# Decemberrants: Yule post'em here, plz **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 1, 2013, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207 "2013-12-01T14:01:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 24
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/461 "2013-12-19T16:27:58Z")
No, he/she will probably get it back, just not in his/her hand. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/462 "2013-12-19T16:28:41Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > You wonā€™t get the wrench back, I betcha. Considering the manner in which they may recieve it, thatā€™ll probably be ok. ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/463 "2013-12-19T16:31:50Z")
Jeez laundry etiquette is a hassle. Who wants to sit guard duty on their clothes either. Its a case for those drop-off laundries but then you have to schlepp it all home in the snow. My sympathies. ---
**Author:** ![Runestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@Runestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runestar)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/464 "2013-12-19T16:43:56Z")
Stupid Weather Channel has hidden their nice, easy-to-use Interstate forecast page deep in the bowels of their web site. Finally found it by just Googling ā€œWeather channel interstate forecastā€. Looks like itā€™s going to be raining on us all weekend as we drive to the east coast for the holidays. Oh well; Iā€™ll take that over snow and ice. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/465 "2013-12-19T18:31:07Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Got home from the lovely dinner we had for my fatherā€™s (last Saturday) and nieceā€™s (yesterday) birthday celebration. I get into my apartment, unload everything and decide to walk down and check the mail. I walk past the laundry room on my way and there is no sound of any laundry bring done. I get my mail, slowly sort it out and toss it, dawdling to pay attention to the two dirtbags loudly arguing in the lobby, curious if it will erupt into a fight and Iā€™d need to call the cops. Then back up to the apartment. Still no laundry being done, I need to do a load, thereā€™s time, so what the heck. > > Go into my apartment, feed the cat, set aside two bills to pay, change my clothes, sort out the laundry (getting the idea this is taking more than 2 minutes?) and remember thereā€™s only like 20 cents on my laundry card. So I walk back down to the lobby, charge the card watching one of the two dirtbags argue with a third person who had showed up. Go back to apartment, grab laundry, detergent, etc and go to laundry room. > > Both washers are full, but done. Long done. Been at least 15-20 minutes since I got home and wasnā€™t going in that time. So I unload one of the machines and put my stuff in. Hey, I used to wait for people like this, but too many people would leave their shit overnight, or all day, so fuck 'em. If itā€™s been over 20 minutes, I pull your stuff and do mine. > > Walk in there 10 minutes later and that personā€™s stuff is in the dryer. > > Show up 35 minutes later to check on things, just to be sure. As I walk up, I hear someone opening the washing machine my stuff was in. Hurriedly steps away and comes out the door hauling all her clothing as I get closer. > > SuperBitch starts screaming at me about how her laundry wasnā€™t done for TWO MINUTES before I touched it. ā€œI have two small children\* and I donā€™t like people touching my clothes!ā€ I start to apologize, but say it had been at least 15-20 minutes. She screams over the top of me about how it was only TWO MINUTES!!! and how rude I am. :rolleyes: Starts walking away still yelling at me and telling me not to touch her clothes. > > Done. No more apologies. ā€œOk, at this point, you can go fuck yourself.ā€ > > Will be interesting if she complains to the office about me tomorrow. Iā€™ll tell them - ā€œI started to apologize, but she was a screaming bitch, so as far as I am concerned she can go fuck herself. Iā€™m sorry that you have to deal with this.ā€ > > Oh, and you know what? I occasionally space off my laundry too. Once or twice someone has pulled it out to do theirs. I admit Iā€™m not 100% comfortable with that, but figure itā€™s my own damned fault for losing track of the time and other people need to use the two washers and two dryers for 20 apartments on this floor/wing sometime too. > > - No idea what that has to do with anything. I wonā€™t defend it, but I can tell you what it means: she canā€™t leave her kids unattended and babysit her laundry; she canā€™t bring the kids down to the laundry room with her; and her kids canā€™t be counted on to time their misbehavior/neediness around Momā€™s need to chores in various parts of the apartment building.\* I wouldnā€™t worry too much about getting called on the carpet by building management. If she DOES complain, theyā€™ll probably point out that with only two machines, people have to choose between babysitting their laundry or risk having it touched. OTOH, from her apparently disproportionate response, perhaps the best thing to say to this woman-at-the-end-of-her-tether would have been a simple _Please forgive me for violating your boundaries. Iā€™ll try to be more patient in the future. Merry Christmas._ \*I have an alternate, but off-color, explanation for what it means, which Iā€™m not comfortable posting in public. Anyone who wants to know what it is can PM me. