You can tell a lot about a person by the way they behave when they are doing laundry. Huge community laundrymats are a madhouse, that goes without saying. But the true test is the apartment building laundry, the ones that are reserved for 10-15 apartments within the same building or complex. Since I have rented for quite a while now, I am adept at sizing up peoples’ laundry room antics.

You have the - I don’t take my laundry out in a normal amount of time no matter what, in fact I will leave all my wet clothes in the washing machines for at least 24 hours every single time I do laundry, and if it is a snow storm, at least 48 hours. You have the - I might take my laundry out sorta on time but I left huge piles of mud, random change and other unidentifiable things inside the washer and I refuse to clean it. You also have the - I like to overload the washers with 3 loads full of clothes in one machine so it either overflows, makes a scary noise, or breaks the machine all together so no one else can use it. There are a few variations within those discriptions, but most people fall into one of those 3 major categories. All of which are annoying, rude and just dumb. Why is it so diffucult to just do your laundry, keep things neat and get the heck out of the way for everyone else? Is it really a hard thing to do?

I propose this. A laundry room ban. I think people should be permenantly banned from communal laundry rooms after a certain amount of incidents! Can’t wash your clothes without leaving 18 bags of burger king in the teeny tiny laundry room garbage? OUT! Can’t dry your clothes without throwing 50 dryer sheets all over the laundry room in places it seems impossible you could have reached? OUT! I am placing my first ban on the guy who likes to leave piles of grass in the machines every sunday, who is with me?!

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