Sunday, April 15, 2012
Midwest politeness, OCD, or just plain creepy?
I live in an apartment complex. There are 4 washers and 4 dryers in the basement. Usually, that's enough, although if you wait until the weekend to do your laundry, you might have to go up and down the stairs a few times to find an empty machine. Yesterday, I did my laundry, in the late afternoon. Washing the clothes went fine. I hung some of them, and put others in the dryer. And I completely forgot. I went out for a few drinks, came back, and went to sleep. This morning, I remembered that I had left a load in the dryer. What usually happens, if somebody wants to use it, is that the next person takes your load out of the dryer and leaves it in top of it. Fair enough, since it's my fault that I hadn't pick it up. So I went to get my laundry, and as I expected, somebody had taken it out of the dryer. The weird thing, though, was that it was perfectly folded!!! I am not kidding. Somebody had taken my stuff out of the dryer, folded it (shirts and towels) and left it on top of the machine. I am baffled. I don't know whether it is just Midwest politeness, an OCD neighbor, or a creepy neighbor. My husband is as puzzled as I am. What is your take, dear reader?
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I'd say it's creepy and obnoxious.
ReplyDeleteROFL.
ReplyDeleteWe had exactly the same argument in our dorm (in the Midwest), with "It's nice!" vs. "My underwear is my business!" as competing philosophies at the heated dorm meeting to discuss the issue. Me, I generally sat with my laundry in the laundry room for some quiet me time.
In college and graduate school (not in the Midwest), one was lucky if one's laundry didn't end up on the floor if forgotten. Forget about on top of the dryer.
So there might be something to the Midwest thing.
I was leaning towards creepiness, but if you say you have experience with it, I guess it's a Midwest thing. I've taken laundry out of a dryer, but I always leave it on top of the machine or in a basket, if there is one in sight. That's what people usually do in my apartment complex.
ReplyDeleteI think that's a very nice gesture. Just remember to pay it forward.
ReplyDeleteIt will have to be in some other way. I can barely fold my own laundry, let alone somebody's else.
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