Tiger4x4RV wrote: I spent 20 years using public laundromats. When I finally was able to buy a house and my own laundry equipment, I think I appreciated the W/D more than the house! Now I use public laundry equipment only when I travel.
My observations: Most people who use public (not campground) laundries are good decent people. The laundromat is an extension of their home. They don't trash the equipment. They do their laundry just like anyone else, with possibly their worst offense being the heavily scented laundry products that I have to avoid. Some cannot afford their own equipment. Some, especially in small backwoods towns, use the laundromats due to shortage of water at home.
You might want to avoid these places on Sundays, when they often seem to be full of ranch hands or sheepherders or heavy equipment operators spending their day off washing their very grubby clothing.
My advice: Stay with your laundry. Take a book or a computer toy along to amuse yourself, or chat with the locals. Check the equipment often. Be careful not to melt your clothes in the dryer.
Campground laundries, where no one lives there or will even be there tomorrow, are a whole 'nother place. No accountability. Beware. You're lucky that your clothing was only folded wet and not stolen.
Wow you description the CG laundry facilities and their users are certainly different than my experiences…
I have found the CG facilities are used by a lot of people in the same boat that need and like to use clean machines just as much as the next guy… the biggest problem I have run into is they often don’t clean the lint filter in the drier after use and that only occasionally happens… that just might be because they are used to using public Laundromats where there are no individual lint filters…
I use public and CG laundries and prefer the CG to the public… I mostly use the public because the CG facilities might be to crowded…
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Starknaked, They were drying their boots on my time left. I had gone next door to buy something to drink. It wasn't the young folks who folded them, but a woman who saw them lying on the table, after they threw them there. Thank goodness for her. But I wouldn't expect young folks(in their early 20's) to be considerate as someone older. After all their boots didn't get very clean holding them under water which was dripping off the gutter. Basically they were just getting their boots dryed. I didn't hang around to see them come back.
It seems some details that couldn’t have been forgotten and important to the story were left out of the OP… might have been better to ask the question and leave the story out…
First of all I would have expected the 20 something’s to be as considerate as a older person and I have run to very many that are… I have also seen many situation where some of our older people could learn about consideration from some of the younger ones…
Just the other day at WM while waiting for the DW to come out of the store… a young man in his 20’s and his family on their way to their car followed shortly by a older woman with a cart full of bags of (I think) potting soil going to her car… the young man returned his cart to the store and while returning to his car stopped offered and loaded all the ladies bags into her car then returned her cart to the store… he also noticed a piece of watermelon that fell on the ground and was left there, picked it up and deposited it in the trash can before returning to his waiting family…
We have a lot of promising young people here at the home base CG and I find them encouraging and refreshing… I am more concerned about what us older folks are leaving for them…
JJBIRISH wrote: It seems some details that couldn’t have been forgotten and important to the story were left out of the OP… might have been better to ask the question and leave the story out…
First of all I would have expected the 20 something’s to be as considerate as a older person and I have run to very many that are… I have also seen many situation where some of our older people could learn about consideration from some of the younger ones…
Just the other day at WM while waiting for the DW to come out of the store… a young man in his 20’s and his family on their way to their car followed shortly by a older woman with a cart full of bags of (I think) potting soil going to her car… the young man returned his cart to the store and while returning to his car stopped offered and loaded all the ladies bags into her car then returned her cart to the store… he also noticed a piece of watermelon that fell on the ground and was left there, picked it up and deposited it in the trash can before returning to his waiting family…
We have a lot of promising young people here at the home base CG and I find them encouraging and refreshing… I am more concerned about what us older folks are leaving for them…
We are concerned about that too, and we figure one of the things we can do is not shop at Walmart.
mema/poppop wrote: Starknaked, They were drying their boots on my time left. I had gone next door to buy something to drink. It wasn't the young folks who folded them, but a woman who saw them lying on the table, after they threw them there. Thank goodness for her. But I wouldn't expect young folks(in their early 20's) to be considerate as someone older. After all their boots didn't get very clean holding them under water which was dripping off the gutter. Basically they were just getting their boots dryed. I didn't hang around to see them come back.
