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ven have a golf course in our community but lots of people still have golf carts some do so for mobility issues but let s face it they re just cool to zip around in whether running up to the club house for happy hour or decorating for holiday golf cart parades mulled wine spider webs and witches hats for halloween fireballs peppermint schnapps and twinkle lights for christmas golf carts are the fun way to go time was many of us would dance the night away close the place down and then go out for breakfast we could still get up on time the next day fresh as a daisy now we need to get a jump on bedtime if we want to have any chance of getting in 5 6 hours of decent sleep what with the insomnia night sweats and endless trips to the bathroom all social activities here are scheduled so we are home in our jammies by 9 and we re okay with that although i have yet to demand someone s visitor pass i do find myself eyeballing anyone who isn t our kind of people i don t care about ethnicity or skin color my squinty eyed scrutiny is only triggered if that skin is unwrinkled then i start wondering if said young person is here to burgle us or even worse use the pool without the proper authorization pickleball which has taken the place of shuffleboard for the active over the hill crowd nuff said everybody s busy we re doing yoga zumba line dancing water aerobics pickle ball bike rides golf and going for walks we ve got groups for playing cards photography stained glass painting knitting and just about every hobby there is this doesn t even cover the concerts dances and any other excuse you can think of to get together and drink before i moved here i was a slug by comparison as we boogie into our golden years we have adopted neil young s mantra it s better to burn out than to rust everybody s friendly it s an unwritten rule that you smile and wave when you pass someone here whether on foot bike or car i lived in the same town for more than 35 years and still had a hard time finding friends to do things with especially after my husband died and i was no longer part of a couple almost everyone here is from somewhere else we left behind our lifelong support networks of siblings friends we ve known since 1 st grade co workers kids and grandkids without these to nurture and or need us we have to be open to new people or we wind up staying home alone in an over 55 community you can t swing a dead cat without hitting a widow so there s a ready supply of people in the same boat as you people who need a friend happy hour is no more why should one hour in the day have all the fun now that most of us are retired we re getting happy around the clock at home the bar was a couple of dusty bottles of rum and gin we stuck above the refrigerator where the kids couldn t get at them ha now i have an actual bar i ve got separate glassware for wine beer martinis and margaritas i m constantly on the lookout for cool accessories and have even developed a signature cocktail the grapefruit sunset i ve never drunk so much in my life that s probably why we take part in all those healthy sporting activities the exercise helps burn off the alcohol before it turns into sugar which fries the liver i m pretty sure that s how the science works keeping up with the joneses involves patio amenities since we all live on top of one another and that life is lived mainly outside at least here in arizona i ve had plenty of opportunity in the last year to see how the other half lives it made me feel ashamed i hid behind my curtains when well meaning neighbors with superior patio set ups dropped by with an invitation how could i reciprocate my rickety rusty table and folding chairs could never provide the oasis of hospitality i longed for those days are gone i remodeled the tiny backyard to include several seating areas one by the water with a fire pit one daughter got me a patio heater for christmas the other an outdoor speaker and i invested in a substantial set of comfy outdoor furniture now i can hold my head up high and host drinks and apps on the patio with pride i don t want to brag but did i mention the heater is the professional kind like at restaurants the fire pit is gas and the cushions are genuine sunbrella as we get older our opinions harden into undisputable facts which we are not shy about sharing this generally isn t a problem out in the world because younger people like grandchildren have been taught to listen politely and not contradict their elders when everybody else around you is just as old just as opinionated and just as convinced that their way of thinking is the only valid opinion it can make for some tense conversations doesn t matter if the topic is world politics or when the sprinklers should go on in the common areas which of course is the middle of the night when most of us are not in danger of getting squirted because we are at home trying to get just a few minutes of quality sleep as anyone with a brain will agree share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x like loading posted in general ramblings tagged aging humor life musings 19 comments life loss and my 23 year old top loading maytag washer posted on august 26 2021 by pegoleg it is a truth universally known that appliances die in threes you watch in helpless dread when the dishwasher starts leaking because you know your breakdown woes have just begun appliance blight will almost certainly spread you can only hope it chooses a minor appliance like the toaster or blender as the next victim but you know the neighboring stove and fridge are vulnerable it may even horror of homeowner horrors jump floors to infect the furnace three is bad enough but that s supposed to be the end of it it s practically a law of nature right which is why i m protesting i seem to be getting more than my share this year started off well enough my husband bill retired at the end of last year and i cut way back on my hours at work we rented a house in arizona for the month of february trying new things and avoiding the worst of a horrid