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Just quit breaking the freaking laundry machine!

We only have 2 of them per floor. And two dryers.
I know it sounds petty, but it is irritating to feel the need to run out and check to see whether the machines are "working" before going through the preparations for doing the laundry. It's annoying to need to do laundry, to know that there are machines available to me, and then to have to drive down the road to use a laundromat because literally HALF the time, let me emphasize LITERALLY half the time, somebody has managed to break the machines.

Let me explain things you aren't supposed to do with laundry machines or dryers:

1. Use excessive amounts of ink.
I can understand that you might want to use a little ink. Because you're a damn moron. But using so much that it ruins the machine-washing experience for everybody is frowned upon by the entire public.
2. Jam so much junk into the machine that it bubbles over and explodes, leaving a mess on the floor and causing the machine to require repairs.
I can understand that you need to wash a lot of clothes, but sometimes we must be patient in order to do things right. Now that the washer is broken and your spin cycle never ran, you only have soapy clothes, and a lot of them, that you must somehow rewash/rinse, and now nobody can use the machine. You have made yourself into an impediment for everybody else in the apartment complex. Impediments that pose as people suck. I cannot remove you because I would go to jail, but isn't it bad enough that EVERYBODY wants you to die? This situation can be avoided.
3. Chop the power cords in half (then plugging it back in again)
I get it. They're there. And you have a cutting tool. But that doesn't make it right to ruin a machine down the hall. When I put money into a machine, wait for it to start, scour the area for a sign that says it doesn't work and then analyze it for problems just to find that some screw has unceremoniously sliced the power cord halfway down so that it looks like it's plugged in, yet there's only an exposed hot wire, I get pissed. Moreso when you slice the dryer cord and I end up having to carry a soaking, dripping load of clothes to another floor. You cost me my money. You left a hot wire exposed and hidden, which is deadly, and you did it at the expense of both yourself and your community. I always say that, on some levels, I can understanding hurting other people without cause, but yourself also? Next time you do something random, destructive and hurtful, try punching an innocent shark in the mouth.
4. Assault the machine with weapons or fists!
It's not a magical funbox.It isn't immune to your weapons. It will become damaged and rendered unusable. Who gave you those sticks and feet and whatever else anyway? Somebody needs some sort of license revoked.

Now, the price of using each machine has gone up by a quarter.
What's 50 cents, right? 1.50 to wash, 1.50 to dry. No sweat. 3 bucks.
The problem is that it's a massive increase! 1.25 to 1.50 is a 20% increase! And you will feel it. And I already feel it!
But I can take some solace in knowing that you will hate it. You will cry and moan. You will talk savagely to your peers about how our economy is broken and how the rich apartment people screw us over and how water should be free and how in the old days, the machines only cost 50 cents.
You will NEVER EVER EVER realize that the cost of these machines is directly proportional to the amount of times you have broken them, the amount of times the wealthy washing machine people have had to buy new machines and repair the damaged ones.
That small thing makes me feel just a little better. Even if you break the machines again. Even if I have to pay more, I will know that you will never understand why you must remain poor your entire life.
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