Learning By The Way

Last night, James and I went to Sears to enact the next chapter in the saga of the dishwasher. You see, a bit back, our dishwasher died. With 9 people in the house, we work our dishwasher a bit a bit harder than most households do, I’d wager to say. I am not silly enough to think that a dishwasher is a necessity, but it is a great blessing in being a timesaver (and due to God bringing a free stove and free refrigerator into our lives just when we needed them, we had money in the appliance budget), so we decided to buy a new one. I researched Consumer Reports, we made our choice, and it turned out to be on sale that week by a significant amount, and we purchased it. So far, so good.

It came into Sears on Monday, and yesterday the installers came. And said that they wouldn’t be able to make it fit, due to the space being .25 inch to short, and no give whatsoever in our tile countertop. sigh. So back to the store we go last night to pick out a shorter dishwasher (who know that there was up to .75 inch variance in dishwasher sizes?) There was only one dishwasher that might work. And it wasn’t as nice, and not that much cheaper, and definitely not recommended by Consumer Reports.

So, on Frank the dishwasher salesman’s verbal agreement that if it doesn’t work we don’t have to pay the restocking fee, some different installers are going to be coming out to give it a try. Maybe today they will stop by to survey the famous immovable tile countertop. Maybe not. At any rate, someday we will have a new dishwasher. Of some kind. I believe it.

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