Holy god that was terrifying

[Jester]

Somebody in my apartment building definitely knows I'm ts.  See, they had their clothes in the washing machine for like... all day, so I decided that I would rather do my laundry than deal with this.  I took their stuff out and put mine in.  Got it into the dryer before them too.  So, seriously, they dropped the ball.  But yeah... they did the same thing to me... and I had panties, a tank, a really feminine long sleeve shirt, and a pair of jeans in there.  They totally saw all that, and my work clothes... so if they go to the mall... ever... they know who I am.  Not to mention I got downstairs, and there was who I assume to be the girl responsible playing with the washer.  I turned around and left, this was before I knew about this business, because I didn't want her seeing me grab my laundry.

Yeah.  Holy god that was terrifying.

[nathan]

Rude!

The Unwritten Rule of Apartment Laundry states as thus:
Any persons leaving their laundry in a dryer for more than 10 minutes after the dryer has stopped has officially boycotted their rights to not have the contents of said dryer emptied and made available for waiting tenants.

In other news, who knows if you've been outed or not.  You my have had a load running for your "roommate" or something.  If she's outed you, rock it with confidence.

My .02

[FairyGirl]

did she (or whoever) actually see you putting clothes in or out of the same washer? How would they know it was specifically you, and if they did know, what about it would make them care if it was you? If it ever became an issue which it probably never will, you could always just say you were washing a few things your girlfriend left at your apt. or whatever. Just because you know you're ts doesn't mean everyone is going to automatically come to that conclusion by seeing some panties in your laundry. Might have been terrifying, but probably nothing to panic about. 

[Suzy]

Awwww, one of the official hazards of apartment dwelling.  But hey, seeing male and female clothes being washed together does not mean anyone even remotely suspects anything going on.  She might just think you had a girlfriend over, or the clothes belong to a couple.  Being TS would be way down the list of probabilities anyone would naturally think of.  Rest easy!  Wash with confidence!


Kristi

[Jester]

Yeah.  Probably.  Unreasonable response.  Not normal for me.  But I'm usually much more careful than this.

Ever see the Showtime series Dexter?  That careful.

[tekla]

That's a bit over the top, would it be that hard for your neighbors to imagine you having a GF?  Don't sweat it, I doubt they thought twice about it.

[Alyssa M.]

I used to freak out about this. Nowadays, I figure they're more likely to figure it out by seeing me presenting in different gender roles one day than the next. *shrug*

Also, usually when I take clothes out of a dryer, I don't spend much time snooping to try to figure out whose it it. I have dragged plenty of loads of mixed-gender clothing out of dryers in my many years of apartment dwelling.

[kae m]

I had a similar incident, except it was my mom folding the clothes I left in the dryer, not realizing that I had left that half of my laundry in the dryer.  She never brought it up, and when I eventually came out to her she told me that she had somehow rationalized it in her mind that, while it wasn't expected, there were plenty of more likely and obvious explanations.
Don't worry about it, a random person in your building probably isn't even going to recognize who's clothes they were, let alone make that kind of assumption unless there's some obvious reason to - and if they do it's not like they set your clothes on fire in the trash bin, so they probably don't hate you.

[Michelle.]

You had a "friend" over for the night and offerred to wash her clothes for her?

How gentlemanly.

"Dude got game and class." Is at the top of the list of possibilities.

"Dude might be looking like a lady." Probably at the bottom of a list, that contains at least a dozen choices.


I would file this under, "don't sweat the small stuff."

Mich'

Post Merge: June 04, 2009, 10:38:53 PM

I also caught a Guy that I call Bluto dancing around with my panties on his head in the laundry room.

"Son, you got a panty on your head,"  Raising Arizona.

[tekla]

I also caught a Guy that I call Bluto dancing around with my panties on his head in the laundry room. My the surprised look in his eyes looking out of the leg holes

Boy, is my laundry experience boring.

[tekla]

We don't do crazy at all, we just write about it for others, life here is very normal.

[chrysalis]

Like most people said you're still scott free because there are a million other reasons why. Even in the rare circumstance where you are confronted though understand that your reaction to the question is what determines what they know. Furthermore if they find out, scary as it may be, your reaction to their knowing determines how much power they have over you.

If you act, convincingly, like it's no big deal, it won't be as big of a deal to them. It's similar to children who have dealt with sexual abuse. Often a big factor determining how they feel about their abuse is their parent's reaction to finding out they've been abused (i.e. act like its a big deal and sure enough it will be).

...or so I've read.

[Cindy]

I have a lovely lady who comes to my house once every 3 weeks to help clean. This is because of handicap problems to my wife.
She left a note once. " I cleaned off the lipstick from your bedroom water glass, Rebecca (my wife) hasn't been home for months, maybe it's hers'?"
I phoned that night and she was laughing. " Honey I've known ever since I met you 18 months ago" We are now close friends and she doesn't have a problem.
Cindy

[Linda]

If you act, convincingly, like it's no big deal, it won't be as big of a deal to them.  (i.e. act like its a big deal and sure enough it will be).

This I have to agree with. It reminds me of how I dealt with something similar sometime long ago. I was the foreman of a nursery field crew consisting of college boys and scofflaws at the time. They were the proverbial "tough crowd", to be sure.

One of the college kids asked, " Hey [my name], didn't you used to dress in girls clothes?"
I replied, with a wink and a nudge, 'That was before I was old enough to by my own booze'.

situation rectified.