For months now, I’ve been dealing with a slow breakdown of every appliance in this house: from a leaking washer to an exploding refrigerator shelf, I’ve walked with Murphy beside me all the days of my life.
Frankly, the last time this happened I was trying to collaborate with Eric Flint and right now I was considering going back an finishing that collaboration, so I’m so totally blaming him for this. My appliances hate Eric Flint.
Anyway, that’s not the alarming part. That’s an annoying part, and expensive in time and money, but particularly time — which is why we’ve put off shopping for new appliances till after the cons. It’s easier to do dishes by hand and hit the laundromat once a week than to spend a week or two shopping and then clear the basement for washer delivery
Meanwhile, the weirdest thing has happened. My dishwasher was DEAD — as in, electrically dead. This wasn’t even surprising because this dishwasher has had the control panel replaced upteen times, and going electrically dead is what it does. It’s been that way for about two months now. I was using it as a glorified dish rack, to keep the kittehs off te dishes and I left the door slightly open so stuff dried.
So, yesterday, I’m sitting at the kitchen table, drinking tea and talking to the guys and I look over at the dishwasher panel and see lights on. For a while all I could do was point and go “the… the… the….”
We took shameless advantage and ran a load of dishes, figuring this was a weird fluke and we’d get exactly ONE wash out of it. However, today it continued to function, and I ran another load.
Now I’m worried. This is akin to your dead-and-buried pet coming back into the house, or the best friend that you saw shot to death yesterday sitting up in his coffin. I’m all for a working dishwasher, of course. Leaves me more time to write in. Still, it’s hard to escape the feeling it’s a zombie and it will start making unnatural demands pretty soon.
Do zombie dishwashers wash your brains?
According To Hoyt 