Recently I have had a few rather awkward situations regarding the laundry facilities in my apartment complex, I'll start with the less awkward of the two stations and ease into the awkwardness.
Situation 1: Abandoned Laundry: I typically do my laundry very late at night because I work nights, so I'm up anyway on my days off and then I don't have to fight for use of the only washer and dryer in my building. Except of course when my neighbors forget to take their laundry out of the dryer and then it sits for hours, sometimes for days. So I've started just putting the abandoned laundry on top of the dryer and hoping who ever abandoned their laundry comes back to claim it. As much as I feel like a jerk for moving mystery neighbor's abandoned laundry, I feel they are being a bit of a jerk by leaving the laundry in dryer and so they have forced my unneighborly actions and thus my jerkishness is a moot point.
Situation 2: Accidentally abandoned laundry...that somehow gets mixed in with my laundry. There is this odd little spot under the lint catcher thing in the dryer where small things get stuck, my socks have a habit of getting stuck under that little spot and disappearing forever. Well the other day when folding my laundry I found a pair of very cute black undies that probably where hiding in the dryer lint nook when I put my clothes in the dryer, they look very much like something I would own but I'm quite certain they are not mine because they are the wrong size and I have never purchased underwear from The Gap. Although I may in the future, they are incredibly soft. But I now have in my possession a pair of my neighbor's underwear, so what the hell do I do with them? Do I put them back in the laundry room and hope that they make it back to their rightful owner like someone did with one of my lost socks the other day? Do I throw them out because attempting to find their rightful owner could mean asking my neighbors the question "are these your underwear?" Do I pin them to the bulletin board in the laundry room and risk shaming their owner but increase the chance that they will be found? Until I decide exactly what to do I think they will live in my laundry basket with the socks that are missing their mate, all hopelessly abandoned under the dryer lint holder.
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