start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

1. Our washer broke, again.

(1a. The problem was that the drain pump froze, leading the first repair guy to suggest keeping a space heater on the washer at all times. LOL. He ordered a new drain pump and a new "control board" while he was at it.)

2. Dude came out to install the parts on Thursday. When he left, the machine worked but it would not stop washing! It just kept cycling through the wash/rinse/spin cycles over and over again. Forever. So I called him and he came back, and "recalibrated" the machine, and when he left he said it was working but the same problem was happening.

3. New dude is back today (when I called again I asked that they send out somebody else). This guy has suggested that the problem is that it's set to rinse twice. Nope, because it doesn't just take a long time. It NEVER STOPS RUNNING THROUGH THE CYCLES FOR HOURS. Then he said, "Well, you know if you hold the button down for three seconds it will unlock." YES that is how I freed my (very clean) clothes from the endless washing cycle, but that is not a solution to this problem!!!

It's like the time in an old apartment our heater stopped working and the landlady sent out a repair guy who looked at it, shrugged, and said he couldn't see anything wrong with it. Other than the obvious "Does not put out heat." But apparently that was not his problem?

I'm ready to move into an elevator building with a laundry room, seriously. This is our second washer in four years, and the third or fourth time we've had to have somebody out to fix the fucking thing.

You seem to be mistaking your anger at the irrational for irrational anger. btw, try to find an old Maytag. Those washers lasted forever and a day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKE3ZLj7_V8

For Carl

We rent so we are at the mercy of our landlord as far as what type of machine he buys and which incompetent bozos he hires to come and service it. We went through similar WTFery with them when our dishwasher broke (I think we're on our third dishwasher, and there was definitely a two week period when we had a big gross hole under the counter for the cat to get stuck in while we waited for them to fix it the third time).

Aimless you are being OTM w/r/t me today. I think I need to hire you as a life coach.

My washing machine started rusting last year. The whole area around the bleach intake was rusty and bits were flaking off and mixing in with our laundry. I found some diy instructions online and learned that and repainted it with appliance epoxy. But it's an appliance that is designed to be filled with water. It shouldn't fucking RUST!

This is all after a weekend of my poor toddler having a barf-n-poop illness so you know, we definitely need to do some laundry around here.

LOL Adam thanks.

Life coach? God forbid! You'd end up with a job as a part time spittoon washer, live in a cardboard box, and have a three-headed pig for a pet or some other abomination. Trust me on this... if you dare!

This is like the "one person can only lie and the other can only tell the truth" riddle...

So it turns out the last repair person had the control board set to "continuous wash." Hahahahahahaaaaaaaaaoh my.

ahahahahahhaasobsobsob
why is that even a thing?

when I was a student our landlord used to be very obliging and come over to fix things. but he only ever brought a hammer with him no matter what the problem.

I don't know! It really is cracking me up, though, or maybe I'm just giddy with validation after my interaction with the gaslighting washer repair man.

xp ha. putting to the test the old saying "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

"Microwave won't switch on eh?" *bash bash bash bash* "hmm" *chuckle*

Hmmm, looks like it was set on "continuous microwave".

My great-grandmother said she had a continuous washing machine. It was called THE RIVER.

The sheer volume of kinds of certain items Amazon has for sale -- I was trying to find sheet sets and it's maddening

Also: how hard it is to find separate fitted sheets of any quality. The "sheet set" seems like a scam invented by the sheet industry -- fitted sheets get dirty and wear out way faster than everything else. And I do not need two pillowcases per set for my kid's twin bed.

