-30T16:35:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tlw \* > \*\*You have no right to demand that she move, whether she was being rude or not, and no right to use her clothing to force her to do so. \*\* I’m with **Sauron** on this one. I agree that **Blinking Duck** should not have responded to her rudeness with rudeness, but he (she?) could have asked her to move her folding to a table. If she was holding up the only available dryer in a public laundromat, then yes, **BD** was within his (her?) rights to ask Evil Slow-Folding Lady to move. She was being very selfish. If it was a public laundromat (not a college dorm or apartment laundry room), I bet an attendant would have made her move. When people are waiting to use the dryers, you get your stuff out and move elsewhere to fold. You don’t stand there folding it piece by piece. You get out of the way and let someone else use the machine. I hated using the laundomat. I think I’ll go down to the basement and kiss my own personal washer and dryer now. My dryer has a light inside. It’s just too cool. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-impatient-laundry-room-jackass/111095/62 "2002-05-30T18:17:34Z")
You’ve never heard the expression “That’s life in the big city. You can crawl into a real hurtbag”? Could have been a local saying. The Glad hurtbag. Has a nice ring to it. ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-impatient-laundry-room-jackass/111095/63 "2002-05-30T18:20:21Z")
I could have quoted our esteemed Governor by saying “…then put the big hurt on you”. ---
**Author:** ![Castaldi\_of\_the\_Mazzharat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@Castaldi\_of\_the\_Mazzharat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Castaldi_of_the_Mazzharat)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-impatient-laundry-room-jackass/111095/64 "2002-05-30T18:46:44Z")
I like my new washing machine. I’ve decided. It’s a tall rack with the dryer on top, which plugs into a standard electric socket. The washing machine rolls out of the bottom on wheels. You roll it up to the sink, hook it to the faucet (real easy), plug it in, turn on the sink, then do your thing! It’s pretty cool. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-impatient-laundry-room-jackass/111095/65 "2002-05-30T18:51:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dalovindj \* > \*\*Stealing or defacing someones clothes is unacceptable. Folding them, while kind, is a bit ridiculous. Unload em onto a counter or into a basket and fuck em. \*\* I don’t mind people moving my clothes, but I’d be pretty steamed if I caught someone _fucking_ them… 😃 Oh, just for the record: Another vote for “remove your clothes promptly or have them removed for you.” ---
**Author:** ![kirk280980](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@kirk280980](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirk280980)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-impatient-laundry-room-jackass/111095/66 "2002-05-30T23:57:16Z")
Back when I lived in a shared block, each tenant was given magnetic tags bearing their apartment number. Upon starting your washer or dryer, you would stick one of these tags onto the front of the machine. The reason for this was that, if you forgot to unload your laundry and someone else needed to use the machine, they could knock on your door and ask you to free it up for them. Worked very well, and there were never any disputes over folks hogging washers and dryers, or moving other people’s laundry. The landlord did enforce laundry room etiquette rather strictly. Moving other people’s clothes was forbidden. On the other side of the coin, once asked to free up a machine, you had to be down there within five minutes so the next person in line could load up. Pretty fair all round, in my opinion. If you didn’t play the game, you’d eventually get a call from the landlord telling you to do laundry in the sink in future. ---
**Author:** ![Tradnor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@Tradnor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tradnor)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-impatient-laundry-room-jackass/111095/67 "2002-06-02T20:38:47Z")
There’s also the issue of third parties. If I come to a machine that’s finished its cycle with clothes still inside, maybe I’m willing to wait ten minutes and see if the owner comes back. But then another person comes in and wants to use the machine as well, and he’s not as considerate as I am. I was there first so I have priority, but if I don’t put my clothes in, he’ll put in his. I can’t force him to follow the same rules of “politeness” that I do. If the laundry room is busy, this happens often enough that you eventually stop waiting for the third person to force the move and take out the clothes as soon as they’re done. You might as well save a few minutes if the end result to the first person is the same anyway. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-impatient-laundry-room-jackass/111095/68 "2002-06-02T21:15:28Z")
This thread is reminding me how much I hate doing laundry. I’m SO glad my boss is letting me use her laundry facilities while she’s on vacation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-impatient-laundry-room-jackass/111095.md?page=3)