It's worth thinking about these little things beforehand.
I came out the other day to collect my stuff and someone had taken my stuff out, matched all the socks, folded everything nicely and cleaned the filters in the machines (we get told off by the house witches if this does not happen i.e cleaning of filters).
Strange feeling really, a result I didn't have to do all that myself but also bit freaked out someone has been carefully folding my underwear. I am not comfortable with that, even as a man.
The weird thing was no one had used the wash machine and there was nothing in the dryer in place of my stuff, so it was like it was just a random act of kindness / weirdness.
I am not one to normally mock an act of kindness, but some things are a bit personal, right?
I have been there when you want to use a machine and its occupied, then the cycle ends, and you check every 15 mins for an hour and the person doesnt come to collect and you wonder whether to chance offending them by removing the stuff, and in those occasions I have managed to just get my stuff done and put it back in the machine again, or leave it in a pile. I don't want to give someone else the impression I was handling their stuff far too personally. But then I guess the thought process of neighbour underwear handlers is I don't want to give the impression that I just throw their stuff in a pile. But undie handlers, DO THIS. We will not be offended.
The weird thing was, a notice was put up when I returned from work the next day, many notices get put up in my building, complaining about the cleanliness of the wash room and making sure the filters were cleaned otherwise the quality is effected etc etc. This had followed a note on the wash room only a week or two before.
Maybe I am connecting the wrong dots, but it appears someone was having a dig towards me as I was the one using the wash room that day, without even giving me the chance to do it by dealing with my load in the machine and cleaning everything.
Crazy people.
I have removed my neighbors clothes on occasion from the washing machine or dryer. When i take other peoples load out of the dryer, i do try to take the extra few minutes to fold it all, or at the very least the bigger things like sheets and towels, simply because it would be a shame for it to get all wrinkled. It does feel personal when i come across undergarments, but being mature about it, its just another article of clean clothing and i have no idea who it actually belongs to.
My own wash has been removed more times than i can count. Some fold it, some dump it and some hang it. Whenever i bump into neighbors in the laundry room, i apologize for leaving my laundry unattended. I have young kids at home and much as i would love to drop everything as soon as the lid to the wash machine pops open, i simply can't. Sometimes the kids are in the bath, sometimes food is on the stove, and sometimes the kids are just fighting non stop. I tell them that if my things are in the machine when they need it, there is no need to wait for me. Just remove the laundry and the machine is yours. Thankfully my neighbors are all very easy going and dont mind finding my wash sitting around. Oh the joys of apartment living....
Ha ha, my friend had ALL of her undies stolen out of the washer/dryer when she was in school in Halifax. ALL of them - the lot!
I had great fun buying her ridiculous new undergarments and posting them to her over the next few weeks. Bizarre patterns? Check. Space-age plastic materials? Check. An awe-inspiring ruffle surface area-to-volume aspect? Ditto.
It could only of been unattended 30mins which would appear not enough time to wash, dry, empty, fold my stuff and clean the machine.