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/466 "2013-12-19T18:48:24Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > Iā€™m not normally very happy about having such a gender divide with kids toys (and Iā€™m specifically trying to avoid it for my cousinā€™s kid, as sheā€™s first granddaughter both sides, and sheā€™s got loads of girls stuff already), but I know a lot of people go with it. But I clearly didnā€™t want to buy something specifically gendered, and seriously, a fake cooking set, for a kid that tiny? Pisses me off. What the fuck! I agree, gender bullshit will be bad enough once they hit school age, believe me. What about some nice generic toys designed for either sex like [Young Explorer Toys](http://www.youngexplorers.com/) suggestions. I think the elephant with goodies inside looks like a blast, or the Splash Art set [uses water, great for not leaving paint everywhere.] > [@SerafinaPekala](#): > > Jeez laundry etiquette is a hassle. Who wants to sit guard duty on their clothes either. Its a case for those drop-off laundries but then you have to schlepp it all home in the snow. My sympathies. That is one of the main reasons I swore to myself we will never ever live anywhere without a washer dryer hookup. Hauling the king size comforter out for a wash is enough of a pain in the ass and we only do that twice a year [mainly if something spills and makes it through the duvet. I am considering getting a spray can or two of that new nanocoating that [waterproofs](http://www.neverwet.com/) anything.] ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/467 "2013-12-19T18:58:34Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > \ > Both washers are full, but done. Long done. Been at least 15-20 minutes since I got home and wasnā€™t going in that time. So I unload one of the machines and put my stuff in. Hey, I used to wait for people like this, but too many people would leave their shit overnight, or all day, so fuck 'em. If itā€™s been over 20 minutes, I pull your stuff and do mine.\ > > SuperBitch starts screaming at me about how her laundry wasnā€™t done for TWO MINUTES before I touched it. ā€œI have two small children\* and I donā€™t like people touching my clothes!ā€ I start to apologize, but say it had been at least 15-20 minutes. She screams over the top of me about how it was only TWO MINUTES!!! and how rude I am. :rolleyes: Starts walking away still yelling at me and telling me not to touch her clothes.\ SuperBitch needs to learn Laundry Room Etiquette - when your clothes are done, theyā€™re done - theyā€™re fair game to get taken out of a machine after the machine shuts off. The people who leave their laundry forever have created this etiquette - some people will leave their laundry for days on end, and you canā€™t know if the clothes owners will be back in two seconds or two days. If she doesnā€™t like people touching her clothes, she needs to live somewhere with her own private washer and dryer. > [@](#): > > - No idea what that has to do with anything. For some people, itā€™s their Get Out Of Jail Free card. SuperBitch sounds like one of these. > [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > At 10:00, the car in the driveway across the street set loose with its alarm. It went off for maybe a minute before it was shut off. > > At 11:30 it went off. > > At 2:30, it went off again. > > Then at 5:00. > > If it goes one ONCE tonight, Iā€™m going to walk over there, knock on their door, hand them a crescent wrench, and tell them to disconnect the fucking battery. Someone has parked a car beside our house (corner lot) and left it there for the last two weeks without moving it. As I was shovelling snow off the sidewalk there (and not being too careful about where I flung it), I discovered that they had parked their car right beside our house and left the car alarm on. The germane part here is that we can hear the alarm, but there is no chance that _they_ will hear the alarm. Iā€™m tempted to set it off every time we go out. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/468 "2013-12-19T19:09:50Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > SuperBitch needs to learn Laundry Room Etiquette - when your clothes are done, theyā€™re done - theyā€™re fair game to get taken out of a machine after the machine shuts off. The people who leave their laundry forever have created this etiquette - some people will leave their laundry for days on end, and you canā€™t know if the clothes owners will be back in two seconds or two days. I used to leave my basket on top of the machine in case I didnā€™t get back fast enough. Because yes, it is perfectly acceptable to take somebodyā€™s clothes out of the washer (or dryer) if theyā€™re not presentā€“it is a total douche move to throw them on the floor, however. I have never seen a laundry room without a folding table of some kind. Donā€™t be a jerk. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/469 "2013-12-19T19:39:03Z")
Heeeyy. I only did that once. There really was no table (though one showed up about a year ago), and it was six loads total. Way too much to try to work around piled up on four dryers. After all, I still needed a place to fold my stuff, too. They were the douches first! I really didnā€™t feel bad when it was all still there two days later. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/470 "2013-12-19T19:41:01Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > Heeeyy. I only did that once. There really was no table (though one showed up about a year ago), and it was six loads total. Way too much to try to work around piled up on four dryers. After all, I still needed a place to fold my stuff, too. They were the douches first! I really didnā€™t feel bad when it was all still there two days later. Iā€™d give you a pass for that. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/471 "2013-12-19T19:41:35Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > OTOH, from her apparently disproportionate response, perhaps the best thing to say to this woman-at-the-end-of-her-tether would have been a simple _Please forgive me for violating your boundaries. Iā€™ll try to be more patient in the future. Merry Christmas._ HAHAHAHAHAHAA!! Good one. šŸ˜› Very funny. Sooo not me. > [@Draelin](#): > > Because yes, it is perfectly acceptable to take somebodyā€™s clothes out of the washer (or dryer) if theyā€™re not present I put her clothing on top of the second washing machine, otherwise I usually put them on top of one of the dryers or the counter on the other side of the room. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/472 "2013-12-19T19:47:25Z")
