I’ve always thought it would be a good idea if appliances could
warn you a couple of weeks before breaking down. It would give you time to
prepare. If you knew the washing machine was going to go on the fritz in a week
or two, you’d wash all the sheets first, right? If the dryer was about to fail,
you could hang a clothesline in the back yard, and maybe not get quite so many
towels dirty. And if the dishwasher was due for a breakdown, you could invest
in rubber gloves, scrubby sponges, and Palmolive. Or maybe paper plates and plastic
flatware. Our 3-year-old dishwasher lost a pump two weeks ago. The repairman
said that hardly ever happens. Then he said our pump is on back order. “It’ll
take about a month to get here,” he said, “Unless it takes three. It hardly
ever takes three months.” Maybe it’s time to invest in Palmolive.
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