Thursday - November 12, 2009
IT’S ALWAYS THE LITTLE THINGS THAT REMIND ME WHY I MISS THE USA SO MUCH.
The longer I’m here the more I miss the USA.
Meanwhile ... damn it ... I’m here at the desk facing the front window. I can’t see the construction next door from here, but can hear one of the crew. He’s a whistler. One of those tuneless make it up as we go along jerks.
What is it with IDIOT WHISTLERS who think they are sharing some sort of talent by doing that, but not any particular tune anyone might recognize?
Just a series of very annoying sound effects. I often wonder when I hear no talent schmucks like that; what exactly are they hearing?
Our dryer which is only a year and a half old, is on the fritz. Even from the beginning it was always a poorly designed piece of crap. Of course the years guarantee was up 6 months ago. No wait. Make that 7. The damn start button keeps getting stuck. And that isn’t all.
It’s a BEKO. We also have their washer.
BEKO is shit ppl and I wouldn’t recommend that product to an enemy. OK, maybe a muzzie. But nobody white.
Things are poorly designed here and I have to wonder what the makers are thinking. For example.
There’s a setting for delicate cycle and also a non wrinkle setting. Got it? Good. Now then, WTF is the point of all that when after the damn washer stops, the door remains locked for a full two minutes or more and things just sit there wet, and wrinkled. I want a washer like the one we had in the USA. Washer stops, open the damn door. Works every time, provided you live in America.
We have cycles that can run for two and a half hours. Sure, there’s a setting called Time Saver. Woo-Hoo. That one can save 45 minutes but sometimes you only need a quick wash and it shouldn’t be an hour.
I miss the machines we have back home in the USA. Set the dryer, it runs and things dry and you stop it whenever. The one we have that’s sort of planet friendly and computer driven. It TELLS ME what I should do. Has a light that comes on at different phases. Like for example, ready for ironing.
Oh good.
Before we bought a washer and a dryer over a year ago, we used to go across town to another village where there was a launderette.
ALL their EFFICIENT machines come from .... THE USA! I kid you not. But try and buy a USA machine for home use. HA! It’s the price of a car. Frankly, I’d have done it except the wife vetoed the idea saying, with perfect logic, that it might be a waste of a lot of money we didn’t have if we were leaving this place. And at the time, we had no idea when exactly that might be. And guess what?
WE STILL DON’T KNOW !
Anyone have any Xanax they can spare?
Posted by peiper
on 11/12/2009 at 08:23 AM
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