This conversation actually happened between 3:05 and 3:07 p.m. today...
Me (waiting for unfamiliar young studly dude to pull laundry out of the dryer)...
Dude: "Uh, you waiting to use this?"
Me: "Yeppers."
Dude: (pulls laundry from dryer, starts to walk out of laundry room with armful of clothes)
Me: "Excuse me. You forgot to clean out your lint."
Dude: (laughing) "You're kidding, right? I'm a guest here. You can get that for me."
Me: "Uh, no, buddy. I don't think so. That's not just fabric fuzz, you know. It's also your dead skin and hair. You can remove it yourself. I don't work here, hon."
Dude: "I doubt it's my hair. I wash and comb my hair, lady. Anyway, I'm clean. Have a nice day."
Me: "Uh, no, bubba. I'm not talking about the brushable hair on your head. I have no interest in handling your butt and nut hair. Clean it out now."
Dude: "I don't know why this pisses you off so much. So it's got hair in it. It's laundered hair! It's clean."
Me: "It's laundered nut hair. And unless I'm married to you or paid to wash your clothes, I have no obligation to handle your butt and nut hair. Clean it out."
Dude: "I'm gonna tell my friend her neighbor is a bitch." (Returns to clean out what I'm uncharitably going to think of as "butt and nut hair" from now own.)
Me: "That would be fine. Be sure to tell her the bitch is Merujo in Apartment X. You know, the building security representative? And tell her to have a great day and that she might want to escort her visitors to the laundry room in future."
Dude: "..." (leaves, slamming door behind him.)
Dude: (from hallway) "Oh fuck."
But apparently, he has the cleanest nut hair in the county.
J'aime la "vie d'appartement!"
And God bless us everyone.
5 comments:
ROFL XD Butt and nut hair, indeed.
You know, it never would have occurred to me that the lint trap would have that sort of thing in it. Then again, I haven't used a communal laundry in quite some time. When we got our first apartment we rented a washer and dryer from the rental company (we were on the third floor with no elevator, and I didn't feel like lugging all our laundry up and down), and when we had to move here after the fire we bought our own. I used the apartment laundry at the old place once, when the machines we were renting were being serviced. Before that, the last time I had used a public-use laundry was in my first year of college (1996-97).
I'm starting to feel like a little fairy princess now...
You are my hero for standing your ground like this. Also, now I remember why I've never lived in an apartment building with communal laundry facilities.
Good for you for standing up to this jerk! You ROCK, Merujo!!
Butt & Nut Hair -- a delicious new high-fiber breakfast cereal!
Man - I never thought about the components of lint (until I lived with two cats).
Is it me, or do industrial dryers lack a lint trap? Otherwise I've never cleaned one after using it.
(Mind you - I've owned a house for 5 years, so it doesn't matter now.)
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