Our washing machine has broken. It’s been broken for over a week. It has been looked at, condemned and a new one is on order. All well and good except that my washing pile is beginning to give me funny looks. We have a tumble dryer in the house too. When the man came to fix the washing machine he managed to fix the tumble dryer that had been broken for 6 months. Apart from the poetic irony of that, it’s the possibility that the washing machine could take just as long to fix that concerns me.
Under the tumble dryer we have a second washing machine. This is owned by the inhabitants of Room C. It was here before I moved in and they told me that it doesn’t work either. The owners use our washing machine bringing the total number of adult users of the poor thing to 10. Since we are all getting desperate for washing facilities, I thought that I would ask the owners if I might have a look at their machine and see if I could fix it. I looked at it. I fitted a plug. It works now. Each night I cry just a little longer…
9 comments:
Aren't you the clever boy then! :D
If I were you, I would be done with the idiots and just go to the launderette each week, get everything done in one shot, and let their broken machines be damned. Unless you enjoy being one of them.... (Sorry. That sounds harsh, doesn't it? But why have you let yourself be inconvenienced for soooo long?)
That is just plain stupid laziness on the owner's part. He could go buy a machine, have it delivered and have the old one trashed. Take at best.... a day.
You could take LilBuntu with you, or your PSP or whatever to pass the time. And using dryers would mean little ironing, right???
Thank you. You Made me laugh just when I needed it!
Been there, seen it, got a T-shirt with a plug on it!
Well done you!
Sx
Reminds me of all those idiotic IT helpdesk calls I used to get;
Me: "Hello, helpdesk"
User: I've just bought a new printer, and it doesn't work! I've installed the software, downloaded the updated drivers, changed the ink and all that, but it's not doing anything!
Me: "OK, Sir, can you check first if it's plugged into a known working power socket?"
User: "You mean I've got to plug it in too....?"
;-)
oh you handyman-types
with your damn sexy fixingness!
sigh.
I have to agree with James: it's precisely the kind of problem that an experienced IT bod would fix.
I hope you're charging the appropriate call-out and first-hour fees.
Of course, it does mean you no longer have an excuse not to do your laundry ...
Helga: I always was good with my hands.
Ponita: I just object in principle to going to a laundrette when we have machines here. I'm stubborn like that...
Mapstew: I'm always good for a laugh, me...
Scarls: You lucky, lucky girl, you. :-)
James: It does rather doesn't it. This is why I refuse point blank to ever working support.
Projectivist: My hands are adept at more than just fixing washing machines you know... :-)
Ro: Yes. Some people should be banned from ever touching technology...
"Some people should be banned from ever touching technology"
I think they're known collectively as "end users" ;-)
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