Rude note left on an apartment washing machine

You seem oddly determined to tell us something here...

I love the deliberate usage of the term "dumping" for my actions, with all the implications of a rage-filled maniac carelessly throwing around someone else's delicates. What's wrong with "piling" or "placing"?


So with the method I chose, the clothes are vulnerable to:
- the various hidden rodents out there waiting to pounce
- the various dust waiting to pounce
- the various hidden flying bugs waiting to pounce
- the various hidden crawling bugs waiting to pounce.

But with a normal laundry box, the clothes are vulnable to:
- the various hidden rodents out there waiting to pounce
- the various dust waiting to pounce
- the various hidden flying bugs waiting to pounce
- and it's apparently a bit harder for the various hidden crawling bugs

That's my sin?

This is quite aside from the fact I've never seen a bug there in all the times I've used the room (only witches, hobbits, and characterless Irishmen!).

Here's hoping I'll get a note of appreciation from crawling bug community for making their lives ever so easier!

haha

C'mon! For example: silverfish would have a field day! And what about fluff of dust waiting behind the foor just waiting for a breeze?

Nein, I think the person was totally engrossed in posting on TT and reading the interesting comments while their wet laundry sat molding in the washer.

I guess TT has that effect on people. I know I burned some cous cous once, because I was so engrossed in a particularly lively thread!

Come on - the sooner you admit to having a passive-agressive laundry-dumping problem the better. We can help you with this. You are not alone.

Proposal: Each flat-dweller shall have a mandatory laundry basket (as I believe someone already posted somewhere on this thread).
Each laundry basket shall be registered under a unique registration number (combination of alphanumeric characters).
Each owner of each mandatory laundry basket shall sew labels bearing the unique registration number of said laundry basket into each and every item of clothing s/he owns.
As an alternative, each owner may write said unique registration number in indelible marking ink on each item of clothing.
Any owner of laundry failing to position his/her mandatory laundry basket adjacent to washing machines/dryers as appropriate for the facilitation of temporary deposit of their laundry in the event of a laundry mistiming situation shall be placed in the dryer and subjected to a 60-minute extra--super-dry cycle at his/her own expense. Bounce sheets shall be prohibited.

That should be enough to stop this plastic bag malarkey. Next.

LOL. German organisational skills really must be on the decline if it takes an expat forum to come up with a solution to the laundry room anarchy.

PS.: I must confess that for some reason I use a plastic bag instead of a laundry basket, too – but I've got my own washing machine.

So eof just consider getting into laundry therapy. The TT'ers will be here to support you every small step of the way on your journey to wash day recovery. Just imagine with therapy you can get out of the spinning cycle of fearing laundry day and rid yourself of those recurring nightmares of being chased by a jug of angry laundry detergent. Therapy could also help wash away any future defensiveness and anxiety you may have when you encounter post-it notes .

Hey guys,
I can´t believe this has run to 7 pages already - why are we all getting our knickers in such a twist over a slight mishap in the laundry room???
Are we all just bored because it´s Bank Holiday or what???

okay, so I meant to say 6, but even so, it´s ridiculous!!!

Toytown to my rescue in my hour of need.

I have to admit to having to look up wikipedia for the definition of passive-agressive, and was amused to see this line:



*weep* my shame has been uncovered! I can't spin my way out of it any longer! A liquid-diet and a lifestyle of too much white powder - a seemingly never-ending cycle of filth.

I've been meaning to go somewhere to dry-out, but can never seem to find the right programme!

Have a cup of softener, it will make you feel better.

Ok, so you condone my comment about the 'foreigner' angle in the note, but in the same breath you attack me. I think you're confused mate.

Do you know who wrote the note? If yes just speak to them and say you didn't mean any harm and you were in a hurry and needed your laundry done.

If you don't want to speak to them or don't know them, just write a note back saying 'please provide a basket the next time'.

What is a washing machine?

It's a magic contraption used by your domestic slave laundry fairy to provide you with a steady supply of clean socks.

Or - alternatively - various single socks.

Maybe they thought that you had treated their precious knickers with disrespect: i.e. like any old bag of rubbish, which you would normally leave on the floor.

I can understand that it's probably safer not to touch other people's laundry, unless you know them well enough to agree to do that. When I shared machines in the past, if I found that someone had taken my laundry out of the machine, my immediate thought did tend to be "Hey, wait a minute! Who's been touching my stuff? Why has it been removed from the safety of the machine? Is everything still there?" As I understood that someone would have been wanting to use the machine, I didn't exactly take offence, but I did feel slightly as if my privacy had been invaded and as if the laundry had somehow been put at risk.

I did not attack you, I said your comment about Germans still acting like Nazis was not any better than what that person said (what you implied by "Old habits die hard for these Krauties don't they.."). People can also be assholes to non-foreigners, not just to foreigners. (And no, I am not calling you an asshole, it's just a general observation.)
No confusion on my part.