Back to Normal

The dishwasher repairman came today. He actually showed!!!! Things are back to normal and my hands no longer have wrinkles from sink water. Thanks to Stefan's convincing arguments with Whirlpool that a 3 year old dishwasher (that was 2 years past its warranty) should not be having catastrophic failures like this, they agreed to cover the service charge and labor leaving us to pay for the parts. Whoever authorized this either misspoke or entered the information into their system wrong because the repairman was insistent that we were responsible for service and labor and that Whirpool was covering the parts. Good thing because the parts alone were more than $500. We have a new motor and timer (essentially a new machine altogether). A new machine would have cost less.

Anyway, we are back in the 21st century and I couldn't be happier!