One of my bigger pet peeves is when people are just destructively selfish.
Today each time I came back to the laundry room, someone had taken my things out of the machine she (likely a she) wanted to use, and left it elsewhere in the laundry room. Once it was even mixed with someone else’s wet clothes.
When stuff like this happens to me, I blow it off; life is too short to be upset by other people’s stupidity. But I’ve been thinking—it’s not just me that this person does this to. Likely she’s a self-centered jerk who only cares about getting her laundry done, quickly. She could give a rip about anyone’s stuff. But she needs someone to harsh on her—to have a little reality crack into her self-focused world—so that next time she will give a rip about someone’s stuff. Unfortunately, that doesn’t work, because such people are so self-centered that they take criticism as the critic’s problem, not theirs. She’d just go on her merry way, leaving piles of other people’s wrinkling laundry behind her.
Until she’s assaulted in a public laundromat. Nah; I’m being too optimistic again.