May 24, 2005

How to Be an Annoying Neighbor

Leave your enormous piles of dirty laundry in the basement for two full weeks, so that no one else can use the table space normally available. When I place some of your laundry in my laundry basket to create space, take my basket to your apartment and keep it for a week (I'd still like that back, by the way). When you start to finally wash your laundry, and I now need to do mine, and I kindly transfer what appears to be the final load of your clothing from the washer to the dryer - and pay for it - don't return the favor. When you find my nice clean whites in the washer in the morning, transfer them to the dirty table - which is half covered in your laundry, still - and proceed to do your own laundry without regard to mine, which is this very moment beginning to smell moldy, meaning I will need to wash it again.
Do all of this while you are A FAMILY OF THREE NOT REALLY LIVING IN THE BUILDING, ONLY STAYING HERE TEMPORARILY, AND THEREFORE NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE USING THE GODDAMN MACHINES, and do it WHEN I'M ON MY FUCKING PERIOD, MISSING MY BOYFRIEND, AND STRESSED OUT.

I understand you're going through a rough time. Really, I do. You wouldn't be staying here if you weren't. And thus, maybe you really can't afford to shell out the 75 cents to dry my clothing in addition to doing your own. But really, you should have 75 cents, because I paid for your drying time yesterday. All that aside, I understand you're going through a rough period. My point is this: you do not live in this building normally, and I can only assume (I know... I shouldn't) that this living situation is temporary. My only request, while you are a guest in this building, is that you respect those of us who do and have paid rent to live here for the last two and a half years, and either do your laundry when the machines are clearly not in anyone else's use, or TAKE IT TO THE LAUNDROMAT, where you can get it done in under two hours and thus not leave the afore-mentioned enormous piles for two weeks. Did I mention I'd like my basket back?

But, hey. At least you emptied the garbage pail. Thanks for that, seriously. As for the rest of it...
I really, really hope this is only a temporary situation.

Posted by stephanie at May 24, 2005 11:24 AM
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Mommy will be there soon! Hang in there!
XOXOX
Mom

Posted by: Becky at May 24, 2005 04:43 PM