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some_stars) wrote2013-08-16 05:55 pm
some_stars) wrote2013-08-16 05:55 pm
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this is an email i just sent to my mom which i am too exhausted to edit. necessary background information: the laundry room in my building has been closed for the past two weeks, so we have to go to one of the two adjacent buildings to do laundry. i have postponed this as long as possible in the hopes of just waiting out the repairs entirely, since our room is supposed to reopen next week, but i just didn't have enough underwear, and then i was grossly busy and tired for two days running, so i absolutely 100% had to do laundry today if i wanted to leave home at all this weekend. so i sucked it up and went down there and ran into about eight hundred problems: the card machine only takes five dollar bills! the card machine for the other building has been removed entirely! the add-value machine that's supposed to take credit cards is not doing this! except stretched out over several more steps (including several literal steps, or at least an impossibly steep ramp) that are too tedious and miserable to recount. i finally get clothing into the washing machines and come back upstairs and call my mom and express misery until the timer goes off and i have to go move stuff into the dryer. AND THEN:
when i went down to put stuff in the dryer, one machine was done and one said one minute remaining. (i always have to do two loads bc one is for the delicate stuff that goes in the mesh bag, like bras, and needs to be done on woolens instead of just delicate. it is like a special weekly tax on being a woman.)
so i get all the stuff out of the finished machine, then go to open the other, bc there's a couple things i threw in with the delicates since i ran out of room in the big machine, and they need to go in the dryer. it still says 1 minute. i wait about three minutes. there is no change. at this point i look at the various instructions on the top of the machine, where it informs me that the machine may take longer than the time displayed due to various factors, one of which is a load imbalance. since it's starting to shake and i can see everything stuck to the walls inside, this is obviously the problem.
the curious part, however, is that the instructions offer no way to FIX the imbalance. the door stays locked until the countdown reaches zero, and they forbid you in bold letters to try forcing the door, of course, and there's no emergency stop button. so the machine just keeps going, and going, and going, and i thought it must have some kind of self correcting mechanism for exactly this situation because SURELY no one would be stupid enough to build a perpetual laundry machine, but several more minutes go by and: nope.
i ended up resolving the situation by looking around to make sure i was alone, then lifting the entire washing machine and shaking it violently before slamming it back down a couple times. amazingly, this actually worked. the machine seemed fine afterward, but i really hope i broke something, preferably something that costs ten thousand dollars to repair.
when i went down to put stuff in the dryer, one machine was done and one said one minute remaining. (i always have to do two loads bc one is for the delicate stuff that goes in the mesh bag, like bras, and needs to be done on woolens instead of just delicate. it is like a special weekly tax on being a woman.)
so i get all the stuff out of the finished machine, then go to open the other, bc there's a couple things i threw in with the delicates since i ran out of room in the big machine, and they need to go in the dryer. it still says 1 minute. i wait about three minutes. there is no change. at this point i look at the various instructions on the top of the machine, where it informs me that the machine may take longer than the time displayed due to various factors, one of which is a load imbalance. since it's starting to shake and i can see everything stuck to the walls inside, this is obviously the problem.
the curious part, however, is that the instructions offer no way to FIX the imbalance. the door stays locked until the countdown reaches zero, and they forbid you in bold letters to try forcing the door, of course, and there's no emergency stop button. so the machine just keeps going, and going, and going, and i thought it must have some kind of self correcting mechanism for exactly this situation because SURELY no one would be stupid enough to build a perpetual laundry machine, but several more minutes go by and: nope.
i ended up resolving the situation by looking around to make sure i was alone, then lifting the entire washing machine and shaking it violently before slamming it back down a couple times. amazingly, this actually worked. the machine seemed fine afterward, but i really hope i broke something, preferably something that costs ten thousand dollars to repair.
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Mine will stop if it detects an imbalance, and not start again without human intervention. Which leads to soggy clothing.