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rinso

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My parents 1957 Gray Oldsmobile 2 door sedan without a radio. Could a vehicle BE more boring!?
My 1979 Hotpoint BOL dishwasher. The bottom of the line of the bottom of the line. What a POS!
My 1976 Whirlpool solid disc electric range. Like a step backward in time.
My 1985 Wards/Norge blow job Lint-O-Matic dryer.
My 1965 Wards frequency response impaired console stereo.
My 1968 Motorola Quasar "Works in a drawer" color TV. More like "Doesn't Works in a drawer."
My 1968 Ford Galaxie 500 road noise special 4-door hardtop.
My 1988 Pontiac Lux-O-Lemon Grand Prix SE....never has one car stranded so many.

Anyone care to add your list of bad choices?
 
Indeed...

My 1961 Kenmore. Never has a machine required quite so much and returned quite so little.
My 2000 Chevrolet Malibu. The first car with a reliability record that taught me what hitchhiking was.
My 1975 GE dishwasher. I'm convinced that clean dishes could go in, and still come out at least slightly dirty. GE's patented Crumb*Glo wash action stored all small food particles until the final rinse, whereupon they rejoined the water.
My 2001 iBook. It was slow, but at least the keycaps fell off.
My 1999 Eureka SmartVac. A gorgeous vacuum that ate belts, and no parts could ever be had. Not from Sears, not from vac shops--nowhere. Go figure.
 
Where do I start........

my 1999 Maytag Neptune 4000 was more'high matainence' than my ex.I was ready to rent Ole lonely a room because he was there so much, and he had abs like a fire fighter.I could do laundry on those, this is when all of your clothes become hand washables!!
my ex Brad, though he was really hot, just not right for each other
my new old repoduction Big Ben alarm clock thatlost five minutes a day
The GE dishwasher was very much the same, located in an apartment that I rented in Washington state.It broke on Thanksgiving--I took it apart and it was full of straws, broken glass, and drinking straws. Someone has alot of fun with it obviously.:)
My account at Bank of America ,now I know what B of A really stands for!
My boss at my old branch,what a Drama queen!!i take that back, Queen of the Drama Queens,

Otherwise i am doing pretty good. :)
 
Thankfully, I haven't had too much bad luck with stuff. here's my list:

1985 Honda Prelude: consumed more coolant than gasoline. Charging system smaller than electrical load, rusting from the inside out

1992 Honda pushmower: alumnium deck cracked & broke apart, bad bearings in the engine

1986 Kenwood HT2600 HAM radio: CMOS battery kept going bad requiring a $90 repair

1999 Fridigaire: B.O.L. dishwasher. Very slow, very noisey, didn't clean all that good. Replaced it with a Hobart Kitchenaid

Things I expected to be bad, but really suprised me:

1984 Samsung 12 inch TV: Mom bought for $100 at target...still using today, crystal clear picture, great mechanical tuner

unknown year GE portacool: Picked it up out of the trash, cleaned it up, been running it in my shed for the past 3 years

1999 Harbor Breese ceiling fan: Bought for $20, it's perfectly balanced, and quiet...just as good as a genuine Hunter!
 
Everybody give the boy a *clap*

*LOL*

My vented comb-o-matic 110v washer-dryer. It blew lint EVERYWHERE and would not take a standard 4" (100mm) round exhaust duct.

Of course now I would have configured a sheet metal transition piece... but then I was a mere innocent lazy pup...
 
Hmmm

1986 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme 2 door(My first brand new car) was dark maroon but should have been yellow for all the trouble that car was!
My Ex- Jason, I was nothing more than a bank to him.
My last apartment - a step back in time, and no matter how many times I steam cleaned the carpet it still smelled funny.
My former manager Bernadette - A seriously under-medicated woman, it's tough to work for someone you always have to walk on eggshells around.
Neighbors - I don't remember their names, but was a single mom and 2 teenage kids, a boy and a girl. Momma liked to sleep around, many times I would see her coming home early in the am looking like an unmade bed, and the kids were little alcoholics in the making. More than few times on Friday nights I'd come home from practicing and momma would be out, and the kids would have a party, and there would be someone barfing on my front lawn. Man did I rejoice when the "For Sale" sign went up in front of their house!
 
