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A real experience for me circa. 2000-something:

You go into a thrift/resale/junk shop and immediately look to your left where the appliances would be just for the lady-owner of the store to tell you: "THERE ARE NO APPLIANCES!" and keeps asking you: "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?!" when you got your head locked & face frozen in that direction, only to see a fitting room ("THAT'S A FITTING ROOM", she also screamed at me) in that far corner where, well, you thought was appliances, yes, she only sold clothes ("I only sell clothes...", she said calmly), bed of story...

-- Dave
 
I dreamed I was driving my dream-yellow Cadillac Coupe De Ville (1977, most-likely) and while stopped at the corner probably on my way to my dad's (maybe to put it away in his garage) noticed the under dash lights on--and turned the light switch to see the center-map reading lights on (on the lower part of the dash board) and the rear pillar lights didn't go on (they were burned out) and don't remember the square lights on the doors lighting (maybe they didn't work) but it was raining as hard as it is today and somehow my daughter going on seven-years-old in a few days was perhaps not even seven-MONTHS-old in the back seat & the car stalled as the light was still red & I was playing w/ the lights inside while the wipers were rapidly pushing away the rain & the windshield fogged up (& somehow this car had some bullet-proof shield right there in the windshield) but I got her started as the light turned red (I wonder why I didn't dream about the instrument panel warning lights going on & off) and said (to Laura back there) "I'm gonna watch where & when I drive this car, from now on"...

 

(I was actually sleeping at my dad's 'cause my brother-in-law was staying at my house late & beyond each other's tolerance...)

 

--Then I woke up...

 

 

-- Dave
 
Typo: "It was when the light turned GREEN..."

And I'm sure I said: "I'm gonna be careful when & where I drive this car" as she restarted & I was about to turn the corner (9 MI & Greenfield Rd. No turn on Red) onto 9 Mile, Oak Park, Southfield...

 

"I'm looking for OZZY!" (as in Osborn) said one kid looking for records at a K Mart type store; me, it was Billy Joel (somehow this dude, yes, my age, but much more sophisticated in his musical tastes had freakin' never heard of--we were probably both between Teens & just-finished Tweens)... Luckily product to point out to him--wonder why in 5th Grade one of my classmates brought in his copy of 52nd STREET when BJ's latest was GLASS HOUSES, circa. 1980-1981, and that prev. summer following a miserable experience at Day Camp, had just been introduced to stuff like "It's Still Rock 'N' Roll To Me", etc. and this contemporary of mine was not the least bit familiar--but, hey!--what did I know even about Black Sabbath, other than a few snatches of stuff from PARANOID, like the title, when it had just come out?!--well, that's where I'd yet to learn where Ozzy Osborn was FROM! He'd just begun his David Surkamp-like career, but I'd sooner caught up on Black Sab! --Yadda, yada, yada... (And so on, Etcetera...)

 

What should I link to here by any et. al/either? Another "More Than I Can Say" vid' by Leo; it was a toss-up what to have put on my pre. post:

 

 

-- Dave

 
I burst out laughing (foaming at the mouth--saliva, drool splashing on the floor, almost hitting the laundry I was taking out of my dryer) when I thought about the very old Kenmore that one of my child-hood friends had (next to a newer one-knob Kenmore washer--now thinking about THAT should'a been what had me ROTF!) that had a small incandescent console appliance light, bigger than a night-light bulb over the big Timer/Automatic Drying knob, that probably didn't work; wonder what the original washer to that even was--both got replaced by VERY BOL Mont. Ward machines--yeeh, why wasn't I gassed up over the thought  of those?!

Out of nowhere--my friend said "We need a new dryer, referring to that one in his laundry room--and I forgot where we were, maybe in school--a study hall, as we were a couple grades apart, him in 6th grade, beginning middle school, and me, in 8th, leaving for high school--and we became friends w/ not only him, living on the next block from me, but coming over apologizing for hurting my li'l sis' in school (they were in the same class--he was just teasing her, actually)...

 

Just being really thankful, I guess, for having good, newish, working (as well as Repairable) Appliances!!!!

 

 

-- Dave

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Mom asked me what my bus driver's name was... Ms. FREEZER, I told her--(it was really FRAZIER...)--so she seemed to get mad that I should find use for a term for an APPLIANCE, there... "That's NOT her real name, now!", she angrily retorted back to me...

 

(A big rotund African-American lady that I think I had a bit of a crush on--and on my 2nd grade teacher, a big, rotund black-haired caucasian woman, too...)

 

 

-- Dave
 
With me, its looking carefully at every appliance and asking questions about them every time. I will now ask if any of theirs are not what they thought they were going to be, do they like them or not. Not that I would buy new appliances unless I absolutely had to. Ironically, nobody scoffs me now and think I am a brain on appliances. But when I was a kid asking about a washer I was too short to even look in was yelled at to "Get away from that". Now they ask me for advice.[this post was last edited: 1/11/2017-19:43]
 
Yes, imagine being so appliance-obsessed back then! I was--it was grama's big green top freezer Kelvinator refrigerator, her GE filter-flo washer w/ the left-opening lid, her BOL Kelvinator dryer w/ the horizontal controls--an up to 120-minute timer and a toggle switch for heat on, heat off and the list surely goes on and on...

My friend and I were playing with our building toys and I wanted to make an an electric stove and he wanted a gas stove, ("NO ELECTRIC STOVES! GAS STOVES!" he shouted) and I wanted a to build a gas dryer ("NO GAS DRYERS! ELECTRIC DRYERS!" he also shouted) and he wanted an electric dryer...

-- Dave
 
re: Post# 860537 on 2016-01-07; 08:13:55

I somehow did this (that) again:

 

(Undershirts--tank tops as were as those, really--drawers, and yesterday's 'T'; it was my day off, to wear it...)

 

But, I will dry this on the next-to-highest (not Highest) heat setting, as I have to do my daughter's stuff next & her dryer temp (Delicate) is too far from the top most setting that the dryer is on now... The Speed is easier to change--'cause I didn't turn it all the way down to Hang Dry... --Wash & Wear!)

 

 

-- Dave

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An AW.org Dream: at the corner of Gratiot and _____ ? ____ (Insert Street Name) ______ ? ______ where I dried my clothes in a center-Dial Maytag gas dryer, w/ the pilot access door glowing orange as the dryer ran, even opening it & throwing a couple things into the flames 🔥...!!!! (Put money into the machine somewhere if this where a commercial laundromat, well laundry ROOM! (And when was the washing? Where was the washer?)

-- Dave
 
Here ya go

 

 

Cook 1 pound of elbow macaroni 2 minutes shy of the shorter cooking time on the package.

 

While you're waiting for the water (3 1/2 quarts in a 5-quart Visions or CorningWare Pyroceram Dutch oven) to come to a boil, fold together 2 15-ounce cans of chili (with or without beans as desired) and a pound of shredded cheddar cheese in a large mixing bowl.

 

Before draining the macaroni, ladle a cup of the cooking water into the chili and cheese.  While the macaroni drains, stir the water, chili and cheese until blended.  Dump in the drained macaroni and fold together until the cheese starts to melt into strings.

 

Wipe out the Dutch oven and spray it with nonstick cooking spray.  Dump the mixture into the Dutch oven.  Cover with lid.

 

At this point the Dutch oven can be refrigerated until dinner time.

 

Bake covered from a cold start (disable the fast preheat feature if your oven is so equipped) at 350 degrees F for 45 minutes, let stand another 15 minutes before serving.
 
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