My Twin

In my building's laundry room there are two machines.  Well, there are four but it's two washers and two driers so, you know, two machines... of... each.

I usually use two washers at a time, one for darks and one for lights but I was getting low on socks n stuff and didn't feel like doing a dual wash and had enough for just a dark load and so off I went to the laundry room with my basket of dirties.  And there was a neighbour filling up one machine and ordinarily I would have left and come back but since I was only using ONE machine this time, I decided to wait until he was done loading (so I wasn't crowding him) and then put my laundry in the other machine.  I wished him a good morning or something like that and mentioned that we'd both had the same idea at the same time.

Our loads were within five minutes of each other and I set my reminder timer for another two minutes after that and I figured I wouldn't see him but when I went down to get my laundry out of the washer there he was!  I made some sort of joke and waited until he was done loading the drier and then transferred my stuff.

I try to check my dryer mid way through the cycle and adjust from there (change the heat setting if need be, take out anything big that's already dry, shake out stuff that might be stuck in something else... I'm looking at YOU fitted sheet!  although you weren't involved in this scenario, being a light/white wash thing and all.)

So I confess that while it had been amusing to run into the neighbour twice, I didn't feel like doing it a third time so I waited an extra couple of minutes after my "drier's ready" alarm went off because surely he'd have been finished by then... having started a few minutes before me and all....

But you guys?  It was actually hilarious because maybe he did the same thing or something because when I did to down to grab my laundry out of the drier, there he was.  Ha.  I told him we were now "laundry BFFs" (because I forget that's what's funny in my head maybe doesn't make sense to people who don't already know me!!!) and we made minor small talk about chores being done now and then at almost the same time as he was leaving we both said "have a good one" and half of me nearly died but half of me is like MY TWIN LIVES IN THE BUILDING WE ARE IDENTICAL but thankfully *that* thought stayed inside my head but yeah, that was a funny little moment and if I were a decade or so younger it might totally have been the start of a great romance movie (but I feel like he's probably living here with his adorable girlfriend anyway but yeah.)

So, yeah, that's the story of how I somehow managed to have IDENTICAL laundry timing to one of my neighbours even while actively trying not to.