Saturday morning came to a halt because of a one dollar part.

Saturday morning clothe washing:

Loaded in my dirty clothes. Filled the detergent tray. Shut the front loading door. Hmm? Something wrong. Door will not latch. Washer will not run without latching. Maybe a sock stuck in the door jam. Hmm. Nope. Looked all around the door and door facing.
Ah Haa! Here it is. Tiny plastic latch hook broke. Latch hook broke. Possibly a one dollar item. A one dollar item that makes or brakes a washer.
Why would a self respecting manufacturer make a plastic latch that would prevent the entire front loading washer from working if part is broke. What happened to metal parts. A metal part here would only increase the part price by another dollar. A two dollar metal part. Especially a part that is so needed and vulnerable to slamming and abuse. But no. The part is plastic. How stupid.

It’s like launching a space shuttle dependent on a internal switch powered by a rubber band. Then if the one cent rubber band brakes then, the whole flight is scrubbed.

Washer machine engineers certainly must be smarter than that. Right? Well, I guess not. Why bother with metal when plastic is so readily available. Love that plastic. It’s American way of making things.

Now the whole thing is inoperable. A hundred pounds of scrap. In its present form a pile of junk waiting for the crusher. Kaa-scrunk! Worth more as scrap metal than in its present stage of disrepair. Just a convenient surface to pile dog food and laundry detergent upon.

In the mean time all my dirty clothes are in the front loading tumbler soaked with liquid detergent. Dirty and not possible to wear. What to do?

So, not only are iPhones programmatic, but so are poorly engineered front loading washers as well. Where’s my hammer?