I live in a building where it's a shared, paid laundry. There are 2 washers and 2 dryers. The washers take about 30mins, and the dryers 60mins. We have assigned laundry times Mon-Fri, and Sat-Sun are first come, first serve. The hours of the laundry room are 8am-10pm (the door isn't locked, it's just a courtesy for people who live in the hallway where the laundry is).
I went down to put laundry in tonight about 7:30pm. I put loads in both washers. The dryers were both on as well. One doesn't have a timer clock, but the other one had about 20mins left. I came back at 8pm and the dryer with no clock was still going, and the one that had said 20mins now said 50mins, so I figured that whomever was using it was running their clothes through twice, as I was using both washers so it wouldn't have been a fresh wet load unless it had come from somewhere else. I had a third load of laundry so I put that one in while I waited for the dryers.
The person using the other dryer came in and took her stuff out. I put in my stuff to be dried. The other dryer had about 15mins left on it by this time. I decided to stay in the room and put both dryers on at the same time so I wouldn't have to come back and forth.
At about 8:40pm the dryer stopped. I waited 5mins, no one showed up. I finally started the one dryer at about 8:45pm. I continued to wait, thinking that the person would be coming soon to take out their stuff. Finally at 9pm, no one had come, and I knew that the dryer would take an hour, and I needed to be done as close to 10pm as possible, so I took their stuff out of the dryer and put it on top (there was no basket) of the dryer. It wasn't totally dry; but I figured I had waited long enough and it appeared that the stuff had been through the dryer twice.
So, what would you have done?
Is it ok to remove someone elses' stuff from a machine if they don't?
How long is an appropriate time to wait?
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