Laundry Day
Posted by Ryan Woods
There are names for people like the woman who lives three doors down. I won't mention them, but there are very good descriptive names.
You see, our dryer broke and won't be fixed until Tuesday. In the meantime we are using the dryer on our floor. There are only seven apartments on our level and one washer and dryer, so it's not that big of a deal. And I'm pretty sure that of those seven apartments, only five of them wash their clothes. Anyway, we put a load in the public dryer and dried it. But before our seventy-five cents were used up I went and checked it. It seemed to be dry so I thought I'd be economical and put another load in to finish of our three quarters. As one might assume, however, that load only got partially dry before our money ran out. So instead of just shoving in some more dough I decided to wash another load that I would then put in with the semi-dry clothes in the dryer. Cool. Sounds good...or does it?
When I come back in one hour later to add my wet clothes to my semi wet clothes (that had been sitting in the dryer all this time) I found that a neighbor girl down the hall was washing her clothes. The cycle had just started on the washing machine with her very first load, but not knowing that my clothes were in the dryer, she placed her seventy-five cents in the little slots in preparation for drying her washed load. I though for a moment and then decided that I would just neatly stack the quarters on top of the dryer while I finished my load. There might be some misunderstanding, but we could clarify it later. No big deal I thought...I thought wrong. When I went back in the laundry room an hour later (I kinda forgot about it), I found my two loads of clothes missing! Upon further inspection I found them whooshing around in the washing machine! That woman took my clothes out of the dryer, used a quarter and then put them all in the washing machine and started it! How vindictive is that? I could understand that if you were a mean person you might take those clothes out of the dryer, throw them on the counter, dry your clothes by finishing off the quarters that they had paid for their load, all the while pocketing the money that you were going to pay for your drying...but putting their clothes in the washing machine! Thats a jerk of a thing to do.
I haven't seen her yet, but I'm going to heap burning coles on her head. Kill 'er with kindness, thats what I'm going to do...and then when she's not looking I'm going to put bleach in the washing machine.
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