Mercifully the only place he can escape to is the outside hall and I don’t think he can work the elevator buttons. But you never know.
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They always comes in 3s.
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Yes, one never knows! While on a supervised walk this morning my big boy almost walked into Mr. or Ms. Fox on their morning ground squirrel quest. Almost had the ‘big one’ when black cat started running away from me toward fox. Grabbed the cat, got indoors and dang, I wish I could have had a drink of something stronger than herbal tea. The now adult bear (he’s three now) came through earlier this morning. Ah, living on the interface.
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I would have commenced day-drinking …
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I may have considered opening fire…
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@LindaWhit I thought about you tonight.
My dishwasher had been quiet as a church mouse for the last month or so, then tonight it started screaming louder than ever.
I looked at it and said “Keep that up and I’ll pull you out, just like Linda did with her old one” That didn’t seem to work and the thing is still screaming like a banshee, but the dishes are getting clean.
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LOL! Well, my old one say unused for about 6 months before I finally had her pulled out and replaced. Good luck with yours! Banshee yelling is never good.
I do have a spare motor/pump assembly for this beast and I’ll try before I pull it.
For now… we’ll just yell at one another like an old married couple.
Me having a screaming match with my dishwasher, my life is sounding more and more like a bad network sitcom.
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You have company. I heard salty language drifting up from the basement yesterday. It was the sound of my husband upset at our three-year-old washing machine that stopped working.
Rebooting didn’t work, so my husband called the appliance repair person we know. The repair guy has a hunch that it’s a failure-prone part in the model we have.
The repair person is on vacation until next week though, so he jokingly offered to negotiate with our neighbor (also his customer) to ask if we could use her washer in the meantime. That’s service. 
We do all know each other though, so it got a chuckle out of my husband.
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Yes, I had to replace my old washing machine about 6 months ago. The transmission went out and wasn’t worth fixing the old girl.
I found a used one on Craigslist for $50, all it needed was the drain hose repaired. I used an old piece of radiator hose and a couple of clamps. Done and Done!!
It’s an old Amana which I think shares some parts with the commercial “Speed Queen” washers. It spins quite fast during the spin cycle… to the point it sounds like I have a Cessna in the garage. To this point, none of my neighbors have called the FAA, so all good.
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Your husband was cursing at your three-year-old?
You say that as if you’ve never had a three-year-old.
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The payoff is always when the child curses back…
I was once in a supermarket checkout line behind a young mother with a manchild of that age in the cart. As the checker was scanning stuff, manchild beams at her and belts out “Hi, Fu@ker!”
Apparently my screaming dishwasher wants to play “hard ball”. Now it is refusing to open the soap dispenser door. No problem, I’ll set a timer and manually open it when its time.
You are not going to win – Banshee dishwasher, I’m going to make you continue to clean those dishes by hook or by crook!!
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I’ve noticed recently that the plastic parts inside the dishwasher are showing quite a bit of age, probably from the detergent corroding them. I have always used just a tiny bit of detergent in this dishwasher, after seeing how the utensil rack in our last dishwasher was becoming fragile after just a few years. They just don’t make them to last, anymore.
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It’s more likely heat is the culprit…
We just had our dispenser replaced for this reason. I think powdered detergents give these doors trouble in general.
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Anything is possible.
Its not a good time to pull it out, so I’ll just set a timer and manually open the little dispenser door or throw a pod in (when its time).
I find cursing out an appliance seems to imbibe the other appliances with a fear of my ire. Sometimes we have a pick one appliance and make an example of it. My icemaker is that appliance; so the stove, oven dishwasher, microwave and toaster oven behave accordingly. The nail that sticks up gets pounded down, baby! Even the stick blender is scared to death. Before they all thought I was a pushover. Oh no! DaBadger got a voice when thangs go bad.
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OMG!! Funny you should mention ice makers. Two days ago, my neighbor gave me his, as it had stopped working. He said “You like to tinker with stuff, here you go” He purchased it about a year and a half ago, and it just stopped making ice.
After a quick test, I determined the little pump wasn’t working. I took the pump out, cleaned it (with a vinegar and water solution), put it back together and it worked perfectly.
I felt bad keeping it, so I called my neighbor and told him I fixed it in a few minutes, did he want it back. He said “Nope – enjoy”.
Sunshine loves ice during the summer, but hates filling the ice trays, so now she has her own personal ice maker!!
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