Even Shaq Could Make This Free Throw
Living in an apartment means I get to wash my clothes in the building’s laundry facility. And anybody who’s ever had to wash their clothes in a public location knows that sometimes you have to handle other people’s clothes and vice versa. Usually it’s not a problem for me because I tend to do my laundry in the middle of the night and there are several extra machines for any other night owls but occasionally it happens.
I always do two loads and leave an empty basket on top of each of the machines that I’m using but I estimate that 70% of the time when someone has to take my clothes out of the washer they put them somewhere else- on the table, in the rolling laundry cart, in the dryer. On a couple occasions I even had people pay to start the dryer. They may have thought they were doing me a favor but I have a lot of stuff I don’t put in the dryer so I’d just as soon cover the fifty cents myself.
I’m writing this in the hopes that somebody can provide me with a possible explanation as to why a person would remove the basket from the top of the machine, pull my clothes out and then not put my clothes in that basket. Anybody? As I said, this occurs in this manner more often than not and it’s happened over the course of many years of apartment dwelling so it’s unlikely that it’s one idiotic culprit. Does the basket on the machine have some meaning I’m not aware of, kind of like putting quarters on a pool table? Or am I simply being too tough and the connection between the empty basket and the clothes inside isn’t as blatantly obvious as I think it is? If I could attribute it to laziness I would, but since throwing the clothes in the basket is the easiest way to get them out, that can’t be it.
Part of me hopes that I’ll run into a person who does this just so I can get some answers but part of me is scared to encounter such a person. Druggies and criminals in the building I can handle. Jessica Simpson I can’t.
People really are idiots