UltimaRV wrote: I am going to patent the commercial dryer that sends a text message to your cell phone 10 minutes and 5 minutes before it stops, same with commercial washers.
If that doesn't make a mint, I'll buy Stacker Trailer that opens up into a laundry mat/waiting room for an additional retirement income while parked-up
(on edit: DW said she refuses the "attendant" position)
UltimaRV wrote: I am going to patent the commercial dryer that sends a text message to your cell phone 10 minutes and 5 minutes before it stops, same with commercial washers.
If that doesn't make a mint, I'll buy Stacker Trailer that opens up into a laundry mat/waiting room for an additional retirement income while parked-up
(on edit: DW said she refuses the "attendant" position)
UltimaRV wrote: I am going to patent the commercial dryer that sends a text message to your cell phone 10 minutes and 5 minutes before it stops, same with commercial washers.
Your TIME is not more valuable than my ENERGY. Ever. No apologies. A little aggro for you is a day in bed for me. If you wanna leave your stuff in until the game is over or you're through watching Oprah, be my guest. I'll be the last to complain or mess with your stuff.
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I really have nothing more to add, but the thread has rocked the ridiculous scale so hard at this point that I almost hate to see it end. ...
I can not imagine that this post has lasted for 7 pages , and I just have to add my 2 cents!
The bottom line remains that indeed your ENERGY capacity, while I empathize with why that is so Serena, is not evident to the person who is looking at the unattended machine with your items in it! The ONLY reasonable solution is that if you have a problem with someone touching your items, then ensure that you are there when your load ends. period. If you cannot or CANNOT be there when your load ends (and everyone may find themselves in this situation for whatever reason), then you have no reasonable grounds to be upset if someone else removes your load.
I support the OP 100 percent, and the fellow who yelled at her was not being courteous nor using common sense.
there are certainly far worse things to become upset about!
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Many, many years ago I was a laundromat attendant one day a week (Saturday or Sunday). Aside from wiping machines, picking up litter and making change, my responsibility was to ensure that when a load of wash was finished it was immediately removed from the washer and when a load was dry it was removed from the dryer. Most patrons stayed while their laundry washed and dried, but if they left it was removed. Some would ask me to place the wash load into the dryer if they left, and I happily did that too. The object was to keep all the machines going all of the time as long as there were people waiting. (On weekends all machines were kept busy.)
I've never used a laundromat that didn't have an attendant, but if I did I'd do exactly what the OP did. And on the off-chance that I had to leave and the machine with my load of laundry in it finished before I got back, I'd expect anyone wanting to use it to remove my clothing. If they folded it for me I'd be very grateful and apologetic. Anyone who would come back and yell at the OP for what she did is worse than an inconsiderate jerk.
TowandaBluffs wrote: ... The ONLY reasonable solution is that if you have a problem with someone touching your items, then ensure that you are there when your load ends. period. If you cannot be there when your load ends ... then you have no reasonable grounds to be upset if someone else removes your load...
Just another fine example of how some people are simply revolving idiots no matter which way they turn they are still idiots, no way my DW would have to put up with that abuse I'm sorry that you did.
Serena wrote: You guys almost have me convinced that I am in the wrong not to go around hassling park owners to supply waiting areas under the ADA, just so you can be in huge hurry? Your TIME is not more valuable than my ENERGY. Ever. No apologies. A little aggro for you is a day in bed for me.
Ah. But are you the only disabled person? How much effort did it take me or someone else to get to the laundry only to find the machines full of your clothing?
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The hell? It's c.a.m.p.i.n.g. Supposed to proceed at a relaxed pace? That kind of thing?
How do you know that today isn't the day I'm supposed to be leaving the RV park, that I have other places to go, that we need to return to work? As you point out, for some people, RVing is about c.a.m.p.i.n.g. For some of us, it's about T.R.A.V.E.L.I.N.G., for some of us, it may be about something else entirely. And I want to be moving on. But I can't if I'm being held up by someone else's laundry. That, I'm afraid, causes me a lot of stress, which is exactly the opposite of relaxing.
Let's all enjoy ourselves. We don't know each other well enough to know each other's situations, our goals or where we need to be. So how about we just do the simplest thing and show each other some respect?
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, and I just have to add my 2 cents!
