‘Don’t mess with my laundry': Resident bleaches neighbor's clothes after they mess with her laundry, neighbor moves out

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    Font - Posted by u/jay7171 19 hours ago Laundry revenge I used to live in an apartment building with too few laundry rooms. There was a single washer/dryer set per floor with roughly 10-12 units in a 3 story building.
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    Font - On the weekends when I had the free time I'd do laundry. It seemed like the ground floor laundry was always busy so I'd carry everything upstairs to the second floor.
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    Font - I set a timer on my watch so I could be back before the load was finished so others could use the washer quickly. All the washers were top loaders too.
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    Font - One weekend I found my sopping wet, soapy load on the floor with the final minutes of my cycle counting down. I was irritated and just carried it to another washer. I am conflict avoidant as I usually overreact.
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    Font - The same thing happened the following weekend. And again after that. I know I should have just hauled my laundry up to the 3rd floor but that was ridiculous.
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    Font - I found out from neighbors that there was a confrontational woman who had become notorious for doing this. We guessed that she didn't want to pay to do her laundry. She must've thought watching for
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    Font - neighbors starting a load and rushing in to swap her stuff in was a great cost cutting idea. It happened one final time and I went white hot. I carried my soapy, sopping wet load back to my apartment and returned
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    Font - with a bottle of bleach. I emptied it into the washer. I barely noticed that it was a colored load. I wasn't close enough to hear it but according to neighbors she discovered what happened and
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    Font - went into an expletive laced rage. She started pounding on doors screaming at people. The apartment manager was called to deal with her. Very shortly afterwards the woman
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    Font - moved out. The neighbors were glad to see her gone. Nobody knew it was it was me. I know I ought to have talked to her but f kit.
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    Font - Capital Potato751 17 hr. ago The one time someone messed with my load of laundry I was pi d. Someone had emptied out the dryer while my clothes were in there and swapped their clothes. I simply gathered up everything in
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    Font - the dryer, walked over to the balcony and tossed their entire load over the side. People learn quick not to mess with other people's stuff at the barracks. Reply Share 507
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    Font - BenCaxton 15 hr. ago This happened to me in a college dorm laundry room several times. Some "poor college student" (we all were equally poor) had several times removed my clothes from a washer to get a free wash on my
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    Font - dime. After it happened several times, I had had enough. I certainly considered dumping bleach, but I thought ruining his clothes was a nuclear escalation when he hadn't destroyed my clothes, only stole the cost of a wash. So instead I waited for the
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    Font - cycle to be finished then dumped dry powered detergent over his wet clothes. That way his clothes weren't ruined, but he would be forced to pay the money for another wash cycle to rinse the detergent out, as karma for the wash cycle cost he picked from my pocket.
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    Font - missannthrope1 +2 . 14 hr. ago I lived in an apt building. Went to take my clothes out of the dryer and they were still wet. I thought the dryer must be broken so I moved them to the other dryer. Then I noticed there was a child's knit hat in my load that was dry. I left it in the laundry room then
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    Font - watched from my window. A neighbor came out from her apt, went to the laundry room and retrieved the hat. Then I realized she had taken my wet clothes out of the dryer, put her clothes in, and dried them on my dime. I told the manager saying I didn't want to
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    Font - make a big deal out it, but the manager got mad and said she did the same thing to her and evicted her. So this woman get kicked out because she wouldn't pay a dollar to dry her clothes. 154 Reply Share
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    Font - DubsAnd49ers • 19 hr. ago Well her clothes were clean and thoroughly disinfected! 353 Reply Share
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    Font - Zoreb1 +2. 19 hr. ago You don't talk to someone like that as it wasn't an accident; it was done on purpose. If you do, then when someone goes get revenge, you take the brunt of her wrath. 178 Reply Share

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