I put a load of clothes in the washing machine last night and turned it on. About ten minutes later I entered the kitchen to get a snack, and was not happy to find myself stepping in a widening puddle of water, which was seeping in under the door from the laundry room! I rushed out to the laundry room and turned off the washing machine. I have a service contract with Sears for them to come out and repair my appliances, so I called them up and they told me that it will be two weeks before they can send a repairman out! So now I have a completely saturated load of clothes that I need to take out of the machine and take down to a laundromat to finish up. Goodness knows that is not something I enjoy doing!

I think that a two week wait for an appointment is disturbing. I wonder if there is the same time lag for broken refrigerators! That would be terrible!