Rants

We bought a new toaster oven on Sunday. We were on the way to the airport to pick up Donna’s mom and needed to kill some time, so we went into a new Wal-Mart in North Augusta. It has only been open a few months and it still has that newness about it that makes shopping there a lot less of a hassle than at an established store. We picked out a nice round shaped unit that we thought would look cool in our newly painted 50’s kitchen. When we got it home and unpacked it there was a piece of the black plastic on the bottom broken off. The box wasn’t even damaged, did it get broke at final packing and they just stuffed in the box? It is really non functional and in such a place that it doesn’t show, so we will live with it. That is much easier than boxing it back up and driving over there to swap it out. We just can’t have nice things….

Borrowed the Finding Nemo DVD from a co-worker before Thanksgiving. When I mentioned it at Donna’s sister’s house on Turkey Day, her Mom said wait until I get back before watching that, as I would like to see it too. Mom came back yesterday, so as we sometimes do, we watched a movie with supper. Of the three of us, I was the only one who found irony in the menu – we were having baked flounder.

We got a new washer and dryer on Saturday. $500 at Home Depot. Free delivery and take away they said. When the driver showed up with our new items he asked, “Did they tell you about the $10 charge for take away?” Nope, I guess we’ll just put them in the street. (We live in the City of Aiken and Thursday is trash day and they will haul away anything you put in the street.) When the driver asked what we wanted for them ,we said nothing, we just want them gone. He said he knew someone who might take them and he would come back and get them after he did his other deliveries. About 5 o’clock he called and said He’d get them on Sunday morning. It is nearly 7:00 PM and they are still out there. Guess I’ll just drag them into the street tomorrow….

For the past week every time I step in to the shower, I say to myself, “I need to trim those toenails.” Yet every time when I get out I don’t. I forget. Is it conscious or subconscious? My toenails have gotten so long that they sorta look like I’ve got one of those “French” manicures, you know light colored tips and darker bottoms. I’m going to start poking holes in my socks pretty soon. Didn’t Howard Hughes get so wacky that he stopped cutting his toenails too?

Our washing machine doesn’t spin so well anymore. Been deteriorating for a couple of months now. It works OK some times, but others it leaves a sopping wet mass of clothes in the bottom. For some reason it just isn’t getting the contents spread out well enough to get itself balanced to do a good spin. I’m sure it can probably be repaired, but Donna and I will probably go out and buy a new washer/dryer set. We want to help keep the economy rolling and these things are about 15 years old, so it is time.