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Stopped our local laundromat to dry some items and noticed the one and only huge SQ front loader was "out of order".

Asked the clerk on duty what happened, and she related the following story:

Female (older woman) loaded the machine (rather packed is a better word),with so many heavy items that when the machine began to spin it literally based itself silly.

Now this is a uber-sized washer, rated for fifty pounds, IIRC, and am at a loss to know what was stuffed in there to have caused such damage. Normally it takes months for washers to be repaired at this place, so everyone else is now out of luck.

Sometimes you really just want to bash people over the head with a cricket mallet! *LOL*
 
I had to use the local laundromat the first three months I lived here. One time, a woman came in with two laundry baskets and stuffed all of it in a top-loading Speed Queen--literally cramming it in with all her might---then poured some powdered detergent over the top and took off.

I opened the lid a few minutes into the wash cycle and the poor machine was struggling to agitate. I was almost finished folding my clothes and ready to leave, so I stopped the machine and poked my head in the manager's office and told him to come out and have a look. Man, he was pissed off! And rightfully so.

I would have LOVED to hear what he had to say to the woman when she returned.
 
Thats what I hate about our laundromats here, it taken them FOREVER to fix anything. I will say though that when the big machines do break, they get those fixed pretty quickly as those are big money makers for them. Our laundry has 3 Dexter 25# machines and 3 Dexter 40# machines, 32 SQ toploaders. Right now 9 of those toploaders are broken. One has been broken for 4 years, 2 for 2 1/2 years, and a couple others are approaching a year. One was actually down for 5 1/2 years, which just recently got fixed, worked for a month and broke down again last week. ARGH, it drives me nuts.
 
It's a business expense...and with other machines running, would assume it's the last thing on the list to spend money on. I find most laudromat owners are horribly stingy on repairing things. But it doesn't shed good light on their business. People at laundromats drive me nuts. Well, ANYONE who does laundry improperly (like my sis) drives me nuts...she's of the stuff community as well. A R G H !
 
Don't people realize that stuffing a machine like that won't get anything clean, and if anything can damage not only the machines, causing an inconvenience for others, but can damage their clothes as well. Some people just have NO common sense.
 
Un-Educated Consumer

Some people were just never taught the proper way to do laundry. No offense, but I find more women today don't know what they are doing compared to men. Several women can't cook either. What were their mothers doing?

Malcolm
 
I replaced the dogs on a friends Whirlpool, and she was a "stuffer". I told her that her clothes aren't getting clean, it's hard on both the machine and her clothes. Whether she is still a "stuffer" I don't know, since we aren't friends anymore.

She had no clue as how to properly load her washer and she washed everything in cold water including whites. Some people are just clueless when it comes to laundry.
 
Haha coïncidence or not...

few minutes back, I came downstairs finding our dryer still on... Normally I takes an our and a half to do dry things (normal with this extremly cold weather...), but after tree hours the dryer was still running. When I opened the door the machine was crammed with laundry, there was hardly any place for the air to pass trough! The dryer was too hot to touch and I just could not believe it... on of my brand new shirts just shrunk... I guess even my mom does not know how to do laundry :-s
 
Always enjoy the laundromat stories.
When I was at the shelter a few weeks ago they had a new woman doing laundry with the Unimac machine. She would load it so full and then she'd use her foot to compress it all so she could stuff in more. I told her that nothing is going to get clean like that, and one of the reasons we are washing all the per bedding, surgical laundry is to prevent the spread of disease.
She told me she was told to pack the machine like that. So I corrected her and loaded the machine myself to show her how it's done. What was her response? "If I load it like that, I'll be here all day!" There is the point right there!
 
When I worked at the hotel my roommate managed I used 4 shredmores, and the other housekeeper were constantly overloading them and when I pointed this out they said who care if they break down, I'm not paying for it, and the other response I got was if I don't do it this way it will take all day to do the laundry. No wonder the poor machines died. I won't even pack the Frigidaire front loader. It's just common sense to me not to overload washers and dryers.
 
Laziness........

that's what it boils down to. People just want to get it over and done with as soon as possible. But they have the nerve to complain about a stain not coming out, a shirt getting ripped or everything so horribly wrinkled that they now have to either take the time to iron it, or throw it back in the dryer for an hour.
 
Uber FL Marketing...

as it seems, has built the myth that with our huge capacity machine, you can just stuff it and go. Too bad for the general public.

Malcolm
 
Some don't care how long it takes!

I've mentioned before how one woman in my complex starts the fill on all eight machines, then lifts the lid to stop the cycle and proceeds to pre-treat EVERY item she puts in. Dab, splash, squirt, rub, dunk, brush, rinse, inspect, repeat. I call her PTCleanser (har!), but seriously, she ties up the machines for HOURS doing this. Too bad for you if you get there 5 minutes behind her - just go home and come back another day. Annoyingus Maxximus!
 
Oh I HATE that!

It's like pretreat your stuff at home like normal people and at least leave a few washers open so others can get theirs done too! Especially the ones who will use every machine in the room, which is like 4 of them, then leave them sitting in there for an hour AFTER the cycle is done. I don't know how many fights I've gotten into with people who do this and got pissed off cause they found their laundry on top of the dryer so I could get mine in. It's like pay attention to time and have some freakin common courtesy and common sense!
 
Makes me all the more thankful I have multiple working home washers...

There are two laundromats within 2 blocks of my home. I've used one, once, to wash a very large bulky item. But I was shocked at the prices. My next washer purchase will be a 4.0 plus front loader so I'm not even tempted to use the coin-op.
 
One of my "female" relatives used to OVERLOAD washers. I would stop by to visit and we would be on the sofa talking and the washer would beep, she would ask me to go put them in the dryer, when I opened that washer, there was NO WAY those clothes were clean. I flat out told her to stop PACKING the washer..those clothes aren't clean.....When you used a clean towel to dry off, you could sort of smell that "sour" smell .....UGH......You know what......She actually took my advice and no longer packs the washer...
 
I worked as kitchen help at a nursing home while going through high school. One evening (fourth of July) the night laundry person could not make it in. They asked if I could fill in. I said, "no problem." I should have thought again.

Some of the nursing aids had already started some laundry and put some in to dry.

I heard some odd thumping coming from inside the dryer. Can you guess what I found?

In with the sheets was a turd. That means it went through the wash cycle, into the dryer. Not to mention the odor when I opened the door of crap cooking.

That was many years ago and I was scarred for life.
 

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