I would have thrown the boots back out in the mud, but that's me
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JJBIRISH wrote: It seems some details that couldn’t have been forgotten and important to the story were left out of the OP… might have been better to ask the question and leave the story out…
First of all I would have expected the 20 something’s to be as considerate as a older person and I have run to very many that are… I have also seen many situation where some of our older people could learn about consideration from some of the younger ones…
Just the other day at WM while waiting for the DW to come out of the store… a young man in his 20’s and his family on their way to their car followed shortly by a older woman with a cart full of bags of (I think) potting soil going to her car… the young man returned his cart to the store and while returning to his car stopped offered and loaded all the ladies bags into her car then returned her cart to the store… he also noticed a piece of watermelon that fell on the ground and was left there, picked it up and deposited it in the trash can before returning to his waiting family…
We have a lot of promising young people here at the home base CG and I find them encouraging and refreshing… I am more concerned about what us older folks are leaving for them…
We are concerned about that too, and we figure one of the things we can do is not shop at Walmart.
Not that it is related or germane to the thread in any way, I do go to WM, but I am not a WM frequent flier …
Nor am I now going to waste a half hour composing a post that states how I feel about WM and their highly re guarded here on RV.net business plan, only to have it deleted within moments of being posted…
but being a free American I still exercise my right to enter the property of the communist republic of WM to spend a night now and then… as the mother of all US corporate welfare recipients that has used my money and that has allowed the tilted playing field of non-competition to work so well for them… the only US company in modern times to try and reinstitute the old company store practices for its workers… I do admit that I buy my prescription drugs there since I helped finance the building of WM stores in all parts of the country on American soil that I travel to…
In my defense I am in the process of setting up and moving to a mail order prescription plan…another reason I grace the doors of WM is my banks branch and ATM is located inside the store locally here…I freely admit that the few purchases I do make there are and I accept are a part of the problem and one that I think about…
Really?!?!?!? They would have NEVER seen those boots again, if that were the case.
mema/poppop wrote: Starknaked, They were drying their boots on my time left. I had gone next door to buy something to drink. It wasn't the young folks who folded them, but a woman who saw them lying on the table, after they threw them there. Thank goodness for her. But I wouldn't expect young folks(in their early 20's) to be considerate as someone older. After all their boots didn't get very clean holding them under water which was dripping off the gutter. Basically they were just getting their boots dryed. I didn't hang around to see them come back.
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mema/poppop wrote: Starknaked, They were drying their boots on my time left. I had gone next door to buy something to drink.
That is just UNBELIEVABLE. And to think they had time to remove your clothes, and then someone else would see them laying there and IMMEDIATELY run over and fold and stack all of them, before you could get back from next door with your drink. Simply unbelievable, I tell you.
I know I have removed peoples things from dryers and folded and stacked them. But usually after I had waited more than a half hour to make sure they had plenty of time to tend to their own laundry.
The unwritten rule is "15 minutes unattended". Beyond that they go to the lost and found box. But I wait for 30 minutes, then fold and stack. Someone else can put them in lost and found.
I don't sanitize a washer. Never had a problem. But the lint filters in dryers...now that's another thing.
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These were some brazen thugs… they conspired to lay in wait for her to leave the laundry to just get a drink… swept in like a thief in the night to remove her clothes and dry their boots on her dime… in the meantime a very nice older lady folder her damp clothes for her saving the day as the thugs left the Laundromat with their boots in her dryer to avoid detection… it could be a episode for the Jerry Springer Show… where they bring out the 20’ish thugs and the older woman beats them with the boots…
I am not saying it didn’t happen exactly that way, I wasn‘t there EITHER…. Its just suspicious especially since the primary facts were only in a follow-up justification post and not in the OP…
But I have seen similar things played out in other Laundromats across the country…
Someone has their clothes in the washer/dryer and like Elvis just left the building so have these people… others waiting to use the machine and not wanting to make laundry a daylong project, after a while remove the abandon clothes and use the machine… the returning person is always incensed about it and claims to have only been gone a short time, and proclaims the perps as being a rude inconsiderate…
Of coarse not being there makes it impossible to know if the damp clothes ran out of time or were removed before the machine stopped…
The OP admitted to her obvious mistake, and it is and was always the obvious solution to that problem…
I to have left the laundry room many times and make every effort to be back before the machine stops running… but I just accept that if I am not back others may not wait and on occasion something might end up missing, but that has never happened yet, except for a almost full bottle of tide went away in my absence one time……
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