Laundry Day

On our floor we have three pairs of washer/dryers.  It is nice, but when you need to do laundry you have to keep checking to see when you can get your stuff in.  And even when a machine says it's ready for your clothes you can open it up and there will be someone else's clothes in there.

That is when you face a problem.  "Do I move their clothes?"  "Do I wait for them?"  "What if they take forever to move their stuff?"  "If I move it do I put it on top or put it in a dryer?"  Well. Today was laundry day.  And I had to ask myself those questions.

I went back and forth a couple of times to see when a washer was free and then finally it was.  Then I go back to my room and a haul my stuff to the washer room and I open it up to see that that there are clothes in it.  Well, I don't want to wait for a bit to find out that they moved their clothes and someone else took the washer.  So I take action.  I see that a dryer is done so I open it up and see... that there are clothes in it.  BUT there is a small basket next to this dryer.  The question asked is, "Is this basket corresponding with the clothes in this dryer or is it just a random basket?" So I take the leap and I grap the clothes and put them in the basket.  Mind you, they were clothes of a more... they were on the "whites" cycle.  So I had to handle someone's unmentionables.  So I was already too far into this to go back.

Now, I take the person's clothes that were in the washer into the dryer that I just emptied.  BUT NOW I had to think about whether I should start the dryer or not.  BECAUSE I didn't know if I could ruin anything or not.  So I stood there for a bit and decided that I wouldn't. Then I finally put my clothes in the washer and started 'er up.

I went back into my room, walked around, and decided that I needed to leave a note for the person whose clothes I took out of the washer and put into the dryer but did not start the dryer for.  SO I took my roommate with me and we went back to the washer room.

In this washer room there's a little white board but no marker.  So we went out into the hallway and borrowed a marker.  I thought about it for a little bit and decided that I didn't want to use the board because nobody really looks at the board.  So I wrote a note on the washer.

"Dear person in this washer before me,
I moved your clothes into dryer #1, but I didn't start it.  Sorry.  I didn't want to ruin anything.
I hope this erases.  It should.
Love,
I'm not putting my name, but I will clean this up if it leaves a mess.
Happy washing!"

Now I'm going to check my laundry.