The sheer volume of kinds of certain items Amazon has listed for sale -- I was trying to find sheet sets and it's maddening

Swear 35 percent of your results were out of stock.

omg continuous wash what even

demo mode?

i had an old car & a douchey mechanic who was friends with my dad

take the car in because of loud metal squealing on one side when turning

doesnt hear anything
returns the car with two bolts missing out of the gear shift so that it is leaning against my leg instead of upright
wtf havent even driven it out of his garage & he has to fix it
takes it for another drive with me, HEARS the noise clearly & tells me its a brake pad & we argue about that
he agrees to check the brakes & not charge me because fuck you its not the brakes dude

week later a universal joint literally falls out of my car & i take the pieces of twisted metal & rubber to the douchey mechanic
who says "oh yeah i guess that would cause that noise too" RAGE

no continuous wash but in the same family of dumb idiots who dont listen or know what theyre doing

sounds like a pretty lousy mechanic

he was the worst

he looked like the teenage son from Family Guy but a 40yr old man

i got a better mechanic after that

lol

I have a friend who had the front ball joint on the passenger side of his car after he'd taken it into the mechanic and they'd replaced the driver side one. He was driving along and all of the sudden his wheel was bouncing around in there instead of attached to the car. Their response was something to the effect of, "Whoops, we didn't think to check the other one" xp

whaaaat jfc

Ha there's someone we used to see at gigs that looks exactly like the son from Family Guy big a 40-yr-old man. We call him Family Guy Guy.

lol

oh jeez, comprehended that as Family Circus the first time.

Thought, well hell, that's a handsome mechanic right there!

Or maybe not, forget I mentioned it.

http://i.imgur.com/7UcC9iV.jpg

Right after Jeff and I started dating he got a tired changed and the mechanic neglected to securely screw the tire back on (or however they affix tires) and it fell off his car as he was driving down the road away from the mechanic.

Anyway, washing machine works. Now who wants to come over and help me fold all this god damn laundry god damn.

a machine that continuously folds clothes, now I'd buy that.

I like folding laundry sometimes and also I am a savage

What are you doing for the rest of the week?

a machine that continuously folds clothes, now I'd buy that.

be careful there, pplains. I hear that sort of thing can backfire on you.

http://sites.lwhs.org/animation12/files/2012/11/sorcerer-300x209.jpg

I do seem to remember there being a somewhat pointless-seeming replica of the Ghostbusters car by the Bruce High Quality Foundation in a Whitney Biennial show.

― five six and (man alive), Thursday, March 5, 2015 10:22 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, they are all the kids of rich, famous artists. That's the point of that piece.

the people in Bruce High Quality are?

My barber opens at 7:00. At 6:41 there were damn 4 people in line. Now there are 3 more.

It makes me consider going to the sports-themed chain across from my house and actually having to ask for an "MVP" or "Varsity" or "Jr. Varsity" cut. But that's for the irrationally embarrassed thread.

wait so when you say barber are there mutliple barbers or do you have to wait for like 4 ppl to get their hair cut??

There were 2 barbers to start the day. Two guys ahead of me requested the one who cuts my hair. Not a terrible wait but I get (irrationally) frustrated that other people get there so early.

How much does your haircut cost?

the worst is when you show up early at the salon and while you're waiting people who made online reservations stroll in and are taken before you

There's got to be other barber alternatives reasonably convenient. I mean, having a barber in your building is the most convenient, but is there somewhere near work where you could go on a lunch break or someplace you could go in the evening?

but morning is when you get hungover barbers who don't feel like talking

We need to find the über of barbers.

I work downtown so all of the barbers are fancy and charge 2-3 times what my normal barber, over in the shopping center across town, charges.

He gets snuffy every once in awhile because I don't see him every other week like some of his other customers, but it's a chore to leave work during the day.

just be a fancy man who goes to a hair stylist and make an appointment for the next haircut when you get one. if you decide you don't need one that week, reschedule.

ilm thread revives about new albums that piggyback on threads about their last album, or their last bit of news. for example, all of the discussion about the excellent new sleater-kinney album has been on Sleater-Kinney breaks up and all the discussion about last year's gerard way album was on My Chemical Romance call it a day . Start new threads for new albums people!

long-ass ILE movie/tv thread titles that include the names of director, writer and 4 or 5 actors.

customers who don't reply to emails ever...it's like they only want to be the sender, not the recipient idgi

and ppl who dont acknowledge emails at all even just to say thanks

rude

and this is when you have email-heavy communication with ppl

not group emails or advertising or whatever