Goddamnit. I freaking hate people sometimes.

[Lyric]

We don't have a functioning dryer in our house, so in order to do laundry, we wash clothes here and then put the wet stuff into a bag and carry it to the laundromat that's about a quarter-mile up the hill from us. The bag we use is a duffel bag that's meant for carrying hockey gear, so it's enormous. It's also a "Nike" brand bag (we bought it two years ago for a trip to Florida) so we've always been careful to tuck the bag away into one of the pay-lockers in the room while the clothes are drying; it cost us $60, and we both know damned well that there are idiots who'll steal anything with a Nike logo on it.

And that is precisely what happened. ThinkBlue1966 went up to go retrieve our laundry from the dryer, and found that our clothes had been pulled out of the dryer and scattered everywhere, the trash can had been overturned, and every single locker had been thrown open and/or broken into. Of course, the asshole(s) stole our bag.

I am so freaking MAD right now. That was the only bag we had, other than our backpacks, which aren't nearly big enough to carry laundry in (unless you want to make four trips up that hell-hill a day.) We had to use trash bags to get the laundry home, and of course they developed holes and tears on the way home, so now they're useless for anything else. Dammit, we're struggling enough as it is, and we didn't need this crap. We don't have time to sit up there and guard our stuff for hours at a time--we're both trying to find jobs.

I know it probably seems small in the grand scheme of things, but it's really a big deal for us. Trash bags that are "good" enough to carry wet laundry in without breaking are expensive, and another duffel bag (even a non-Nike one) of that size is also going to be expensive, and I am just so mad I could scream. :grr:

Oh yes--when ThinkBlue1966 reported the theft/vandalism to the park managers (the laundromat is owned by our mobile home park) they expressed their sympathies and then pointedly reminded us of their "No Liability" clause. We pointedly informed THEM that they need to put a damned camera in there. :grr: