Communal laundry machines are no one’s friend. Well, possibly the environment’s friend. And possibly the friend of the inconsiderate goon who gets to parasite his way to cleanliness.
We share our laundry facilities with a number of other apartments. One washer. One dryer. The machines take only loonies and quarters (1 loonie, 2 quarters to wash; 1 loonie to dry). Fairly reasonable cost, but very /specific/ coin requirements. We also don’t live on the same floor as the laundry machines. In fact we are a number of flights of stairs away. And I have knee issues which make extra trips up and down stairs actually pretty unpleasant.
So I, rather obviously but brilliantly I thought, left a little stash of loonies and quarters down in the basement, so that I would never again get all the way down there and then realize I hadn’t brought the right change. Obvious. Brilliant.
/Unless/…
…you have neighbours who ‘steal’. To be fair, at least one neighbour who uses my stash of coins replaces them with twonies and dimes and such. But I have no doubt that there is somebody(s) else who use the stash but do not do a 1:1 swap. Actually, I rather suspect that they do a 1:0 swap.
Fekkers.
All that to gloss right past the point that they have no compunctions just using the coins which /suddenly appeared one day in a little container and which they know are not theirs/. Who does that? I mean, I could see doing it once, if I was desperate or… and I would most certainly replace the money I had taken. But this is becoming constant — to the point where there is almost ne’er a loonie or quarter to be seen (though a weird quantity of pennies).
Maybe I should start random laundry-related tithing. Sneak downstairs mid-cycle and sneak a sock or two off the top of their folding…