Originally Posted by ladyislingering

My 1960s dishwasher smells like it's on fire, so I called my landlord and she's having maintenance come over on Monday to figure out why it's so loud and smelly all of a sudden. At least she was nice enough to come over and take a look at it. Plus she says that if the problem isn't fixable, we get a brand new dishwasher for free.

That doesn't change the fact that I have to do all this by hand when I get home tonight.

Damn it.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.