so I hear a big BANG yesterday morning

[radfringe]

no it wasn't knuckledragger...

it was our furnace -- could smell oil fumes. I raced down celler and the vent pipe to the chimney was tilted off the top of the furnace.

I put it back together - and shut down the furnace.

We called the repair guy - and had visions of mega-bucks going up the chimney.

and surprise surprise - the repair guy came right over!

it was the fuel pump - (old furnace) and a couple of other parts connected to it. Two hours later it was fixed - about $200.00 -- much less than we feared...

phew!

[Heddi]

1. Oh! The simple pleasures of adulthood, right? :)

Hubby and I are renters but we have our own washer, dryer, fridge & stove. Well, a few months ago the fridge went out and we had to buy a new one--completely inevitable but still $400 we weren't expecting to have to shell out right then.

Then a few weeks later the dryer started shaking and whining and shimmying around. Now mind you, this dryer is older than *ME*, and I'll be 30 in a few weeks. It's harvest gold fer goodness' sake. The thing practically runs on diesel. But it's big as a house and is so efficient it can dry clothes BEFORE you put them in there :)

Anyway--we're totally freaking. Oh god. Gotta get a new dryer. What's THAT gonna cost? So we call a repair guy and he comes out and we're wringing our hands and gnashing our teeth at the estimate to repair..

dun dun dunnnnnnn

$80. Replaced a rotor or something. Put some oil somewhere. Said our dryer is "easy to fix" and that if we ever had probs in the future that it would be more cost effective to repair than to replace since the newer ones aren't as cheaply fixable as the old ones are.

We were like "Sweet!"

And it was at that moment that I realized I was a full fledged adult, my life flashed before my eyes, and I grew a patch of grey hair overnight.....

[July]

6. My husband and I realized we were getting older when we had great fun

buying a wet/dry vac and a sewing machine.

[Robeson]

2. Jeebus, radfringe. Between the kitty episode you just got over....

...and now this, you've had it hitting you from all sides...:freak:

[radfringe]

3. I know

but the fact our knuckledragger neighbor has his house up for sale keeps us smiling through our little "events"

[Robeson]

4. That's a MAJOR positive!....

...:thumbsup:

I know when our skinhead neighbors moved from across the street, we were jumping for joy!

[Love Bug]

5. You lucked out!

A friend of mine lives in a brownstone in St. Paul. Her furnace is one of those big octopus-looking things. A few years ago the furnace died on NEW YEARS EVE and it cost her $10k to replace it. Ouch!

[Ellen Forradalom]

7. and lo!

The universe was born!