Because You Care About My Appliances...

Our friendly neighborhood (dispatched by could-be-anywhere-in-the-world Sears Service Center operator) repairman told us yesterday that both the motherboard and the drain motor/pump of our Calypso washing machine should be replaced.

So, I feel confident that he will be able to get the accursed washer back into operation....eventually.

Because we have to wait another week for the parts and actual repair.

The repair dude admitted that not only is the Calypso prone to break-downs (as in: we were lucky to have three good years with it) but it's also a bear to work on.

As suspected, this replacement of two major parts more than justifies the cost of our 2-year service agreement. The parts alone would have cost $230-ish and our Master agreement (which covers all repairs for two years) cost $260-ish.

I think $30 is worth having someone who theoretically knows what he's doing repair the machine, as opposed to my Esteemed Husband and I doing it ourselves (even with our superior brain power, I don't think we should be handling the motherboard of any appliance that could theoretically flood our house.)

In this era of expected incompetence and planned obsolescence, it's oddly comforting to know that our Master Protection Agreement buys us two years of not giving a flying f*** about how much it costs to get this lemon of a washer model performing up to standards.

In the meantime, I've begun a secret love affair with my mother-in-law's good old-fashioned knob-operated machine. In fact, we may run off together if this whole Calypso thing doesn't pan out.