Friday, April 17, 2009

the laundry note

yesterday, i needed to do laundry. i walked into the laundry room and spotted an open washer but an occupied dryer. yet again a lazy, irresponsible, and forgetful person left their clothes deserted.

i have developed many pet peeves this year while living in the dorms. two of which have to do with the laundry room. people who neglect to scrape off their lint, and those who neglect to collect their cleaned clothes. it has become the "done" thing to just carefully move the offending clothes to a clean counter or to the top of the washer/dryer in order to continue with one's own clean clothing routine. so after an hour of my clothes washing, and someone else's clothes still languishing in the dryer, i moved their clothes on top of the dryer and moved mine in.

an hour later (i set a timer so i don't commit this irritating act), i came in to collect my clothes punctually. i was assaulted with a note written on a large piece of paper. the note stated:

DO NOT TOUCH MY THINGS! IT IS NOT POLITE TO MOVE OTHER PEOPLES CLOTHES! THANKS A LOT!

i was utterly dumbfounded. and i had to use much effort to quash the impulse to write upon a post it note (THEN BE RESPONSIBLE AND MOVE YOUR CRAP ON TIME) and stick it on the obnoxious note. i really, really, really wanted to though. the audacity of people! astonishing!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I would've left the note of rebuttal!

Anonymous said...

It's Ms. Rabbit here...I've always wondered if a person would get pissed when we moved their clothing...if I was still there you better believe we would have left a note for them :)