<p>No, this isn’t the story I once told here how I met my hubby while doing the laundry in my dorm at the start of my freshman year. </p>
<p>Rather it is about my college soph D, age 17, who attends NYU (big dorm, an apt. building). Late tonight she calls. She had put a week’s worth of laundry in the washer and went to class and came back and voila, ALL of her clothes were taken. Lots of new clothes. Lots of clothes required for her dance classes too. She acknowledges that she should stay with the laundry though nobody does. She also has a schedule where she goes to school all day and rehearses, etc. all night, more than a typical college student. I think she has to find some time when she’d be in and can take work to the laundry room I guess. They took soaking wet clothing. She said she checked every washer and dryer and all of it was gone. She went back later and then there was a small pile of soaking wet stuff, what she says, they likely “rejected” some underwear or PJs, but all her clothing was gone. I wish she had reported it right away and I hope she does tomorrow. She says there are security cameras but she is not sure that the tapes are saved or just watched while in present time. She doesn’t want to waste our money to replace the stuff but it was a lot of stuff including things she needs to wear for classes. Ah, another saga in the life of a college student. Otherwise, things are good :). </p>
<p>Oh, Susan, I’m <em>SO</em> sorry to hear about your D’s bad laundry experience!!! How unnerving to lose so many pieces of clothing that she loved/needed…<em>sigh</em> I lost two of my favorite shirts in my college laundry room, and I thought <em>THAT</em> was bad. I <em>really</em> hope that they can find out who took them. You’d think someone would be TERRIFIED to wear stolen clothing anyway, so what’s the use?? {{{{{{{{hugs to your D and you}}}}}}}} ~berurah</p>
<p>Usually, security cameras record on a tape that’s on a continual loop. It will record for 24 hours or so before coming back to the beginning of the loop and re-recording over what was previously recorded, ad infinitum. That’s why the quality of convenience store surveillance video is so notoriously poor. The tapes just wear out, so to speak. In any case, if your D waits too long to report the theft, the recording of the deed will be forever erased by the more recent surveillance.</p>
<p>I’m always shocked by how people believe they are entitled to what doesn’t belong to them! I’m so sorry this happened to your D, Susan. But the thief has racked up some pretty bad kharma, I would imagine. I wouldn’t want to be that girl!</p>
<p>I am sorry. It does not surprise me at all. Somebody found a way to make a couple of bucks (perhaps by selling your D’s stolen clothes to a resale shop), or found a new wardrobe for themselves. Simply amazing, but not surprising to me.</p>
<p>My motto for the day is your daughter didn’t do anything wrong.
The thieves are the ones that did wrong. I do hope they get caught and punished. Perhaps having to go naked in an NYC winter would be suitable punishment.</p>
<p>(I just had an extremely expensive, delicate, perishable and irreplacable item shoplifted over the weekend. The thieves are the bad guys. The victims --in this case my distraught employees – are not the bad guys. That doesn’t negate feeling badly about it and changing tactics against the next time.)</p>
<p>Oh, what a pain in the pocketbook as well as in the neck! It probably won’t make your D feel better, but here is a laundry story. Thieves got into a friend’s hotel room and took away the clothes in her suitcase. The suitcase was left behind–it was a bit battered. The clothes they took happened to be her dirty laundry! Yuck…</p>
<p>Oh dear! The money aside, I can just imagine how much time it is going to take your daughter to go from store to store tracking down the items that she needs to replace. And it sounds as though with her schedule time is in short supply. Shame on whoever did this and a sympathetic hug for your daughter</p>
<p>Unbelievable. I wonder what she’ll do when she sees some of her clothing walking around on someone else? Does she have anything readily identifiable?</p>
<p>That stinks! I know the feeling too – US Air once stole all my kid’s clothes. It’s amazing how expensive and TIME CONSUMING it is to replace their clothes all at once.</p>
<p>How upsetting and what a pain! Will insurance cover any of it? S’s campus offers a laundry service, not unreasonably priced, but I hear that clothes often disappear there as well. We had the “laundry talk” before he left, ie don’t leave the laundry alone, bring a book to study, DO the laundry etc.</p>
<p>soozie, the EXACT same thing happened to my sister in an NYU dorm. She was on the crew for some show that night, and all of her black clothes were stolen. I think she ran to Kmart and stocked up on a few things, just to get through until she could do some real shopping. </p>
<p>It is a real bummer. My thought was, though, that if she was going to be a victim of a crime, then this was not so bad. No identity theft, no racing to cancel credit cards, and most importantly, no injuries or worse. I know your D has been through a lot injury-wise, so just think of this as an opportunity to buy some kickin’ new duds for her miraculously healed body!</p>
<p>I am sorry to hear that happened. soozie, and with probably no idea where to look, although to keep an eye out
You might be able to get away with leaving your wash unattended at a smaller school with smaller dorms, my D who has ADD, would forget to check on her laundry in the wash and would find them dry and folded on the table.
( I was thinking she had little elves-but I dont think anyone would have wanted her clothes anyway- she literally wore the same she had in high school)
For over a year while she was in college, we didn’t have either a washing machine or dryer and had to use a laundromat, but I wouldn’t have thought to leave my clothes unattended anymore than I would have thought to leave my car with the keys in the ignition, even if it would have saved time.</p>
<p>Its kind of funny that they “rejected” some of the clothes though, you would think if they were going to steal it, it would be easier to take the whole thing rather than go through it when it was soaking wet.</p>
<p>There may be some insurance coverage for loss, either through your homeowners or the dorm?
In any case I hope she contacted teh security office so you can take the loss off your taxes.</p>
<p>soozie~that’s terrible for your D!!! Maybe she can find a friend who wants to do laundry at the same time, and would be willing to watch her things while she runs on to class or practice. She might be able to do a favor for the friend in return. You want to be able to trust the people in your dorm about things–it’s hard to find out that there are some people who can never be trusted about anything.</p>
<p>So sorry to hear about this “dirty laundry” episode. Your D does not need this! I’m sure she doesn’t have two hours to babysit her laundry so it doesn’t get stolen. Here’s an idea for you: how about a couple of those fold-up clothes drying racks so she could dry her clothes in her room overnight? That way she would only have to sit with her laundry during the wash cycle.</p>
<p>My D had TWO North Face fleece jackets stolen in different summers at her summer camp (where all the campers could afford their own jackets). Very annoying…</p>
She acknowledges that she should stay with the laundry though nobody does. She also has a schedule where she goes to school all day and rehearses, etc. all night, more than a typical college student. I think she has to find some time when she’d be in and can take work to the laundry room I guess. They took soaking wet clothing. She said she checked every washer and dryer and all of it was gone. She went back later and then there was a small pile of soaking wet stuff, what she says, they likely “rejected” some underwear or PJs, but all her clothing was gone. I wish she had reported it right away and I hope she does tomorrow. She says there are security cameras but she is not sure that the tapes are saved or just watched while in present time. She doesn’t want to waste our money to replace the stuff but it was a lot of stuff including things she needs to wear for classes. Ah, another saga in the life of a college student. Otherwise, things are good :). </p>