The dishwasher at our old house was very loud. We couldn’t hear the television when it was running, and since our bedroom was close to the kitchen, we wouldn’t let it run after we went to bed. So it was kind of a hassle.
At our new house, we looked for a quiet dishwasher. We found one that wasn’t quite as quiet as the quietest, but which was quite quiet. It was nice. We can barely hear it operating and can easily watch television with it on, even as close as we are to the kitchen when we watch television. But it also has a delay feature, so I can set it to turn on at 2 or 3 in the morning. Our bedroom is now at the opposite end of the house, which is not all that distant from the kitchen, but we never hear a thing when the dishwasher rus. Nothing at all. It’s great.
So, on Tuesday night I set the washer to come on at 3 am. We had filled it with all of my juice glasses, a whole lot of cups, lots of saucers, and almost every single utensil we have. On Wednesday morning I came into the kitchen and opened the washer. The first item I took out was dirty. Great, I thought, what did I do, obstruct the washer’s water spray? Then I looked at some plates. They were dirty. Unwashed. And then I realized that none of the control lights that should have been on were actually on.
Great. The washer is not working. It looked like there was no power, so I thought maybe the electrical plug had come out. I unscrewed the washer frame and pulled it from under the counter. Nope. It was wired directly with no plug. I went downstairs and with Leah’s help identified the circuit breaker that controls the washer. It was fine. I turned the power off, hoping maybe it would wake the washer up when I turned it back on, but no luck.
With a little online investigation I found some instructions for checking the controls. I activated a sequence of buttons, and all the lights came on, and then what looked like an error code appeared on a screen. A little more investigation convinced me that our problem is almost certainly a failed circuit board. I ordered one online and we’re waiting for it. It looks like a fairly easy replacement.
In the meantime, we’re washing dishes by hand. The load I unloaded after it didn’t get washed did, indeed, include virtually every utensil we own, plus some that a stray hobo must have put in the washer while we weren’t looking. I’ve never seen so many utensils. We must be rich or something. I remember washing large quantities of dishes by hand, but it’s been a long, long time.
This makes me wonder, just a little, only a little. We had our noisy washer until we moved, so from 2005 until 2017. Twelve years without a problem. It was noisy but it lasted. Now we have a very quiet washer, and it lasted two years.
Oh well. It’s like Roseanne Roseannadanna said, “That just goes to show you, it’s always something.”
Those of us who are of a certain age are probably aware of Gilda Radner’s Roseanne Roseannadanna character on Saturday Night Live. She had a number of relatives, including her Nana Roseannadanna, her aunt Pollyanna Roseannadanna, her “musically happening cousin” Carlos Santana Roseannadanna, her religious aunt Hosanna Roseannadanna, and her singing cousin Lola Falana Roseannadanna.
Leah and I miss Roseanne, as well as Emily Litella. We wonder what Gilda would be doing now if she had lived.
Wow! This post took a sudden turn at the end!
I remember Roseanne Roseannadanna (though when I read the title of your post, I thought of that other Roseanne, who, aside from her politics, had a lot of funny things to say about housework). I, too, wonder about comedians, actors, musicians who are gone now and what they might have done.
Paul — I figured that there could be some ambiguity if I used Roseanne without Rosannadanna, but I decided to keep it. The post is a reflection of my train of thought. I wanted to post about our dishwasher, and “it’s always something” came to mind. I remembered that Gilda Radner had used that phrase in some of her skits, so I looked her up on Wikipedia. I read the names of her “relatives” and it broke me and Leah up so much I wanted to share that, too.
Ah Roseanne Roseannadanna, I haven’t thought of her in so many years. It’s a shame that died so young. She was right, it is always something. We have found that a lot of modern stuff is not as good or long-lasting as the older stuff. I think it’s a marketing scheme to keep people buying, but that’s probably something I just made up. We don’t use the dishwasher in our house. With just the two of us, we hand wash our dishes. There’s not that much, and it goes pretty fast.
Robin — It’s funny how used to the dishwasher we had become. Washing by hand seemed like a real chore. Of course we always wash a few things by hand, but not everything. I remember doing all the dishes for the four of us by hand every night when I was a kid. We didn’t have a dishwasher in that old house.