1-800-SEARS-NEEDS-TO-COME-TODAY

I need to dial that number today

or you may be dialing

9.1.1.

by Friday, if I go missing.

Missing under the mountain range

of dirty clothes that is gathering upstairs

because my washer is broken.

So here is my washer and dryer.

(note that, yes, they are pedestal-less...boo hoo)

Anyway, a couple of weeks back, when I was unloading the

wet clothes into the dryer, something was just not right.

It looked like there was a lot of residue in the washer...

...almost rubber-like.

Then I came upon one of my bras.

One of my favorites,

ripped to shreds,

with one of the underwires

ripped out of it's little home -

the bottom seam.

So here are some underwires.

Now, baby, my underwires are not the cutesy little ones

in the middle of the picture,

but the gargantuan ones toward the outside.

And apparently it had a field day in my washing machine.

Bigger, isn't always better....

Many days later, and many loads later

I noticed a tear in the rubber seal around the door.

And then I noticed water on the floor that

had overflowed from the

"overflow" pan.

Then I left for California.

So my ever-so-handy husband,

examined the situation

and did pretty much what I thought he would do,

and

duct-taped the hole...

....with duct tape...

...that's not waterproof...

(but did match the grey color of the seal!!!)

That didn't really fix it.

I tell you with all honesty

that I am totally comfortable


with the idea of calling Sears
to come and fix the old

perfectly fine

washer that we have...

really.

But next house.......

screw the game room,

screw the formal living room.

I want one of these rooms.