...instead of the standard 'coffee table' books of breathtaking scenery or inspirational photos, your living room table is the holder of service manuals, parts catalogs, and Tech-Talks.
You Know You're A Member of AW When...
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. . . you remember Salvo and VIM laundry detergent tablets (which were only slightly smaller than a hockey puck) but can't remember which one was blue.
. . . as a child, you pondered the mystery of why Felix the Cat washed a load of clothes but never wore any.
You're with the family in the car, passing by a restaurant w/ the radio on & somehow the piano solo on this song seems to be in perfect timing w/ a portion of the roadside sign's flashing neon--giving you the impression that it's "a dinner bell"...
(Listen for it!)
-- Dave
(Listen for it!)
-- Dave
. . . you'll stop washing your white 100% cotton towels in hot water and chlorine bleach when they pry that jug of Clorox from your cold, dead hand.
You only let Solid Power XL;
Be used in your dishmachine because Ecolab has discontinued the "Real Thing".
WK78
Be used in your dishmachine because Ecolab has discontinued the "Real Thing".
WK78
. . . everything you ate on the Fourth of July was cooked indoors.
speedqueen
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Dave, I know where your dream took place, Uptown Maytag Coin Laundry in Mount Clemens On North Gratiot and Main street. If you search this site for it, you will see my thread on it.
dryclean1
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now for the topper of them all!!!
You know you are a member of automaticwasher.org when your wife willingly goes with you to pick up a vintage washer on her bday and doesnt complain!!! thanks Bill the drycleaner
You know you are a member of automaticwasher.org when your wife willingly goes with you to pick up a vintage washer on her bday and doesnt complain!!! thanks Bill the drycleaner
lordkenmore
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You know you're a member of AW.org when
someone talks about his upcoming move to an apartment, and you get upset because he can't take his beloved washing machine along, and won't have a dishwasher!
someone talks about his upcoming move to an apartment, and you get upset because he can't take his beloved washing machine along, and won't have a dishwasher!
. . . somewhere in the deep dark reaches of your kitchen cabinets lurks a single-purpose small appliance most likely made in the 1980s or 1990s that you used only a single time.
re: Post # 948243, Reply # 266:
Actually the dream took place right at where you enter Roseville North of the freeway, I-696, opposite of Eastpointe, which is South...
At a part of the turnaround on Gratiot where you can't actually turn but go straight onto another street, forcing me to go to the next turnaround so I can go to the record store there BLAST FROM THE PAST, along w/ Eastpoint's MELODIES & MEMORIES that I also frequent...
However, while I am not all the familiar w/ that Laundromat in Mt. Clemens that you speak of, I am fairly familiar w/ that Mt. Clemens area & Macomb Township, where I'd hung out at a lot in my past...
And, regardless, here's what must have been playing long ago, at what was probably my first Center Dial Experience,--when I had, as a very young child, first seen such a Maytag! And I wasn't even playing"Sweet Caroline" or anything by Neil, just quite a flashback in my dreams, vs. my life Today...--at which "Damp Dry" seemed to have been pounded out by the notes just as the song starts:
-- Dave
Actually the dream took place right at where you enter Roseville North of the freeway, I-696, opposite of Eastpointe, which is South...
At a part of the turnaround on Gratiot where you can't actually turn but go straight onto another street, forcing me to go to the next turnaround so I can go to the record store there BLAST FROM THE PAST, along w/ Eastpoint's MELODIES & MEMORIES that I also frequent...
However, while I am not all the familiar w/ that Laundromat in Mt. Clemens that you speak of, I am fairly familiar w/ that Mt. Clemens area & Macomb Township, where I'd hung out at a lot in my past...
And, regardless, here's what must have been playing long ago, at what was probably my first Center Dial Experience,--when I had, as a very young child, first seen such a Maytag! And I wasn't even playing"Sweet Caroline" or anything by Neil, just quite a flashback in my dreams, vs. my life Today...--at which "Damp Dry" seemed to have been pounded out by the notes just as the song starts:
-- Dave
I never did tell the manager of the Subway at the store I'd worked at that I had a dream of her getting the mall (most-likely OAKLAND Mall) to open a Subway there--she'd come out of the corridor where the mall offices are (through solid-metal-windowless fire doors) w/ a stainless steel cart (much like what my store deli uses) w/ samples of her product...
I'm waiting for right opportunity to tell her that--it's been months, and months ago!
-- Dave
I'm waiting for right opportunity to tell her that--it's been months, and months ago!
-- Dave
ovrphil
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When the plot, scene, etc. of a movie or show on tv presents a kitchen or laundry appliances and the focus is, "what was that? what was that?" Or..you buy two or more of the same thing just in case one breaks. Or storage becomes just another utility bill. 
Going into a store and out of nowhere Mom reminds me that I'd said "Iim Bored!", around the parents before they left, at their house we were baby sitting at...
Spoiling my singin' 'n' boppin' along w/ Chicago's "Saturday In The Park" that was just coming on...
-- Dave
Spoiling my singin' 'n' boppin' along w/ Chicago's "Saturday In The Park" that was just coming on...
-- Dave
Oh, Grandpa's Ford Ranchero 500--when the cab filled up w/ the three or more it was only meant to hold--and I got to ride by myself in back in the BED!
Well, there was a cap over it (Sportsliner, made in Zanesville, OH and San Jose California) and we never got pulled over by the police--and I guess I could ride there safely with nothing to hang onto--and the tailgate was even left open & the cap door, up! (Think my sister only once rode with me there) and could say a few bathroom talk words, but alas, I can recall Gramps saying something about Carbon Monoxide and there was the safety matter that ceased riding back there, and just going in an additional vehicle for more people to his garden/fields where he grew his own produce...
