Sunday, January 29, 2006
GAAAAH!!!
I have to vent because the dryers don't (well, they do, but seemingly to each other, so that they're always dripping wet inside with scummy buildup and your clothes never dry, especially when other dryers are in use). Here is my biggest pet peeve: I hate it when you pick a time when you don't think anyone else will be doing laundry, and you go downstairs and all the machines are in use, so you come back later, and they're still all in use, and you try again, and finally the laundry room is empty, and you think, oh good, here's my chance, and you load up the washers, and three minutes later someone comes in with what looks like a month's worth of clothes, and they plonk their stuff down right on top of yours so that your stuff is scrunched up against the wall where the sticky detergent goo on the counter was from the last person and they're so disappointed because they were hoping to use the machines, and you apologize and explain that you've been waiting for a really long time too, but you work them in, and then they let their laundry sit for hours and hours in the washers you were planning to use, but you don't want to move it because you think it would be really rude and you don't want them to get mad, and then you wipe out the only dryers you feel are safe to use (the two out of six without the cruddy buildup), and they come along and load their laundry into one of your two freshly cleaned dryers when you're upstairs carrying up the finished load you didn't want to leave sitting (because if you did your clothes would get damp and scummy, plus you have a newly washed load waiting to be dried) and you think, how ironic, because you were there for so long with not a soul in sight and they have to appear and take your dryer during the two minutes you left your clothes unattended and then you wait and you wait because they never come back for their clothes, even though they know you're waiting for that dryer, and after you've gone upstairs again to take more clothes up you come downstairs and someone else has opened up your washing machine which only stopped one minute ago and already they're trying to move your clothes and you have to wash them again and you notice them dumping an entire lint filter into the garbage and banging it around in there to loosen the lint, which is really gross because it's in the depths of the garbage can, and you know what was recently in there, and then they put it back in the dryer (now contaminated), and then the ink runs and makes splotches all over the white fabric of the brand new never-been-worn India print cotton blouse you just got as a present from your mom because you were waiting for the dryer you had cleaned out and it sat in the washer wet which you normally never let your clothes do because just such a thing might happen and besides you think it would be rude if someone else came along and needed a washer and your clothes were just sitting in there, and by the time the person who used the dryer you cleaned out does finally come back, it's all full of streaky pinkish-grey marks and you don't want to use it anymore, and you have to run your dryers twice each time because the dryers vent to each other and the tubes that supposedly vent outside are so stopped up with lint that they're no longer working, especially when more than one person is using the dryers and you've mentioned it to your RAs and they've let Housing know and it was supposed to be fixed ages ago and you thought you'd be done with your laundry by your newly established bedtime and now you're all off track again even though you've put so much energy and effort into trying to reset your sleep schedule by staying up all night to induce sleep deprivation to make yourself tired at night and it's worked and you are tired and all you want to do is take a shower and go to bed and your blood sugar is low because you missed dinner and you still have to fold all your clothes and people are looking at you funny because you're wearing your knee-length paisley skirt and gold jeweled slippers with navy blue athletic socks and white camisole with no bra because you're down to your very last clean clothes which is why you're doing laundry and why you have to get it done before tomorrow when you have to be up early because you're going to church with a friend and you're really embarrassed because you know you look weird and you're worried about leaving your clothes alone again even just to run upstairs to put a load away because someone might touch/move/steal them, and because you're so jumpy and tired and strangely dressed your hallmates now think you're a freak and all I can say is that I really, really, really want my own washer and dryer.
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