One of the perks of having an extremely, extremely popular website such as this is that I can occasionally hijack posts to talk about my dryer.
Alright folks, we're having major dryer issues. Consistently, my dryer shuts itself off after a few minutes of running. For those few minutes, it is pumping out hot air and everything is fine. It does this no matter what setting it's on. I checked the exhaust line and verified that, when the dryer's running, all of the bad crap is getting sucked out through the exhaust. So, what do I do now? Anybody have any ideas?
In the extremely likely event that I can't make this thing work again, I have two options. The first is to buy a new dryer. As the street people say, this ain't happenin'; I'm not made out of GE gift cards. The second, almost charming option is to erect a clothesline in the backyard. While my clothes would be stiff as a board and stink of alley cats, I could dry as many shirts as I want for free. I'd also get some valuable life lessons, such as "Never buy a dryer from a crazy dude off of Craigslist."
(Unspoken option number three: buy ANOTHER dryer from the same crazy dude off of Craigslist! Statistical analysis tells me that there is no way that a dude with a garage full of dryers has more than one bad dryer in there. There's just no way.)
(Another bad option, that happens to be number four: just wear wet clothes. That sounds weird and abrasive.)
I'll go back to watching the All Star Game now, and hoping that some magical clothes-drying fairy sneaks into my house and hooks me up in my sleep.
Posted by Cody at July 10, 2007 10:18 PM