Adventures of Pink House

Recently, our washing machine and dryer have been giving us a run for our money.... While I ws out of town for the "flu vacation" which was given to us last week, thus prompting an impromptu trip to Macedonia, my roommate who works in the college counseling office, who was required to stay and work for the week, had an encounter with our washer... This is her letter to the school president... It was too hysterical not to share... :) perhaps we will receive a new washer and dryer?? Who knows...

Hi ___,

The washing machine here at Pink House is a sad little machine these days. A part of it broke off a few weeks ago and it was leaking water, so I put in a work request and they sort of fixed it. I mean, it wasn't perfect - Vinka (our house cleaner) said that it was "Bulgarski rabota," Bulgarian work, since it was still leaking some water. Anyway, this past weekend it got worse. The part that had broken off broke off again and the machine started walking. More like shimeying, really. I came home one day and it had shimeyed out a good six feet or so away from the wall. It even turned a corner - impressive!

All this to say that our machine is in rough shape. It shakes loudly during the spin cycle, it still leaks some water down the front, and it shimeys all over the place. I'll leave it up to you to decide the best course of action, I'm not sure if there's an appliance repair place that could be called or if this sad little machine has just met its end.

Thanks for your attention to this matter.

-"A"