Tommy Steele from the 1950s
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The man who fixes our whitegoods finally said the
dishwasher wasn’t worth fixing again. We got a new dishwasher.
The second hinge on the washing machine lid finally broke.
No matter, sometimes it takes a little juggling, but it does eventually lock
and allow the spin cycle to kick in.
One of the skylights developed a leak during one of
Melbourne’s particularly stormy storms. The Other climbed up on to the roof and
wrapped it in bubble wrap. Very resourceful for a 64 year old woman, I reckon.
We don’t want to crack open a new tube of silicon just for that, we’ll wait til my cuz comes to put two new brackets on the guttering. And to put some cement sheets over the upstairs decking to keep the downstairs deck dry when it rains.
We don’t want to crack open a new tube of silicon just for that, we’ll wait til my cuz comes to put two new brackets on the guttering. And to put some cement sheets over the upstairs decking to keep the downstairs deck dry when it rains.
The microwave died. That was when we realised just how
much we used it. Aunty replaced that after two days, because she couldn’t stand
the frustration any longer.
The X Trail started jumping out of 5th gear at
random intervals. There are millions of Xtrails on the road, but until this
happened we did not discover that "everybody knows" this problem is very common.
While Mr Motor Man had the X Trail in pieces he asked The Other if she was planning to keep it.
While Mr Motor Man had the X Trail in pieces he asked The Other if she was planning to keep it.
“Yes”, she said, “my next vehicle will be battery powered,
have three wheels, and have a little orange flag on the back.”
“Well”, said Mr Motor Man, “you could probably get another
20,000 kms out of the clutch plate, but it would be much cheaper to replace it
while everything is already dismantled.”
It’s hard to know what was worse, the $3,000 bill, or
being without a second car for two weeks.
My super duper PC Delores died. No matter, the old lap top
still works.
Our electric blanket died. Well, you can’t let poor
defenceless little dogs freeze, can you? They’ve just had a short back and
sides in anticipation of the grass seed season, and they are feeling the cold.
Now the little man who used to live in the fridge has done
a moonlight flit. Oh well, no biggie.
But if it’s true that “things happen in threes”, this
means three annoying things are followed closely by another three, and then
another three, and…
