Some essential item always seems to fail at Casa Sammamish just before we host a get-together. Our first year here, a shelf in the kitchen decided to fail just before the Super Bowl party. This sent a cascade of ceramic and glass flowing to the counter and floor around me. We managed to clean everything up just before our friends arrived. A year or two later, our hot water heater conked out the Thursday before the Super Bowl. The landlord and his son replaced it a day before the game so we could have hot showers and be socially correct.
This week we decided to host the crew for New Orleans cuisine. No sooner had Julian sent out the email invitations than a piece of plastic that allowed the upper shelf of the dishwasher to glide in and out broke. Not only would a new dishwasher be expensive, our kitchen is configured in a way that the range has to be moved out of the way to allow removal of the dishwasher. (The joys of a galley kitchen.) Luckily, Julian ordered the part from Maytag and fixed it himself. A $33 part (with shipping) beats $700 for a new dishwasher.
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