Dishwasher Dilemma

My dishwasher which has been leaking for months now, started making a horrendous rackety-clackety noise and then stopped completely. Obviously, this can't be good. There is no room for a new dishwasher in the budget right now, but I thought that, perhaps, we could afford to get it fixed. I checked the phone book to find some numbers for those who do appliance repairs. I dialed the first number listed, and they said they would send someone right out. Look who showed up.

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I was rather disappointed, as this fellow didn't seem to know what he was doing. He licked some of the bowls I had loaded in the dishwasher, peed on the rug, and then left.

I was NOT happy. This was not the type of service I was expecting. I called the company back. They asked me if the dishes were clean now. I said, "NO! Not what I would call clean!"

They apologized and said that they would send out an older, more experienced service representative to do the job. That's when Duke showed up.

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Duke didn't do any better than the one before him. I was beginning to wonder what kind of company I was dealing with. Duke scratched at the door letting me know that he wanted to leave, but he didn't fix the dishwasher.

I called the appliance repair place a third time. I was quite upset by this time and let the business owner know that over the phone. Once again he apologized profusely. He promised to send out a team of their most qualified experts to take my service call.

So he kept his word about sending out a team, but I would hardly call them experts. They too, like their aforementioned colleagues, were unable to determine the cause of my dishwasher troubles. I began yelling and ranting a bit, which I guess scared them. They ran out the back door, leaving a trail of wet footprints clear across the kitchen floor. I was steamed. Now, in addition to my dishwasher being broken, I was going to have to mop the floor.

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Obviously, this company was not going to give me satisfactory service. I moved on to the next number in the yellow pages under appliance repair. I explained the troubles I had been having.

Then I asked them straight out, "Look, do you employ dogs there? If you do, I might as well try another number. The last company I dealt with hired dogs, and they did NOT get the job done."

The voice on the phone laughed. "Dogs! What a crazy question! Of course not! There are no dogs working here. We would NEVER hire dogs as dishwasher repair representatives."

"Very well," I said. "Could you please send someone out then?"

"Yes, someone will be there right away."

I could tell this was definitely NOT going to be my day when their representative arrived.

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Although she really got into her work, she was just as clueless as the others had been. Why is it so hard to get good help these days? After a while, she seemed to lose interest in the dishwasher and wandered out to sit on the back of the couch and look out the window.

Back to the phone I went. The second company apologized as the first company had done and promised to send a new repair crew out right away. More furry felines appeared at my door, and I felt I had no choice but to let them in and give them a chance.

CLUELESS---they were all TOTALLY clueless! I must have let my temper get the best of me a bit then, because they looked a bit frightened when I started raging about their incompetence. One of them crawled completely INSIDE the dishwasher to hide!

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I shooed them all out of the house and into the street, yelling at them to NEVER come back. My neighbor across the street, glanced over anxiously in our direction, then she hurried into her house.

I sighed and tried to calm down a bit. My nerves were more than a little frayed. I had had a total of TEN, no less, appliance repair "professionals" into the house, so far, and not a SINGLE one was able to fix my dishwasher. I decided to call one more appliance repair center.

I explained my predicament and then said, "Look you need to be upfront with me. Do you hire animals there? Or is this a business that employs humans?"

The person taking my call seemed to think I was insane and assured me that they did indeed employ only people---no four-legged animals! So I asked her to please send someone to my house. In no time at all, the repair person had arrived. Although I was impressed with his punctuality and with his attempts to determine the problem, he unfortunately, was also unable to fix my dishwasher.

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A second apprentice arrived to see if he could help.

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Which was followed by a third.

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NONE of these fellows could find where the problem was in my broken dishwasher. I decided to give up. My dishwasher has washed its last dish, and I just need to accept that fact and move on.

I have decided that the following should be my next best course of action:



I thought about hiring some help to wash the dishes for me. I found someone who said he would do it for peanuts, but he wanted weekends and holidays off. Is he kidding me? That's when I want someone else to wash the dishes the most!! So I decided not to hire him.

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Maybe I could save some money up and then buy the kind of dishwasher that is in the video below. I could make a little bit of money from it on the side:



Even with a dishwasher, it still needs to be loaded and unloaded frequently. So when I save up enough to buy a new dishwasher, I'll see if I can get them to throw in one of these to go with it.

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In the meantime, I guess I'll just have to get used to having dishpan hands.

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