Dear Armchair Constitutional Scholars of Facebook: the Duck Dynasty kerfuffle is not a First Amendment issue. Not one single legal penalty has accompanied the Duck Daddyā€™s intemperate statements to the press. A&E chooses not to associate its brand with those opinions, and that has fuck-all to do with the prohibition against Congress passing laws infringing speech. Please quit wrapping yourselves in the Constitution if you wonā€™t bother to read it. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/473 "2013-12-19T20:01:20Z")
Blessing / Curse: Went downstairs to do laundry. I have a small lake in the basement (curse). Last year I put emergency sewer cleaning onto my service plus plan through the gas company (blessing). Theyā€™ll be out sometime before 9pm tonight, effectively keeping me hostage at home all night (curse). Oh no, cannot do any more laundry until they come out (blessing). ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/474 "2013-12-19T20:03:14Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Done. No more apologies. ā€œOk, at this point, you can go fuck yourself.ā€ Totally stealing that line. Will probably be using it often. I can get behing the rant. I have trouble explaining to people that the quarters they put in do not rent the machine indefinately. Itā€™s only yours _while itā€™s running_. Once itā€™s done, you hve to put more money in it or you are trespassing, loitering, squatting, pick any term you like but get your stuff out of the machine or Iā€™ll do it for you and not very nicely! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/475 "2013-12-19T20:45:40Z")
Heh. Former co-worker who is a Rand Paul acolyte finally got into Firefly. String of comments on his FB post explaining how Fox screwed it over. I replied ā€œPlus it was on Fox to begin withā€. Dude gets angry because Iā€™m only attacking Fox because of my political beliefs. No, fuck for brains. Fox has a long and storied history of truly fucking over TV shows, especially scifi series. Their various methods of screwing over Firefly\* were not by any means an anomaly. My post was not political, it was fact. - Out of order, changing the schedule, pre-empting, etc. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/476 "2013-12-19T21:39:45Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > HAHAHAHAHAHAA!! > > Good one. šŸ˜› Very funny. > > Sooo not me. And so not a good idea, since sheā€™d just get even madder. ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/477 "2013-12-20T00:38:41Z")
Long, but good, laundry story: Lived in a big old split house, apartments on one side, rooming house on the other with a shared ā€˜laundryā€™ (coin-op washer and dryer in nasty old cellar) on rooming house side. Went to retrieve my laundry one evening about 9pm and saw one of the denizens of the rooming house side stuffing his monthā€™s worth of clothes into the dryer. As I left I noticed him pumping quarters into the machine. 3am. The very faint smell of something burning wakes me up. Wake up hubby and we start to investigate. We had access to the cellar on the apartment side of the building (the side with the furnace) so down we go. Burning smell is stronger and I can see a tendril of smoke wafting by. No fire to be seen though. Call the Fire Department. Boston City Fire Department. Who show up with four trucks and sirens and lights and lots of really big firemen with EQUIPMENT. ā€œWhereā€™s the fire?!?ā€ they say. I show them the smoke wafting by and it finally occurs to someone that thereā€™s another side to the cellar. They really really want to use some EQUIPMENT to break down the door but sadly, we had a key. In go the troops to discover that the packed solid dryer has shorted out and started rooming house dudeā€™s clothes on fire. Soggy singed clothes get carted out on the end of axes and long poking things by the firemen. The culmination of the night was the clothes scattered all over the dirt parking area, being hosed down with fire hoses and the firemen yelling, ā€œHey dude, got any detergent? Doinā€™ your laundry down hereā€. Rooming house dude never showed his face. The rest of the neighborhood had a good laugh though. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/478 "2013-12-20T01:29:04Z")
> [@slumtrimpet](#): > > The culmination of the night was the clothes scattered all over the dirt parking area, being hosed down with fire hoses and the firemen yelling, ā€œHey dude, got any detergent? Doinā€™ your laundry down hereā€. > > Rooming house dude never showed his face. The rest of the neighborhood had a good laugh though. I needed a good laugh and here one was, waiting for me. šŸ˜ƒ I love it. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/479 "2013-12-20T01:45:56Z")
Mmm. Firefighters. I once made an autoclave set off the smoke alarm at work. One of the best shifts ever. Those guys are HUGE. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207/480 "2013-12-20T01:52:12Z")
Tuesday, I let the nice young fireman go ahead of me in line at the gas station. Sure, I was all polite when I said that heā€™d probably had a long shift, and I was in no hurry, but really? I just wanted to ogle his butt! šŸ˜ƒ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decemberrants-yule-postem-here-plz/675207.md?page=25)