Stuology

But…the…and…grrrr

Oct 19th, 2008By: Mellystu Comments 1

Early this morning…like 1:00am early this morning, Mac and I heard this strange beeping. He hadn’t been home for long, going out to a friend’s birthday party while I stayed home with the kids and packed. So, we were still awake. Our first thoughts was it was originating in the kids’ room. Even though most of their noise making toys are in the basement, it would be the first logical place to go when you hear strange beeping. At least from our bedroom. We stepped in the room, and heard nothing. Waited. Nothing. Then we heard it except it was now coming from behind us. We both spin around and look in the laundry closet. It is the dryer. I say, “Why is it on 65 minutes^*?” as opposed to just saying “Why is it on?” See, I hadn’t turned the dryer on. I hit the stop button. It falls silent and all the lights turn off. We go back to bed, and just a moment later we hear the beeping again. We go back, and the dryer is on again, set to the highest settings with 65 minutes left to dry. I hit the stop button. We stand there and wait, and it turns back on again. I tell Mac to take the clothes out, like I’m trying to save them or something. I hold the off button for awhile. Then we step back, and once again, it turns itself on. Mac unplugs it, and we go back to bed. We lie there for a bit, just listening. I say, “If that dryer comes back on..that dryer better not come back on.” We agreed that we’d have to move out if it did. It didn’t.

We have left it unplugged. I’m going to plug it back in as soon as I post this. Hopefully it will stay off. Auto-start was not a feature that was listed in the specs of this dryer. If it does it again, we can add it to the list of things in our house that is breaking.

*Our dryer gives an estimated count down of minutes until it is done drying.