I opened the door to the laundry room tonight (with the intention of doing laundry) and almost gagged (incidentally, I came home after a weekend-long absence some weeks back and had the same reaction upon walking into the kitchen, but that was the kitchen. Bad smells in a kitchen aren't *that* shocking). Turns out there were clothes in the washer that had been washed and then left to sit for-- fuck knows how long. It smelled something like a week.

Point 1: I could re-run the washer with the molding load to try and wash out the smell, then stick them in the dryer so I could do my own laundry.

Counterpoint: I'm not her mother and I am not doing her laundry for her.

Point 2: I could immediately deposit the molding clothes into the dryer so I could do my own laundry.

Counterpoint: See above, plus I had no intention whatsoever of touching those clothes. Seriously, they reeked.

Point 3: I could do nothing and wait for her to come home to take care of it herself and wait to do my laundry until she'd resolved the situation.

Counterpoint: Going this route might very well mean the washer won't be free for another few days.

As it turns out, I went with option/Point 3. As it turns out, she didn't come home tonight. As it will probably turn out, I will probably just go with option/Point 1 because I really, desperately need to do laundry soon, but doing so will annoy the shit out of me. And I'm feeling petty and irritable enough that I'm tempted to just take everything out of the washer and dump it on the floor. I honestly had no idea that an abandoned washer could produce those kinds of smells.