First of all, the drivers. MY GOD, THE DRIVERS! The drivers are probably the #1 worst thing about New Jersey. Everything is in a goddman hurry all day, every day. I've never literally almost gotten into wrecks as often as I do here. It's an almost daily occurance. It never happened this frequently in Kansas City. No wonder New Jersey has the highest car insurance rate in the whole damn country. People are very aggressive with the driving. And the honking when traffic is at a standstill? Yeah, that's totally helps. Also, ya know when you are driving down a road and you see a sign that says "Right lane ends, merge left" (or vice versa). New Jersey drivers translate that as "I'll just keep driving in this lane and cut people off, because I'm an asshole." This is one piece of evidence to prove my point of New Jersey being full of inconsiderate people.
Something happened today that kind of inspired this blog post. And it may sound silly. But it involves laundry. Yes, laundry. So, we live in an apartment complex. The apartments do not have washer/dryer hook-ups so there are laundry facilities for our use. Basically, there is a laundry facility for our part of the complex and then another facility for the other part of the complex about 1/2 block down the road. Each facility has 8 washers, 8 dryers. Nothing fancy, but it's sufficient for weekly laundry use. Until today, we have never had any issues doing our laundry or having to wait or anything like that. But here's what happened today...
We went down there around 2:30 and there were only 2 washers free. We were washing our sheets and blankets today so we had about 5 loads of laundry (a little more than usual). So, we decided to come back a little later. Around 3:15, all of the washers/dryers were full. So, we figured around 4 we will come back. We did go back at 4 and there were 4 washers available, so we started our laundry. We still needed one more, but we noticed that the other washers were done, so we waited for the people to come down and put their laundry in the dryers so we could start our last load.
First of all, we waited for 20 minutes until the people FINALLY decided to come get their laundry. I think that is one of the rudest things you can do. Just let your laundry sit there like you're some kind of asshole. Like you are better and other people don't need to do their laundry. I mean a Sunday afternoon is peak laundry time. So anyway, they came down with MORE laundry. What they did was fill 4 washers, put their baskets on top of the washers to "save" them. When they came back they had 4 more loads of laundry. And at this point took all of the washers and the rest of the dryers. At this point, my blood starts to boil. If you have 8+ loads of laundry, GO TO THE LAUDROMAT. I think it is the most inconsiderate thing I've seen. The point of a laundromat is that they have tons of washers and dryers for people just like yourselves to use. And not only did they have all of this laundry, THEY LET IT SIT!!
So by this time, the 4 loads of laundry we had started were done and there were zero dryers to use. Then, this other bitch that lives in our complex comes to get her clothes out of the dryer. It was perfect timing. She already had her baskets out. I figured she'd see that we were waiting, get her clothes and go. No. This bitch decides that she needs to fold her clothes IN the room. Not only that...but SHE FOLDED THEM ONE ARTICLE AT A TIME. I'm not even kidding. She would take one article of clothing out of the dryer, walk it to the table, fold it and go back. We do not live in a huge complex. She could have easily put her shit in a basket, gone to her apartment and took 5 hours to fold her laundry as far as I could have cared. So, at this point, I'm super fucking pissed. And I start complaining. Maybe they heard me, maybe they didn't.
So, Sean and I go to the other facility to finish our laundry. We finally did get our clothes washed and dry. The other facility was empty. As of 8pm, the assholes that had 20 loads of laundry were STILL doing laundry. Seriously. 6 hours worth of laundry? You assholes go to the laundromat. Why would you take up all of the machines, on a peak day at peak time, when clearly other people needed to use them. It's seriously probably top 5 of most inconsiderate things I've ever seen. And then the lady was giving me drity looks back to the dirty looks I gave her. REALLY?? You can't understand why I was glaring at you and blatantly talking about you while you were in the room? And furthermore, if they do their laundry once every 6 months, what the fuck does their apartment look like?? Gross.
So what did Sean and I learn? That our complex is full of assholes and that we will now be using a laundromat.
Gee, I hope you don't think we're ALL assholes!! Trust me, we aren't all like that. Although driving in NJ is a major pain in the ass. And as bad as it is in Central Jersey - it escalates as you go north. I'm sure you notice when you head up to Kean. And I know you and Sean drove into NYC for your Lasik - ha, there its even WORSE, right?? Long Island too. Brutal, brutal, brutal driving in that area.
ReplyDeleteAnd concerning the laundromat - agree, complete jerks. And stuff like that ticks me off whenever I see it too. Like when Kim and I meet for lunch sometimes we'll go to Costco because they have cheap food. So we go in, wait in line and then get our food/drinks - go to sit down and there is nowhere to sit. Mostly because a few of the table have people with no food saving seats for when someone else in line comes back - and its usually some old person. So we're stuck standing there with food in hand waiting - sometimes as much as 5-10 minutes when we only have an hour for lunch. That is one of my biggest per peeves ever!! I wonder if this too is only an Asshole State phenomenon??