‘lectric killers, qu’est-ce que c’est
May 8th, 2008 by suriel
In the past two days, we’ve managed to kill off three appliances. I’m wondering if we’re cursed.
Friday the coffeemaker started failing to brew the entire pot, and by Tuesday morning it was just sitting there and hissing at us and failing to produce coffee at all, joy. So we replaced it. Kind of annoying but not the end of the world.
Yesterday evening, Loki was shredding some of our massive pile of credit card invitations when the shredder started producing a warm-electric-thing sort of smell, and failing to fulfill its only mission in life, to shred things.
Ten minutes after that, our 16-year-old TV, which had been putting out a green-tinged picture for ages, went for the full-on, sea-green picture with lovely white diagonal stripes.
We’d been planning on replacing the TV after we moved (thank you, economic stimulus check), and move the Green Machine to the office, but we didn’t think we could make it the six weeks or so until that arrived, so we replaced it with a small LCD, picked up an industrial-strength shredder at the same time, and moved back our plans for the big LCD until probably Christmas.
Note to the rest of our electric and electronic possessions: YOU ARE NOT TO DIE YET. We can’t afford to replace you.


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