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How to shatter your nebula in one easy step
Leave it to me to figure out how to sprain my kidney and shatter my nebula all in the name of thrifty household repair.
It all started when I put a load of sheets in the dryer… Two minutes into their cycle, I heard a buzz. “They can’t be ready yet,” I said to the disposal.
“Buzz,” said the dryer again. “Well, I guess they are ready,” I whistled to the sponge.
But, nope. I was wrong. The dryer just kept on buzzing…and the sheets were still wet as could be. I did a lot of “harumphing,” banging, clanging, climbing around. I unfastened the dryer vent that goes outside, peeked in there for good measure. (Nothing visible because it’s very dark in that long, winding thing.) Turns out it was a mistake to look inside that long thing. Never ever do that.
To peek inside there, I had to climb on the dryer and somehow my left slipper was stuck on the dryer door and my right slipper was stuck on the window sill… This is a bad thing, especially when the dryer door flings open. Thank God I had a hip bone to cushion my fall. Only now my whole left side is numb, black, blue and purple. There goes my centerfold modeling contract with National Geographic.
I decided that 5 days before Christmas is a terrible time to buy a new dryer so I kept at my fix-it plan despite having the wind knocked out of my epidermis. I realized that the dryer knob felt funny so I took it off and got a wrench-like device and turned the little knob under the knob. Voila! This fixed my dryer.
At least I will have dry sheets to line my coffin.
I suggest calling a dryer repair man if you hear a buzzing coming from your dryer.