Condo

Glad I don't have my first condo....Was 'breeder' city....Kids everywhere...and you know how cruel they can be.
It was a great 'starter' and a step in bringing me to another turning point.
Also hated the builder's grade Modern Maid dishwasher...cleaned like CRAP.
And those god awful green shag carpets, along with the particle board kitchen cabinets.
And the rec room walnut paneling.
Memories.....
 
My 1994 (first year) Kia Sephia. In the six months I drove it, it went in under warrenty 18 times.
 
You don't like f*** trophies?

child, my downstairs neighbors in the co-op came in with one "in-the-oven" and left with three, three years later.

All I ever smelled was dirty diapers.
I also had the joy of hearing the two being made.
 
Toggle--- It was a LONG time ago. It was a gift I brought back with me while playing in a club in Winnipeg, Canada. It's connected with the story of us getting kicked out of Canada. Suffice to say it was an unforgettable experience, all 'round.
 
1975 Chevrolet Vega or as I called it "Vaguely" It vaguely resemble a car ! It would even rust in the desert.

1984 Chevrolet Chevette! It was only meant to be a filler car between my Toyota and Honda. Just in case you thought I had not learned my lesson with the Vega. It's nick name was The Shove-it.

Anything TEAC their products seem to have one goal in life to be disposable.

My former partner who loved my dog more that me !

The dog my former partner loved more than me ( He…. the dog…I mean the 4 legged one... went to a good home lots of kids).

Not one to complain !
 
I'm glad I don't have

TWO GE dishwashers. Neither could clean worth a damn.

Ditto matching GE washer/dryer pair that came with the condo.

1984 Toyota Tercel. Can't say anything good about that car.

My former boss, Michael. He was stupid and evil, a particularly loathsome combination.

My old apartment and neighborhood. Don't miss either of 'em one little bit.

I think I've been pretty satisfied with everything else.

veg
 
*Bakersfield, CA (hated living there!!)
*Odessa, TX (hated growing up there!!)
*1973 Oldsmobile Cutlass (highway sign green, white vinyl top)
*1984 Mercury Lynx (the worst car I ever owned!!)
*Church of Christ (no offense intended to anyone who might be a member, but it was torture for a gay kid growing up)
*Depression era buffet that I thought would NEVER sell in my antique booth!
*Harvest gold plastic dinnerware, hand-me-downs from Grandma to Momma
*Momma & Daddy's 1978 Dodge Aspen station wagon
*My cheapie childhood bedroom set....the slats under the boxsprings would fall on the bare tile floor during the night!
 
In 2 weeks, I'll be glad to have gotten rid of that damn noisy, squeaky, cheap twin-size bed I'm sleeping in currently. Move one muscle and you'll get an annoying squeak. That bed will NOT enter my new house.
 
the CORVAIR...

A 1966 two-door I bought in about 1970. It turned out to be a relentless money sink. It was a ball to drive on dry pavement, but on a wet road if you had to stop quick, it wanted to swap ends. The only, only thing I ever found to temper the memory of that beast was found on a web site called "the Fabulous Ruins of Detroit". One of the examples of closed-down business is a gas station/repair shop on the east side called "Brothers Service". John Brothers was the principal beneficiary of my Corvair woes, as he was one of the few mechanics who would still work on them at the time. I have nothing against him personally, and I'm sorry if his business failed, but man...

The story ends thus: I left it in my parents' driveway one fall when I went back to college. It leaked oil so bad I was afraid I would never get rid of it. My mother managed to advertise it and sell it, to her everlasting credit and my amazement.
 
Don't you wish you woulda hung onto it?

Corvairs now are rather sought after, especially the higher-performance coupes and convertibles. I dated a girl in high school with a Corvair Corsa convertible...same year as yours. We met when she literally ran into me in her Corvair. I was driving my old 78 Civic through, when she backed out of a parking space and tagged my door....Didn't do a thing to her Corvair. I had to install a new door on my Civic! She paid for the new door, and we spent a lot of time together after all the "business" was done! Her little Corvair was a fun little ride that handled very good. Yes, you're right tho, that car did want to get squirrely if the brakes were hit hard! I don't remember her ever having any oil leaks in hers, but the engine sounded like a VW bug with a bad attitude! I didn't think it was all that bad of a car really, and I thought the Corvair really got an unjust bad reputation after experiencing her's. I think the car was simply just ahead of it's time...If it was created in 1971 or something, after the gas crisis, it probably would have fared much better than the Pinto's and Vegas of the time.

We ended up drifting apart after we went to separate colleges.
 

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