Maytag on strike.

Apparently everyone of my 3 daily readers love my blog, and have asked me to talk more. So I will.

I think home appliances belong to a union of home appliances. And they conspire to go on strike at the same time. Case in point, our washer, fridge, and oven.

Granted the oven and fridge were 30 and 17 years old respectively. But the washer was only about 5 years old.

The death of the washer occured first. It began with a little leak. I thought I fixed the situation with a tightening of hose clamps and some strategically placed silicone. It didn't work, and appeared to make the leak worse. I thought I was in New Orleans with the amount of water flooding into my laundry room. Luckily we had an older (they don't make them like they used to) kenmore. It works beautifully, though is stylin it 80s style.

Then the fridge decided that we didn't need to eat cold food. The first sign of trouble was melting butter. So we bought a new Kenmore bottom freezer, and the old one started to work again. Tough. It was relegated to the heap.

Then our old Fridgidare (a division of General Motors) decided to die. And it went up in a blaze of smoke. I guess it thought it was trying to do a magic trick and vanish. Unfortunatly the ugly thing was still there when the smoke cleared, and we bought a new double oven, made by Maytag.

Now the fridge and the oven were bitch to find. Our 1970s formica kitchen was designed with smaller appliances in mind. They were probably top-of-the-line huge in 1975 when the house was built, but in 2005, it's hard to find an oven and fridge to fit the holes they were meant to.

But they did. And we got them. The only problem was when my dad and I were lifting the new oven into it's spot, and he grabbed the lower oven door handle, puttinng pressure on the external decorative glass. Let's just say that my wife found out what safety glass does when it beaks.

Luckily it was under warranty.

The other funny thing about all this was getting rid of the striking machines. Most places you'd have to pay for removal, either by the delivering company, or by a garbage tranfer station. Not in my hometown. Just put a sign on it that says "free" and it'll be gone in 2 hours. tops. Let them negoiate the the union.

Posted by psugrad98 at September 14, 2005 02:23 PM | TrackBack