Troubles come in threes
Dishwasher fire, boiler fire, what next? Call me superstitious but I have been pondering this. I had decided that the best way to beat the curse was to have a bonfire, although I was rather worried about it, I could burn down the entire neighbourhood. Anyway, my dilemma has been solved. This morning I put some washing in the machine, went off, came back an hour later and started unloading the machine, half the clothes were wet, the other half dry. Thinking I must have had some mental aberration and turned the control knob round so the machine hadn't finished it's cycle I started it again - water, pump, but no agitation, except from me. The air turned blue as I cussed. A debate followed, 'It's 7 years old, is it worth repairing?' 'No.' Looked up on internet prices for new machines, mmm perhaps I should call someone out. An hour later Carl arrived. Looked at circuit board ' Oh, its short-circuited.' Hurrah' I exclaimed 'A mini-fire, that's the third thing. Brilliant'. Carl then got out his trusty soldering iron, 'I'll give this a try, a new board and labour will be over £100, but if this works it will be half that'. It worked. I happily wrote out the cheque ,the jinx has been cast-out, and a totally bemused repair man knows that he has made one middle-aged lunatic happy.