How a Washer Repair Helped Me Understand My Purpose
Every so often, I have the sanctifying joy of disassembling our Bosch front-loader washer. This isn’t one of those joys like building a Lego set where everything clicks into place nicely. It’s more the type of joy that involves scraped hands, craned necks, and lots of opportunities for biting my tongue instead of grumbling. Here’s the thing: it’s my family’s fault. We have a tendency to keep copious amounts of change and a large amount of lint in our pockets, which all gets rattled out in the wash and then promptly stuck in the too-small-for-change-and-homemade-lint-creatures drain pipe. The tiny pipe is a design flaw, to say the least, because you have to literally remove half of the exterior of the washer and a fair amount of the interior to extract whatever abandoned your pockets, all while contorting yourself like a Cirque du Soleil understudy. ...