Friday October 15, 2004 When appliances go bad
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I'm sure there is a Gary Larson cartoon I should be including here. Last Saturday our old television just faded to black while we were watching a video. This isn't a big deal because we recently bought a new TV, but it now leaves us with the quandry of whether to get it fixed or just donate it to a charitable organisation, assuming they would want it in the first place. It's an old 32" Sony, that's huge. Takes at least two people to move it. It's also 12 years old, so I can well imagine it just died of old age. As I've been warned about the high voltages inside a TV, I've no plans to trouble-shoot this myself. |
Then on Wednesday, our water heater stopped working. Hands up all of you who like cold showers? Brrr! This was easily fixed yesterday via our insurance company. The fix was a new thermo-coupler, but the repairman made it clear that this appliance was also on its last legs and should be replaced soon. Now if we want to do this relatively cheaply through our insurance company, then we've got to wait for it to die, and then call them again. I see another cold shower in my future .
I have a belief that these things happen in threes, so I'm expecting another appliance to bite the bullet very soon.
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