Enjoyed a stay-at-home vacation last week—pretended I was
rich and didn’t have to go to work. Really, I had a pretty full schedule of
things I wanted to get done. But, as is usually the case, things don’t always
cooperate.
The very first day, the washer broke and we had loads of
laundry. I took it apart, trying to find what was wrong. After several hours I
couldn’t find anything, so my wife and I went shopping. We almost bought a new
one too, but when the lady at the store started backtracking on the advertised
deal, my aversion to salesmen kicked in and I said, “No thanks.”
We went back home, without a washer, and I started looking
for a good deal on the computer. Salesmen tend to do that to me; make me want
to buy everything online. During my Internet travels, I came across a question
and answer site for appliances, and there on the top was a guy saying he
thought his door lid switch was bad. A light bulb suddenly turned on in my
head!
I don’t know why I hadn’t thought to check the switch, but
for some reason I hadn’t. Instead, I’d gone right to taking the whole thing
apart.
Suspending my Internet activity, I went to test the switch
and sure enough that was the problem. So for once, a pesky salesman, actually
saved me money!
A quick Google search told me a new switch would cost me
about thirty dollars plus shipping. Well, I didn’t feel like paying that much
for a simple switch, (and waiting a week or so for it to be delivered) so, I
just bypassed it. Took all of five minutes. And, it was free!
I know, for all of you safety minded people, the door switch
is a vital and critical part of the washing machine! If you can’t tell, that
last sentence was heavily laced with sarcasm. Washers worked fine for years
without the door switch. If we need to turn it off, there’s a dial within easy
reach—push it in and, like magic, the washer shuts off. Besides, bypassing the
switch was a lot less work than replacing it.
But then, I had to put the rest of the washer back together.
Figuring we were going to need a new one, I hadn’t bothered to reassemble
anything, just left it sitting there in the laundry room in pieces.
Well, if you’ve ever worked on a washer, you know they don’t
go back together quite as easily as they come apart. Four hours. That’s how
long it took to get it ready to use. All in all, I’d spent somewhere around six
hours taking it apart and then putting it back together. Had I checked the
switch first, I could have saved myself a LOT of time! Good thing I was on
vacation!
All is well that ends well, as the saying goes. The washer
works. The laundry is caught up. And, some of the stuff I wanted to work on, I
got done. But not all. Probably because I spent too much time on a washer! And
now, it’s back to work. Maybe on my next vacation, I can fix the dryer!
Bruce A. Borders is the author of
more than a dozen books, including: Inside Room
913, Over My Dead Body, The Journey, Miscarriage Of Justice, and The Wynn Garrett Series. Available in ebook and
paperback on iTunes, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Diesel Books, and
Smashwords, or at www.bruceabordersbooks.weebly.com.
Amazon Profile - http://www.amazon.com/Bruce-A.-Borders/e/B006SOLWQS.
Bruce A. Borders also serves as the Vice President of Rave Reviews Book Club.
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