She Lives In An Apartment Building, And She Recently Accidentally Ruined Another Woman’s Laundry, But Doesn’t Think She Should Have To Pay For The Damage
This 23-year-old woman currently lives in an apartment building that has a communal laundry room. And just yesterday, she went to do some laundry when she realized that all of the laundry machines were being used.
Well, kind of. She happened to notice how many of the washing machines were actually finished. However, a bunch of residents just had not picked their clothes up yet.
So, she decided to sit and wait for about 10 to 20 minutes. But no one ever came by to grab their clothes out of the machines.
At that point, she was done waiting around and decided to just empty out one of the washing machines. Then, she set that specific load of laundry off to the side.
“This is a policy in our apartment,” she explained.
Afterward, she put her own load of laundry in and left while it got washed. Once she later returned to the laundry room to grab her clothes, though, she was met by another female resident who was seriously angry.
Apparently, the resident started to yell at her and accuse her of ruining brand-new clothes. Then, the woman even began demanding that she pay for the price of the ruined items.
She soon realized that while she had been removing the woman’s clothes from the washing machine, she had accidentally missed a few white-colored items.
“They were very small, especially wet,” she recalled. “And I just didn’t see them.”
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Her clothes, on the other hand, were entirely dark. So, after she washed her own load, the color from her dark clothes wound up bleeding onto the woman’s white clothes– making them grey.
So, the other resident was devastated– because apparently, all of the items were brand-new, high-quality clothes that were being washed for the very first time.
Now, she admitted to realizing that the whole mix-up was really her fault. After all, she was the one who didn’t see the white items while switching the loads out. At the same time, though, she thinks the resident had a part to play in the situation, too.
“I also think that if she valued her clothes so much, she should have come to pick them up earlier,” she vented.
Regardless, she wound up apologizing for the mistake. But, the resident still just wanted her to pay for at least some of the clothes cost.
So now, she’s been left wondering whether “ruining” the woman’s clothes actually made her the jerk and if she should really have to pay for them or not.
Do you think she had a right to switch her clothes into the washing machine if that’s her apartment building’s policy? Even so, should she have been more careful when handling other people’s clothing items? Do you think she should be responsible for reimbursing this woman or not? What would you do?
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