Good advice, and it applys after college, too. I live in an apartment building where, until I put up a VERY strongly worded (multiple f-bombs and a couple mf-bombs) and vaguely threatening note in the laundry room, some of my neighbors would leave their stuff in the dryer for HOURS on end, and on the one occasion that I know of where someone (the nice older lady down the hall from me) removed someone's unattended laundry and nicely placed it on the table next to the dryer after waiting two hours, she returned to find her own laundry in the waste bin. Yeah, basically, keep track of the time or don't have a hissy fit when someone moves your stuff.

that's terrible. i remember once in our old apartment building, some jerk apparently put a load in and then went off to work for the day. my landlord happened to stop by that day and i told him about it, and even he told me to remove them. and there they sat, while i did 2 or 3 entire loads of laundry. later that day i heard someone go into the laundry room (my apt was right by it) and even then they were slamming shit around angrily because their stuff had been moved. people really think they can leave stuff hours on end when there are only 2 washers & dryers for a whole building...definite pet peeve of mine, and so happy to have our own now!

I had that problem in my last apartment too. People would leave stuff in there for hours and get mad when their stuff was moved. I would hear them screaming about it since my unit was right beside the laundry room. To make things worse, we only had ONE washer and ONE dryer. I always made sure to get back to the laundry room a few minutes before my cycle was over.

I once lived in an apartment building that had 4 apartments and a big shared basement, with washer/dryer hookups for each apartment. Everyone had their own corner and their own washer and dryer. I started noticing that my detergent would run out faster, and that one of my bottles of bleach went missing and mysteriously ended up next to another person's washer. Like I wouldn't figure out who it was (the corners were labeled with the apartment numbers!) I left them a nasty note about how stealing isn't very nice, and started locking up my detergents in my storage locker after that. Some people are just very rude and don't care about how their behavior affects others. If you don't want your laundry left on the floor, table, or top of the dryer, you're going to have to either set a timer so you can get it right when it's done, stay down there with it, or leave your laundry basket in front of/on top of the washer or dryer so whoever needs to use it can put your laundry in your basket rather than on the floor. As for the OP: tape that note up in your laundry room, with a new note saying "LAUNDRY PISSER: I wasn't the one who moved your clothes asshole!" Maybe the guy will feel a LITTLE guilty.

"laundromat etiquette" doesn't mean shit in a dorm. if you're enough of a douchebag to leave your clothes in a dryer for an extended period of time, expect to have it moved. regardless, the OP didn't TOUCH the other person's clothes, he clearly stated that the clothes had ALREADY been placed on top of the dryer when he got there.

the person was not using the machine, genius! There clothes has been previously taken out because they were already dry! You make it seem like there clothes were laying up there holding his spot or something.. :::rolls eyes:::So take your laundry mat etiquette and stfu