What would you have done?

United States
May 27, 2009 9:58pm CST
I was at the washeteria tonight and I noticed some clothes drying on the other side. While I was loading my washers a gentleman came in and did something to the dryer, I was busy and wasn't sure what!! Then he left... after he was gone I noticed the dryer was not running, but the timer was and all of his clothes were still in the dryer. I wondered if I should push a button to make it continue running as it had been. I don't know if he made a mistake or did it on purpose, but it wasn't running and it had like 15 minutes left on it when I first noticed the timer. I even thought if he'd taken his clothes I would stick mine in there if there was any time left!! I could have taken his clothes out and dried my own! LOL! I couldn't have done that! ... but I did think about it! Instead I jus watched the timer tick down to nothing while the clothes just sat there! Whay would you have done?
4 responses
• Canada
28 May 09
Talk about two peas in a pod!LOL.....I would have had the same thoughts and actions as you just described
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• United States
28 May 09
Lol! Well it did keep my mind occuppied while I was doing the boring task of laundry! I kept looking around for cameras or something wondering if it was a trick of some sort. He did finally come back... just to get the clothes out of the dryer that had not been running all the time!
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• Canada
30 May 09
LOL I would have said something to him about the dryer not running and the time he had left on it
• United States
6 Jun 09
I would have but he left... that's why I was trying to figure out what to do.. I wanted to start the dryer for him so his money wasn't wasted.. but wasn't sure what he was doing!!
@anetteh (3590)
• Sweden
28 May 09
Sharing washing rooms with others can shore be really anoying. I will tell you a little story, I shared washing room with lots of neighbors and certain neghbors are washing all the time, so there is not many times left for others. Anyway, this perticular afternoon it was my time to wash..so me and my son went down and started. I had my timerlocker moved to the next time...but it was still my time to wash. I only had one mashine going left, and one in the dryer. When my son came up to me and said, that someone was in the washing room and took out my clothes in the mashine...I went down and there a woman stand saying I had picked her washing time...I said, that is not right...well she had of course put her timerlocker up...anyway...I asked how she had came in to the roome, since I had the key..She replyed that it was the propertykeeper, so I went strait to the propertykeeper and asked him, but he said he has not. Now, I finished my washing, but two days later, one other woman who cleaned our entrances, who was the woman who stole my washingtime, best friend, had the keys to all the rooms in the cellar, no longer had access to the doors...lol. And she had to move really fast....
@anetteh (3590)
• Sweden
28 May 09
You can imagine how angry I was, and more frustrated I got when I found out it was not the prpertykeeper that open the door for her. Both those familys left the building the same summer when it happen. Living together in the same house means you have to show one another some respect. All the neighbours have the rights to the washingroom. And that means, you can not step in and take someones time even if I have removed my timerlocker and moved it to another day I was going to wash. I can do so if I want...and since I did have the key noone should be able to get in. Well, Now I live in a appartment ten minutes from town, I have my own washingmashine, I have a garden and can use the sun to dry it. I do not pay more for rent...and yes, the best part...no neighbours steeling my washing time......
• United States
28 May 09
Oh man! I would have been so angry!!! I don't like it when people just move my stuff around like it's there right to do so! man!! That's why I didn't want to touch this man's things, because I just didn't know! I am glad the owner solved the problem with taking her keys like that! What an abuse of a "priveledge"!!!
@agrim94 (3805)
• India
6 Jun 09
i m sorry i dont know what is washeteria but according to your discussion i can make out it is a place where you can go and wash your clothes. Out in India we dont have that and we have to have our own washing machine in our home. Also i dont like machine dried clothes and like them to be sun dried like old fashined way and still done in most Indian families. So i think if i was you , i would have done he same thing what you did.....NOTHING.
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• United States
6 Jun 09
Yes, a washeteria is a place to do laundry. Most people have washers and dryers in their home, but I am staying away from home with my son who was in a terrible wreck. So... I have to do my launry at the washateria. Thanks for your response... I did nothing but watch that man's money tick away!
@jayrene (2708)
• Philippines
28 May 09
wow... i would be having the same thoughts like what you had... and probably do the same thing. i dont like messing around with other people things, even though we want to help, sometimes other people take it as something else and they get angry. i have experienced something like that... so im very careful and wont do such things again, just like what happened now to you, if it was me there, id probably be watching the timer only and wont do a thing.. but my mind will be fighting of two things, to push the button or not to push button.. should i or shouldnt i?...
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• United States
28 May 09
yeah, and my mind ran in circles like that for about half an hour or so!! I kept wanting to "help" but then I thought if I push a button which setting was it on? And what if they catch on fire because it's too hot!! Stuff like that.. just want to help but like you said afraid it would be the wrong thing... then even worried that not doing anything was the wrong thing too!! ugh!!!