Laundry sized drama

 Finding your clean clothes have been taken out of the dryers of your apartment complex and thrown onto a dirty counter is not a great start to a Saturday.

 Living in an apartment complex gives people the pleasure of sharing laundry facilities. You enter at your own risk. 

 Sometimes there is bleach left over in the washer from the previous user. Your clothes come out of the dryer with bleach stains. It's a surprise for your wallet. 

 Sometimes the washers or dryers are broken. So, you have to walk a mile to find ones that actually work. A nice surprise for your patience when you are carrying two loads and a heavy bottle of detergent.

 On this particular Saturday morning, I had two loads of laundry. On each apartment building there is a laundry room with two washers and two dryers. It was early enough not to worry about anyone wanting to use the laundry room on my building. So, I continued with my two loads.

 Of course, I was proven wrong on this theory.

 Usually, I set an alarm for when the laundry will be done. But, I was multi-tasking with breakfast. So, I waited an extra couple of minutes to get the laundry out of the dryers.

 When I went down to the laundry room, I found that both of my clean, dry loads of laundry had been piled on a counter opposite to the dryers. 

 Someone had taken my clothes out of the dryers and started their own loads. According to the timer on the dryers, it was only two minutes prior to my arrival. 

 If this person would have waited two minutes, this whole situation could have been avoided.

 I threw my laundry into my laundry basket and took it up to my apartment, cussing the whole way. After placing the laundry into the apartment, I stormed back down to the laundry room, opened the bottom dryer, slammed it shut, and wondered how this person will like wet clothes. 

 I know I reacted very childish, but I would never take someone’s clothes out of a dryer and leave them on a counter. If I was in that much of a hurry, there is another laundry facility on the next building a couple feet away.  

 In 2007, a man was arrested for stealing women’s underwear out of several apartment laundry facilities in Washington. An employee at one of the apartment complex's called the police and explained the man's suspicious behavior. The employee also provided a license plate number. 

 

 Police removed 93 pounds of underwear out of 24-year-old Garth Flaherty’s bedroom. Flaherty was charged with one count of first-degree theft, 12 counts of second-degree theft and was sent to jail.

 Even though none of my underwear was stolen, it still grossed me out that someone had touched them.

 If they had been stolen, I wouldn’t want them back.

For the full story on Flaherty visit http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/193232/man_steals_over_1500_items_of_womens.html?cat=52