-- Dave
Well, there was a cap over it (Sportsliner, made in Zanesville, OH and San Jose California) and we never got pulled over by the police--and I guess I could ride there safely with nothing to hang onto--and the tailgate was even left open & the cap door, up! (Think my sister only once rode with me there) and could say a few bathroom talk words, but alas, I can recall Gramps saying something about Carbon Monoxide and there was the safety matter that ceased riding back there, and just going in an additional vehicle for more people to his garden/fields where he grew his own produce...
-- Dave
Give me an old appliance nameplate (three Kelvinator Product of American Motors) and I'll make a FAKE appliance!
I went from ONE fake air conditioner in my old bedroom made from a cardboard box hung over a window on an outside wall (that I almost made and hung one outside with a handwritten name plate and hung over that window, to two more, hung over/between two windows next to each other and even my bedroom door...
Talk going around a few middle school friends, one who'd been in that bedroom, and the other who'd been told (Chris) telling me: "Marvin said you have a fake air conditioner in your room..." "You have THREE fake air conditioners in your room"...
I was 12 to 14 in Junior High at the time...
-- Dave
I went from ONE fake air conditioner in my old bedroom made from a cardboard box hung over a window on an outside wall (that I almost made and hung one outside with a handwritten name plate and hung over that window, to two more, hung over/between two windows next to each other and even my bedroom door...
Talk going around a few middle school friends, one who'd been in that bedroom, and the other who'd been told (Chris) telling me: "Marvin said you have a fake air conditioner in your room..." "You have THREE fake air conditioners in your room"...
I was 12 to 14 in Junior High at the time...
-- Dave
"Dave got a fake air conditioner in his room!"--Yes, over heard Marvin saying that (after Chris rapping to be about it--"You got THREE fake Air Condtioners!" he whispered)... The FAILED attempt to hang a box for the 1st outside led me to just hang the two more, showing the units INSIDE!
Is it Potpourri, (Poh-porrey) or POT-POREY?!
My mom had me bring a vacuum cleaner into the shop, when I was about that adolescent age to be as frequently corrected by the repair man there as I kept on pronouncing it in the obvious spelling... (And in high school, just a year or couple of years or so later, were posters on the hallway walls about a production of--You Guessed it!--POTPOURRI, that looking at it recalled my awkward mis- pronounciation every time I'd seen them!
-- Dave
Is it Potpourri, (Poh-porrey) or POT-POREY?!
My mom had me bring a vacuum cleaner into the shop, when I was about that adolescent age to be as frequently corrected by the repair man there as I kept on pronouncing it in the obvious spelling... (And in high school, just a year or couple of years or so later, were posters on the hallway walls about a production of--You Guessed it!--POTPOURRI, that looking at it recalled my awkward mis- pronounciation every time I'd seen them!
-- Dave
Well, yeh, the previous post of the potpourri sucked up in the vacuum was done by poor lil' ol' ME! --Probably had to pay for it being repaired for it being clogged up & promised to never do it again, as well...
Have you ever foraged through a loaf of moldy bread w/ a knife and a jar of peanut butter tearing off every piece of each slice that was covered with blue spots just to find as you were eating it, MORE BLUE SPOTS?! --That was my sister and I years ago...--the things you find in a broken or neglected home of neglected, impoverished children, which neither of us were, but still--... (Well, how DID those spots of blue mold get there, or the bread get to be like THAT there?!)
OK, had a dream long ago to 'RLJ' being on the CD player of struttin' through el barrio while "Willie & The White Boys Cool" was comin' on--a speaker on the street played the horn solo, a Walk/Don't Walk-type sign had the lyrics up in lights citing "my pals, Angela, Perry, and Mario", w/ some street player doing the accordion solo, and the vision of the Cheech & Chong van backing up a driveway--probably trampling flowers on the way up there too...
And although I program my CD's in a prefderred order, surely the remaining track "Company" is the wistful image of sitting on a porch on that quiet night that walk through the dusk turned into, and then I woke...
(Well, there was the image of "Danny's All Star Joint", a track that comes several before it, and the 'goings on' in it, but right now not as significant...)
-- Dave
Have you ever foraged through a loaf of moldy bread w/ a knife and a jar of peanut butter tearing off every piece of each slice that was covered with blue spots just to find as you were eating it, MORE BLUE SPOTS?! --That was my sister and I years ago...--the things you find in a broken or neglected home of neglected, impoverished children, which neither of us were, but still--... (Well, how DID those spots of blue mold get there, or the bread get to be like THAT there?!)
OK, had a dream long ago to 'RLJ' being on the CD player of struttin' through el barrio while "Willie & The White Boys Cool" was comin' on--a speaker on the street played the horn solo, a Walk/Don't Walk-type sign had the lyrics up in lights citing "my pals, Angela, Perry, and Mario", w/ some street player doing the accordion solo, and the vision of the Cheech & Chong van backing up a driveway--probably trampling flowers on the way up there too...
And although I program my CD's in a prefderred order, surely the remaining track "Company" is the wistful image of sitting on a porch on that quiet night that walk through the dusk turned into, and then I woke...
(Well, there was the image of "Danny's All Star Joint", a track that comes several before it, and the 'goings on' in it, but right now not as significant...)
-- Dave
"I need all my grain to prosper and grow..."
"NOT I, said the Golden Wheat..."
--Yes, a Sears Kenmore color, the line in this song reminds me of...!
-- Dave
"NOT I, said the Golden Wheat..."
--Yes, a Sears Kenmore color, the line in this song reminds me of...!
-- Dave
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