Sunday the dryer appeared to either be going out or I was losing my mind. I wasn't certain which was happening. Tuesday Todd called me at work and said that the dryer wasn't heating. I wasn't losing my mind. Wednesday he picked up the part from an appliance supply store and replaced the part. This was a total of $22 instead of the approximately $112 that it could have been had we called a service tech to come to the house. Yeah, $90 savings on service call!
Today was a rainy, yucky, grey kind of day. I came home this evening to a distraught Todd. He was not thinking rationally. He was asking Emma if she had been in his car today. Why would Emma go into her daddy's car? Cameron and Pher were both gone. Emma was the only one to interrogate. The doors of the car were locked. Todd's car has a door keypad for locking and unlocking the doors. Once before (when it was raining), his doors magically locked. Last time this happened his keys were in the car. Yes, his spare key was also in the car. Today, his keys were in the car, and his spare key was also in the car. No lesson learned from previous experience. After a loooong day at work, Barb came to the rescue. I called a locksmith. Ninety minutes and $42 later, Todd had his keys (both sets) in his hand. The spare keys are staying in the house now. They should have been inside all along (I refrained from saying that to him. It was tough, but I managed). Lesson learned this time: Keep spare key out of car, and remember that rainy days can cause spontaneous locking of car doors.
The way I look at it, we are still up from where we could have been had the service tech. come to the house to fix the dryer. If I didn't do my best to look at life in a positive way, I would be lying in the fetal position all the time.
** Edit to add. I've been asked this question 3 times now. Why didn't Todd use the keypad to open the door? The dampness caused the doors to spontaneously lock twice. He got lucky using the keypad to get the doors open the first time. This time, he wasn't so lucky. The short in the keypad not only locked the doors, but it also prevented him from unlocking the doors.
I'm missing something, if the car has a door keypad for unlocking, why didn't you just use that?
ReplyDeleteSorry to say it, but that was what I was thinking too. Why not use the keypad?
ReplyDeleteNow I can't even figure out how to comment on my own damn blog. It's been a very long, very bad week. The keypad shorts out when it is wet ouside. Sorry I did not make that clear.
ReplyDeleteNow I know what I didn't do last night. I was not signed on to the blog when I tried to reply to you guys. When it's wet outside, Todd's doors spontaneously lock. The keypad shorts out and will not unlock the doors. The first time this happened, he messed with it and the doors unlocked. Not this time. Spare is no longer allowed to be left in the car. Why would ANYONE leave their spare key in their car when it will be needed to unlock the car? Frustration at our house this week!
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