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Too bad the other people there are either sucky or uber weird.
I get to see a wonderful slice of oddity or lunacy each week on laundry day since we have no washer or dryer in our apartment.
There is one woman who has been at the laundromat every week now for the past month and a half or so. This woman uses all of the triple load commercial washers (12 total) and one entire wall of dryers (20 in total) all by herself!
To put this in perspective, my g/f and I together go through enough clothes for 1 triple load washer - that is including sheets, towels, etc. not just clothes.
This week, she got there just after I had loaded my laundry into a commercial washer. She brought in several shopping carts of clothes and filled all but one of the free commercial washers. In the meantime, another guy came in and tried to use the last commercial washer. She yelled at him to get away from it because it was her washer. He stopped, watched her walk out, and then put his clothes in anyway. I like this guy.
She sees this, too late to stop him from starting it which locks the washer, and then runs into the owner's office to complain. The owner walks out, listens to the whole story, shrugs and says 'First come, first serve.' Well! They didn't do it that way at <other laundromat> where she used to her laundry. If she was there first, she got to use all the machines she wanted. The owner shrugged again and suggested she go back there if she prefers there rules. I
'ed. It was good.
At this point, I got to overhear a bit of her conversation with her friend who was there to help her fold clothes. Mostly because there was only one strip of folding table left open and that was right next to the two of them.
Apparently, this lovely specimen of Whorus Entitlementus has not 1, not 2, not 3, but 6 children. I'm not opposed to other people having children (generally) and, in fact, my father was the youngest of 6 kids. My problem is that they apparently go through three changes of clothes per day. I mean,
is she doing making her kids change clothes that often. That's just stupid.
Furthermore, she is now planning on putting a spike strip across the road in front of her house because everybody drives by too fast. I realize this can be a problem, and I would have recommended she call the police, but she continued on to say that someone was bound to kill one of her kids while they are playing in the road and that's why they should drive slower. And if they hit her kids, she's going to sue and 'take all they's stuff.' Or, and this is a crazy idea, she could just keep her kids OUT OF THE BLOODY ROAD. But, clearly, that is just not acceptable.
Oh, and her two youngest kids were found by a neighbor about 1/2 a mile away from her house and returned home by said neighbor. The kids opened and walked out of the gate on her yard and got away. Listening to her, it would be the fault of everyone else (Her neighbors, police, Easter Bunny, etc.) if her kids got hurt while wandering down the road. It is not her fault, because she has 6 kids and "I can't be responsible for all them kids. How can I watch the little ones and still watch Oprah with Kendra after she gets back from school?" So, you can watch Oprah with a kid who is old enough to go to school, but you can't watch the two youngest kids who are clearly old enough to open the gate in yard and go for a walk. Such wonderful, wonderful parenting...
So finally, while I'm folding the last of my laundry I get to hear about how the EW's sister. Apparently, her sister tried to call in sick because the new baby kept her up all night and she was tired. Her evil, disgusting, bastard of a boss told her she had too many absences already and that she had to come in or be fired. Well, EW is just absolutely pissed about this. How dare they make her work her scheduled shift when she is tired! It's not fair, it's illegal, they're violating FMLA and she told her sister to get a lawyer and sue because they can't legally make her work if her baby kept her awake at night!
It's a good thing I finished my laundry and left at that point, because I was getting really close to verbally eviscerating the raging EW. I'm really thinking I may have to change my laundry day, because if I spend too much time in this woman's company there's going to be trouble.
I get to see a wonderful slice of oddity or lunacy each week on laundry day since we have no washer or dryer in our apartment.
There is one woman who has been at the laundromat every week now for the past month and a half or so. This woman uses all of the triple load commercial washers (12 total) and one entire wall of dryers (20 in total) all by herself!
To put this in perspective, my g/f and I together go through enough clothes for 1 triple load washer - that is including sheets, towels, etc. not just clothes.This week, she got there just after I had loaded my laundry into a commercial washer. She brought in several shopping carts of clothes and filled all but one of the free commercial washers. In the meantime, another guy came in and tried to use the last commercial washer. She yelled at him to get away from it because it was her washer. He stopped, watched her walk out, and then put his clothes in anyway. I like this guy.
She sees this, too late to stop him from starting it which locks the washer, and then runs into the owner's office to complain. The owner walks out, listens to the whole story, shrugs and says 'First come, first serve.' Well! They didn't do it that way at <other laundromat> where she used to her laundry. If she was there first, she got to use all the machines she wanted. The owner shrugged again and suggested she go back there if she prefers there rules. I
'ed. It was good.At this point, I got to overhear a bit of her conversation with her friend who was there to help her fold clothes. Mostly because there was only one strip of folding table left open and that was right next to the two of them.
Apparently, this lovely specimen of Whorus Entitlementus has not 1, not 2, not 3, but 6 children. I'm not opposed to other people having children (generally) and, in fact, my father was the youngest of 6 kids. My problem is that they apparently go through three changes of clothes per day. I mean,
is she doing making her kids change clothes that often. That's just stupid.Furthermore, she is now planning on putting a spike strip across the road in front of her house because everybody drives by too fast. I realize this can be a problem, and I would have recommended she call the police, but she continued on to say that someone was bound to kill one of her kids while they are playing in the road and that's why they should drive slower. And if they hit her kids, she's going to sue and 'take all they's stuff.' Or, and this is a crazy idea, she could just keep her kids OUT OF THE BLOODY ROAD. But, clearly, that is just not acceptable.
Oh, and her two youngest kids were found by a neighbor about 1/2 a mile away from her house and returned home by said neighbor. The kids opened and walked out of the gate on her yard and got away. Listening to her, it would be the fault of everyone else (Her neighbors, police, Easter Bunny, etc.) if her kids got hurt while wandering down the road. It is not her fault, because she has 6 kids and "I can't be responsible for all them kids. How can I watch the little ones and still watch Oprah with Kendra after she gets back from school?" So, you can watch Oprah with a kid who is old enough to go to school, but you can't watch the two youngest kids who are clearly old enough to open the gate in yard and go for a walk. Such wonderful, wonderful parenting...
So finally, while I'm folding the last of my laundry I get to hear about how the EW's sister. Apparently, her sister tried to call in sick because the new baby kept her up all night and she was tired. Her evil, disgusting, bastard of a boss told her she had too many absences already and that she had to come in or be fired. Well, EW is just absolutely pissed about this. How dare they make her work her scheduled shift when she is tired! It's not fair, it's illegal, they're violating FMLA and she told her sister to get a lawyer and sue because they can't legally make her work if her baby kept her awake at night!
It's a good thing I finished my laundry and left at that point, because I was getting really close to verbally eviscerating the raging EW. I'm really thinking I may have to change my laundry day, because if I spend too much time in this woman's company there's going to be trouble.
Though, my laundromat did have Ms. Pac Man 
They just replaced my original w/d (25 years old and still going!) with brand new ones this year too, along with all my other appliances.
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