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The second-worst part of buying a new* appliance is waiting for the appliance to be delivered. At the moment, I'm in the part of waiting for it to be delivered that includes waiting for the delivery window to be assigned in the first place. It is remarkable how that waiting thing can slow me down, keep me from doing all the things I could get done and would get done in the same amount of time in the very same place.
The worst part of buying a new appliance is the moment of discovery. In this case, it was discovering all that wet laundry whirling around and around, tumbling, not getting dry, and remembering that last time it broke, the repair guy had said it couldn't be repaired a second time because of some technical reason. He guaranteed his repair for six months, and it lasted at least two years; no complaints there.
The good part of this wait is that I'm just waiting for a dryer. This time last week, I was waiting for Jane to get out of surgery. That turned out extraordinarily well, but that wait was much, much harder. This wait is nothing. I could do it on my head, if I could still stand on my head.
* I don't buy new major appliances, mostly; I buy refurbished ones from Reasonably Honest Dave's Used Appliances. Reasonably Honest Dave changed his name to Dave's Appliance Rebuild many years ago, but why would any of the rest of us go along with that? The man had a brilliant name for his store, and then he changed it to a wimpy whitebread name. I believe he's still reasonably honest. Over the past thirty years, he's sold me two washing machines, four dryers, and two refrigerators, all of them guaranteed to work for 90 days (my house came with a stove, and I replaced it with an actual new stove 14 years ago). Because of my allergies and my sewing habit, I do significantly more laundry than most people, so my laundry equipment isn't likely to last as long as yours should. I spend about half the price of a new appliance, and I get an dryer that last about two-thirds as long as the average new dryer should last, a refrigerator that outlasts the life expectancy of the average new refrigerator, a washer that outlasts the life expectancy of the average new washer.
The worst part of buying a new appliance is the moment of discovery. In this case, it was discovering all that wet laundry whirling around and around, tumbling, not getting dry, and remembering that last time it broke, the repair guy had said it couldn't be repaired a second time because of some technical reason. He guaranteed his repair for six months, and it lasted at least two years; no complaints there.
The good part of this wait is that I'm just waiting for a dryer. This time last week, I was waiting for Jane to get out of surgery. That turned out extraordinarily well, but that wait was much, much harder. This wait is nothing. I could do it on my head, if I could still stand on my head.
* I don't buy new major appliances, mostly; I buy refurbished ones from Reasonably Honest Dave's Used Appliances. Reasonably Honest Dave changed his name to Dave's Appliance Rebuild many years ago, but why would any of the rest of us go along with that? The man had a brilliant name for his store, and then he changed it to a wimpy whitebread name. I believe he's still reasonably honest. Over the past thirty years, he's sold me two washing machines, four dryers, and two refrigerators, all of them guaranteed to work for 90 days (my house came with a stove, and I replaced it with an actual new stove 14 years ago). Because of my allergies and my sewing habit, I do significantly more laundry than most people, so my laundry equipment isn't likely to last as long as yours should. I spend about half the price of a new appliance, and I get an dryer that last about two-thirds as long as the average new dryer should last, a refrigerator that outlasts the life expectancy of the average new refrigerator, a washer that outlasts the life expectancy of the average new washer.
