I've never been yelled at for doing laundry, until today. Let me give you a little background:

In my condo building almost no one has laundry in their unit so we all get to share the five washers and five dryers in the basement. Normally most days are pretty calm and you can get away with using three or four washers and dryers no problem, even though it's advertised that you're only supposed to use two. Sundays are busy, of course.

Today I determined that I needed more socks in the worst way so I took two loads of laundry down and started them in the washers. When I came back after half an hour there was only a single dryer that was completely clear, one that had clothes in it that were done and three that were still in the middle of their cycle. The one that was done was simply displaying the "$1.00" message instead of the "0 minutes" message which is indicative on the load being done for some time (I don't know, 5 minutes or more?).

I proceeded to take the load that was there and put it on the folding table and load my two loads up. Just as I was leaving a dude came in and went for the table and I started apologizing that I had just taken out his load. Obviously if I had known he would have come within 60 seconds I wouldn't have dumped his load on the table, ya'know?

He then gave me an earful about he's the most dutiful laundryman in the building and it must have been just a few minutes of the dryer being done. The counter-argument that I had no idea when or if someone would lay claim to the load fell on deaf ears. The argument that at some point I needed to free up the washer that was in use by me had no merit to him. The fact that all the other dryers were still operating was apparently illogical.

I apologized in advance; I did my best to explain my thought process. I'm sorry your towels spent 60 seconds on the clean folding table. The only thing you accomplished is proving that some people are just douche bags about their laundry.

Sigh.