Friday night started out to be a normal weekend evening. Steve and I picked up some groceries and rented a movie, something that had the "Devil" in the title. We always laugh when we pick something that says it is a thriller because neither of us like movies that get too scary or gross, but we enjoy a good "sit on the edge of your seat" kind every now and then. We had picked this one out online before we left home and thought it would be a good one. We kept making small jokes back and forth about how the devil was going to take over our weekend......well, let me tell you, if the devil can cause stuff to happen then we have the evidence!
We got home and had snacks ready, DVD in the player and suddenly it would not play. So, we started trying different things and realized not only would it not play but now it would not eject either!!!! It took both of us getting on the floor in front of all of the equipment with ALL of the remote controls that we possess to finally get things rolling. We got the DVD out, put in a different one and found that our player was working fine. We probably wasted nearly an hour with all of this. So, I called the Redbox people and they marked this one for destruction. After I looked on the back of it, I realized why it had given us so much trouble....it looked like someone had taken a pair of scissors and ran them across it back and forth!! They even gave us a couple of free rentals...not that it is a big deal since the rental is a dollar! But, there we were at 9 pm on a Friday night without a movie, so we just watched an older movie we had recorded on the DVR. Not too bad.
This morning, the "devil" attacked again. As you know we have been replacing appliances...long overdue. Steve hooked up the washer and dryer (just before he put on his last pair of clean undies, I believe!) and I loaded the washer for the first load. We had to buy the new High Efficiency detergent this week for this machine, which is a little more expensive. Steve had set it on top of the washer to be handy for me to use. I put everything in the washer and then came into the den to work on wedding invitation envelopes (my heavens....I'm just on the H's!!!! see there's another connection...like, as in Hell!!).
Well, as Steve worked on installing the new dishwasher I thought it was about time that the first load should be finished, so I went back to move them to the dryer. I thought it was odd that the gallon jug of detergent was now on the floor...maybe Steve had moved it....but no, wait....YIKES....the jug is empty!!!! Apparently during the spin cycle, the gallon of detergent took a spin off of the machine (that Steve says he may not have balanced completely) and landed just right to knock a hole in the jug and empty the entire gallon contents onto the floor all behind the new washer and dryer. What a mess! See the devil was at work again!!! Oh, and in the middle of that cleanup, I went back into the kitchen where he had been working to get a screwdriver for him and Koko (our old dog) had realized Steve had taken the trash can out of the cabinet and thought perhaps it was meant for her to rummage through. She had it all over the kitchen floor!!! Egg shells, trash from all week and everything you can imagine. Then I had to go back to "goo city" where we have the washer/dryer. You just can't imagine what a mess it was to clean up...detergent is so sticky and yucky too. The only good thing is that it smells so good. I don't know what made Steve the most upset...the mess or the fact that we lost a whole gallon of that expensive detergent!
So, this afternoon we went back to the rental box and got another copy of the "DEVIL" movie again and watched it tonight, bought some more detergent too. Maybe that will end our curse and tomorow things will go right. We have one direction to go from here!!
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