Today, I did my laundry in my dorm. After dragging 2 hampers down 4 flights of stairs, my ID card with money on it was rejected. After dragging it back upstairs, I scrounged up enough quarters from friends. 30 minutes after finally starting my laundry, I realized I forgot to add detergent. FML
I agree, your life sucks (16713) - you totally deserved it (31159)
On 05/01/2009 at 5:15pm - health - by CollegeGirl (woman) - United States (Maryland)
i think everyone has a college laundry experience. mine involved having my underwear stolen (serious. not kidding whatsoever)... bizarre, but it seems to be common for girls
If your clothes weren't filthy I'm sure they still came out wearable all the water used and cycles that they go through in a machine. I've done that on purpose cos I've had no detergent but then I am a dirty hippie :)
#6 - On 05/02/2009 at 4:57am by dirtyhippie
I agree with #8. If you wanna find a husband one day you should learn to clean his clothes!
#9 - On 05/02/2009 at 5:40am by fatfaceunited
FAIL.
But you will be stronger carrying around your washing.
#10 - On 05/02/2009 at 5:44am by Obfuscation
The only bit that's possibly your fault is forgetting to add detergent, and that is a very easy mistake to make. Half the time I try to do laundry I have to stop the machine and start over because I've forgotten to add detergent.
#12 - On 05/02/2009 at 6:25am by boatiebanter
Damn that sucks I hope I don't experience that when I go to college
&& can someone tell me what "fail" means ?
seriously 13 you don't know what fail means? it means you failed. at whatever is being discussed, or life in general. i think that's pretty obvious.
community washers/dryers are awful...in my old apartment building someone once used bleach and i guess there was still a residue of it left behind or something, because several of my things wound up with bleach stains on them. makes you really appreciate when you have your own house and laundry facilities.
#16 - On 05/02/2009 at 8:06am by fretforyerlatte
#13, the term 'fail' (sometimes prefaced by 'epic', or the context of the situation, e.g in this instance 'laundry fail') is used to mock an individual for their incompetence in a particular incident or situation.
I'm such a nerd.
I'm so glad the washers and dryers at my school are free.
#19 - On 05/02/2009 at 9:36am by obscureabyss867
Hey! Begging win!!!
My experienced advice...try not to wait until you have multiple hampers of laundry. Things can get ugly fast.
#20 - On 05/02/2009 at 9:46am by parkaypark
#20 has it right. waiting until you're on your last pair of clean underwear never ends well...
#22 - On 05/02/2009 at 10:53am by blushinFML
My chem prof maintains that people use way more detergent than is actually needed. So much, in fact, that there's residual detergent left in our clothes after washing. If you wash your clothes fairly regularily and nothing was too soiled, that residual detergent should have been enough to at least get them smelling clean again.
dear #9, go die.
also OP, why didn't you leave your clothes and go upstairs by yourself to go get quarters? i doubt your dirty laundry will be stolen in less than 5 minutes.
That happened to me a lot when I was in college. Now I ate ramen for months in order to afford my washer and dryer, but I did and dont regret because I refuse to go to laundrymats anymore..lol.
#29 - On 05/02/2009 at 12:50pm by brazillianbabe
This sounds like me forgetting to turn the water on when I use the dishwasher... lol
#30 - On 05/02/2009 at 2:04pm by ZuraLasgeon
Lol, that truly sucks.
I can understand the OP forgetting the detergent after all they went through, but for those that said they do this regularly, how do you do that? Slow down and THINK when you are doing something instead of always rushing!
ive done that before...luckily when i was leaving i realized I forgot the detergent, and so I added it right before the water washing it into the machine turned off!
#33 - On 05/02/2009 at 3:48pm by skimmingirl
YDI. Doing laundry isn't hard. I don't care if you just started college, I've been washing my own stuff since junior high. If a 14 year old can figure it out on her own SO CAN COLLEGE STUDENTS.
#35 - On 05/02/2009 at 4:22pm by missus_butter
#35: SHUT THE FUCK UP, she knows how to do the laundry you jack, if you passed reading comprehension you would see that it says that with all of the rushing she forgot to get her detergent.
#36 - On 05/02/2009 at 4:29pm by ohhhhshizzz
I actually forget to add detergent pretty often. The good thing is there's usually enough residual detergent left in the line that it's not too big of a deal.
How unfortunate. lol That is why you always go home when you run out of clean clothes and hopefully your mommy or daddy will do it :]
Oh and btw #9, men are fully capable of doing laundry as well.
i dont know how many times ive done that! after dragging clothes up and down stairs for an hour you just kinda forget to grab the detergent and just want to get the whole thing over with. it happens to the best of us lol
#40 - On 05/02/2009 at 8:59pm by Melodyfire
uhh 39, some people actually leave home when they go to college, because, you know, they have hopes and dreams to fulfill out in the real world. not all college students have their parents to do laundry for them, idiot.
It's pretty hard to do laundry when hung over, I'll attest to that! :P
I've done that before too :(
#45 - On 05/04/2009 at 1:34pm by lazorzpewpew
You can't open the door during the wash cycle on your machines? Every coin operated washer and dryer I've ever used runs on a timer, not the opening and closing of the doors. And also... at least they got mostly clean.
