Lessons in Laundry…

Have you ever had one of those times when you just tried to do something nice for someone and it just didn’t turn out… “nice?”

Saturday morning Em went to go visit her Grandfather.  While she was gone I planned on doing the laundry for her and mow the lawn. (this is the part where we all go “1.. 2.. 3.. AWWWW.”)  So I get one load done washing and throw it into the dryer, then I go out side to mow the yard. At this point I’m feeling pretty good about myself. This feeling of self-accomplishment is short lived. She arrives home to find 2 loads of wet laundry and a broken dryer.

The day that I had planned for her, which was a day of rest and relaxation was as busted as the dryer.  She then has to take the two wet loads of laundry, plus the other two loads to her mom and dad’s house to finish.  The next 7 hours she spends doing laundry, while I dive deep into the internet and the dryer trying to figure out how to fix it.  Again, I am very satisfied with myself when I find a forum for repairmen that has a troubleshooting list for my specific dryer.  I then proceed to take the entire dryer apart.  You must understand that I am not exaggerating. every part came out, all cables unplugged.

So you have to picture this. I have the entire washing machine in pieces on the kitchen floor… about that time Em returns home, after her 7 hour tour, to find now her kitchen is taken over by dirty dryer parts. Somewhere in the middle of my frustration that I couldn’t get anything right, it hits me. I hurry to put the dryer back together and run outside with a flash light. The Breaker on the outside of the house had tripped. There was NOTHING wrong with the dryer.

Lessons to Learn:

1. Try the easy stuff first.

2. Stay away from the laundry. –  We either have to end up buying new clothes or (in this cases) we almost went to go buy a new dryer.

3. Never think to highly of yourself.

4. Never stick a screwdriver in to a socket to test if you have power –  I got lucky this time.

5. Flowers are a much safer surprise than anything else I have found.