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Originally Posted by FireFly

Working from home and planning to go out of town for the weekend, I needed to do a bit of laundry first. So I throw a load in the washer and start working meaning to get back on my first break or sooner if I can manage it. Well, I can't manage it so it's two hours later when I go to check on my laundry. Seems my neighbour came home in the time I was on the phone and decided she wanted to do laundry too. Well that's fine you say? She can just take your load out and put hers in... sure she can. Absolutely. But she doesn't just do that. No no, she puts my load in the dryer too. I suppose it's my fault for putting my change on the dryer, but I also put my laundry detergent on the laundry machine so people would know I wasn't done. Anyways, the point is, she shrunk half my load. I buy a lot of clothes that are hang to dry. You have to hang them for a reason. If you don't, they shrink. So now I have about $250 worth of clothes that now look like dung because someone decided to be helpful. You can't even get mad at a person for that! They were trying to be nice! And yet my new white skirt, my lime green twinset, my acovado green hoodie, all too small for me, and she also put my bras in the dryer! You'd think she'd know better! I'm so pissed. That was my favorite skirt, and she's ruined it. I think I can stretch out the sweaters, (which really isn't a great idea either, but I can't afford new stuff, so the only option I have,) but my white skirt looks like crap now. *sniff* So mad.

Actually you can get angry at your neighbor. It's pretty much an unwritten rule of shared washers and dryers that if you're moving someone elses stuff it must be A) done; and B) you don't put it in the dryer. When someone does something stupid while trying to be nice (and pre-empting your washing isn't nice to begin with), the stupid often has more sway than the nice.