He’s Being Called A Creep By Residents In His Apartment Complex After Taking A Woman’s Wet Laundry Out Of A Communal Washing Machine So He Could Use It
Although it’s a privilege to live in an apartment complex or dorm with a laundry room, having to share the same washing machines and dryers with several residents can get irritating.
One man recently had to take someone’s wet laundry out of a washing machine in his apartment complex so he could use it, and now he’s being accused of being a creep and a jerk by most residents.
He lives in an apartment complex that contains around 200 residents. They share two laundry rooms that hold 20 washers and dryers in total.
There’s a pretty advanced system in his building, as each resident uses an app to keep track of their laundry and pay for it.
Each person gets notified when their loads are done, and the app also lets them know which washers and dryers are available or taken.
However, just because a washer or dryer may have finished a cycle doesn’t mean that the app knows for sure when people have or haven’t taken their clothes out of it.
“Because most people work a 9 to 5 job, these washers and driers are mostly unused during working hours, but [they’re] often occupied in the evenings and weekends,” he explained.
“A few days ago, I wanted to do my laundry and saw that there was only one machine available. When I went downstairs, I saw that the machine had finished its cycle, but the person hadn’t yet taken out their wet laundry.”
He noticed there was a laundry bag sitting in front of the washing machine, and it became clear it would take a while for the owner of the clothes to finally come to collect them.
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So, he took the damp clothes out of the wash, placed them in the laundry bag, and then put his clothes in the machine.
When he returned to his apartment, he noticed that the apartment complex group chat was flooded with texts after an angry woman said some creep took her wet laundry out of the washing machine and was fuming that they hadn’t waited for her.
“I chimed in and said that it was her own responsibility to do so and that she knew exactly when her laundry would be done because of the app,” he recalled.
“[I said] it was rude to assume others had to wait on her when these washers belong to everyone. She must have thought very highly of herself to think that others would care about her wet laundry that much.”
Unfortunately, other people in the group chat didn’t back him up and continued to side with the angry woman, not even aware that he was the one who took her laundry out.
A few days later, he owned up to taking the woman’s laundry out, and people in the apartment group chat began attacking him.
They told him he should have never touched someone else’s laundry and that the group had an “agreement” that they wouldn’t do that, but he never recalled agreeing to anything.
Plus, the group chat is still continuing the narrative that it was creepy of him to touch a woman’s laundry, which he thinks is ridiculous.
Was he wrong to take out that woman’s laundry, or were his actions understandable?
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