You know what really grinds my gears?

[dsallupinyaarea]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Just finished up a game of NCAA football, gotta let all the post game highlights and scenes run so it doesn't freeze, in the background I hear some flicking sound in the hall... 2 seconds later my power goes out. It hits me, someone is in the hall flicking the switches in the fuse box. Lady down the hall was just flipping them all. Who does that? What the ****? Gotta reset all my clocks and replay that whole game just because of her

I'm sorry, but I laughed. You live at Arkham Asylum .

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I'm sorry, but I laughed. You live at Arkham Asylum .

that's the perfect description lol

[ggsimmonds]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Just finished up a game of NCAA football, gotta let all the post game highlights and scenes run so it doesn't freeze, in the background I hear some flicking sound in the hall... 2 seconds later my power goes out. It hits me, someone is in the hall flicking the switches in the fuse box. Lady down the hall was just flipping them all. Who does that? What the ****? Gotta reset all my clocks and replay that whole game just because of her

This sounds like the type of apartment complex that I figured only exists in sitcoms.

What grinds my gears about apartment living is when you have a community laundry room and your neighbors don't take their clothes out of the dryer

[cusefan74]

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This sounds like the type of apartment complex that I figured only exists in sitcoms.

What grinds my gears about apartment living is when you have a community laundry room and your neighbors don't take their clothes out of the dryer

Take their clothes out and set them on top off the dryer. I would give them an hour to get them out and then I would just do that or else they would sit there until the next day.

[bcruise]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Sleet/Freezing rain in April. Who needs a calendar in Missouri anyway?

[ggsimmonds]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Take their clothes out and set them on top off the dryer. I would give them an hour to get them out and then I would just do that or else they would sit there until the next day.

An hour? Man I don't got time for that.

They got 20 minutes, after that their clothes ended up on the table (stackable dryers).

[l3ulvl]

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An hour? Man I don't got time for that.

They got 20 minutes, after that their clothes ended up on the table (stackable dryers).

20 minutes from the time the dryer stops or 20 minutes from the time you notice clothes sitting idly in the dryer?

[ggsimmonds]

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20 minutes from the time the dryer stops or 20 minutes from the time you notice clothes sitting idly in the dryer?

The latter.

No idea how long they were sitting before I noticed.

[l3ulvl]

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The latter.

No idea how long they were sitting before I noticed.

I remember in college the building I lived in (not this hellhole), had a foreign lady who would take people's clothes out of the dryer and fold them on the communal table. I could never do this, I'd be terrified of taking someone's clothes out as some 7 foot goliath came down the steps and thought I was stealing his ****

[ImTellinTim]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

If there are finished clothes in the dryer and I'm in there ready to transfer from washer to dryer, the clothes are coming out. There's no grace period.

[countryboy]

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I didn't have to deal with community laundry area as my apartment had washer/dryer hookups. One thing I absolutely had to have when searching for an apartment many moons ago.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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Haven't had to use a public laundry room since I was a child. Other then during the time when I was in the military. But I remember when I was a kid there was this huge laundry mat right behind the building we lived in. It was a terrible place to the point that they locked all the street side doors to keep the drug dealers and drug addicts from running through the place every time they saw a cop car coming for them. So the only doors that were open, were the doors from the parking lot side. But anyway this was a place where you REALLY wanted to be there when your clothes stopped.

It was the kind of place where people literally would steal other people clothes. If they didn't steal your clothes, your clothes would end up on the floor. My mom learned early on the best time to go there was at 6am before the hoodrats would wake up and come up in there around 12pm. I remember when they went to free dryers, omg what a nightmare that would be. Had people up in there using 5 to 7 dryers at once, for no legit reason. Being that it was free people were putting just 5 or 7 clothing items per a dryer. It was even crazier though to be up in there after 12pm. I only been up in there once after 12pm. Had bad kids running throughout the place.

Guys would be up in there selling bootleg movies, oils, colognes, socks, doo-rags, hair brushes, weave tracks, slippers. Women would be up in there selling their food stamps. I was so glad when my parents moved to a house during my sophomore year in high school and we got our own washer and dryer.

[pietasterp]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I remember in college the building I lived in (not this hellhole), had a foreign lady who would take people's clothes out of the dryer and fold them on the communal table. I could never do this, I'd be terrified of taking someone's clothes out as some 7 foot goliath came down the steps and thought I was stealing his ****

Wow. What a sweetheart. Of course, knowing that, I'd probably just leave them in there on purpose to have them folded by her (!)...

Haven't had to use a public laundry room since I was a child. Other then during the time when I was in the military. But I remember when I was a kid there was this huge laundry mat right behind the building we lived in. It was a terrible place to the point that they locked all the street side doors to keep the drug dealers and drug addicts from running through the place every time they saw a cop car coming for them. So the only doors that were open, were the doors from the parking lot side. But anyway this was a place where you REALLY wanted to be there when your clothes stopped.

It was the kind of place where people literally would steal other people clothes. If they didn't steal your clothes, your clothes would end up on the floor. My mom learned early on the best time to go there was at 6am before the hoodrats would wake up and come up in there around 12pm. I remember when they went to free dryers, omg what a nightmare that would be. Had people up in there using 5 to 7 dryers at once, for no legit reason. Being that it was free people were putting just 5 or 7 clothing items per a dryer. It was even crazier though to be up in there after 12pm. I only been up in there once after 12pm. Had bad kids running throughout the place.

Guys would be up in there selling bootleg movies, oils, colognes, socks, doo-rags, hair brushes, weave tracks, slippers. Women would be up in there selling their food stamps. I was so glad when my parents moved to a house during my sophomore year in high school and we got our own washer and dryer.

Wow. Definite anecdote of the day for me. The things we take for granted in our lives....

[WaitTilNextYear]

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I can honestly say that I'm not sure how I'd handle it if some dude was selling oils and weave tracks in my laundry room when I was an apartment-dweller.

[cusefan74]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

People that turn their carts to block the whole aisle and then walk to the other end of the aisle to get something or the family that has four screaming kids and they can't control them at all. If I acted like that at the store my mom would have kicked my butt of this planet and I would have done the same to my kids.