illinois winter bill wound up in the hospital with pneumonia but we still had a great trip shortly after we got home we both experienced montezuma s revenge something one associates with 3 rd world countries not central illinois bill got it worse than i we had our well tested and i was with bill in the hospital again when we got the results our water was contaminated with both coliform and e coli a particularly nasty bug the well company come out the next day and bombed the well with chlorine and i started lugging jugs of water from bill s sister s house while we waited for the chlorine to do its job a week later the water softener we had been renting for more than 20 years died i like my poisoned water to be soft so the culligan guy came out to go over options we wound up having a new one installed to the tune of 2 300 we had the well tested again the following week and still had the double whammy of coliform and e coli i scheduled the well company to come and chlorine bomb it again 160 minimum each time they turned into the driveway the next week our refrigerator which was only 8 years old got bored with the same old same old of keeping the temperatures at 0 in the freezer and 37 in the refrigerator it wanted to mix things up and started playing dial a temp gifting me with frozen carrots and pasta salad along with semi liquid ice cream i called the local repair sales place who had originally installed most of our appliances and the repairman came to look at the fridge he sat in my driveway for 15 minutes when he came in he didn t take out a single tool didn t break a sweat or even bend over just opened the fridge door looked in and announced it would cost 500 600 to fix supposing he could get the parts which was a big suppose i said no thank you time for a new one i did my due diligence checked out consumer reports asked friends then went comparison shopping i found out there s some sort of chip shortage due to covid everything is due to covid so refrigerators are as hard to find as a helpful customer service person at the dmv the local place didn t have anything under 2200 and even at that price they couldn t guarantee a delivery date i went to every place in town and a couple places out of town looking for something that was in stock would fit my small space and would not break the bank slim pickings i settled on one for 1500 from a big box store and scheduled delivery for 2 weeks later i adjusted the temperature on my current fridge 10 times a day and prayed that it wouldn t die before the replacement arrived since i wasn t buying from them the local shop sent me a bill for 89 for the 15 minutes their teenage repairman had spent standing in front of my open fridge the next week i asked the guy who mows the lawn for an estimate to take down a small dead maple tree that was leaning precariously close to my screen porch he looked around and pointed to a much larger tree which was also leaning toward the house and which towered over both the maple tree and the house that s the bigger risk he announced it s also dying about 750 should take care of both of them unless we run into problems i told him to put in on his schedule time for another water test i d been hauling water back and forth from the in laws for more than a month going so far as to boil water on the still working thank god stove a couple of times like i was living in a little house on the prairie episode surely everything was ok now the email i received from the lab the next day said that my water woes were here to stay the day of the new refrigerator finally dawned i spent the evening before cleaning out the old one saying goodbye to a trash bag full of my fast food condiment hoard frozen produce and a surprisingly large assortment of ancient half used bottles of sauces and dressings i transferred everything that would fit from the freezer section to the chest freezer down the basement then lugged up and cleaned out coolers in preparation for the big day when the deliverymen called to say they were 20 minutes away i loaded all the perishables into the coolers and dragged them into the dining room they had to remove my front door no fun when it s over 90 degrees outside and they broke my mom s sterling silver candelabra in the process but soon the new fridge was installed i waited a couple of hours while the new unit cooled then reversed the unloading process that evening i went down the basement to start a load of wash i was pleased to have one problem solved and was considering a more permanent water solution as i pulled the knob out on the washing machine to start it filling and nothing no mechanical sounds no water i checked the water lines they looked good the thing was plugged in i tried the dryer also nothing aha if neither one was working something must have tripped a circuit easy peasy problem solved i flipped the breaker back on heard a popping sound and the breaker flipped itself back off hmmm i flipped the breaker on yet again and wisps of smoke started coming out of my 23 year old top loading maytag washer i m not mechanically inclined but even i know that it is a very bad sign when an appliance smokes i unplugged both the washer and dryer and monitored them for a few minutes to make sure the house wasn t about to go up in flames then trudged upstairs defeated i had been a savvy shopper with the fridge with the washer i didn t care the next day i drove to a local store the same store that was charging me 89 for 15 minutes of their repairman s time i asked the sales lady in the showroom if they had a washing machine in stock any washing machine i didn t care about the brand the color whether it was high efficiency was programmable or came in an on trend midnight charcoal brushed quartz finish if it was in stock and affordable if it meant i wouldn t be beating underwear against the rocks in our creek i would write a check that very minute if i added they would waive the 89 fee for the fruitless refrigerator visit a couple of weeks earlier for some reason that had become important to me getting that fee waived had become a symbol that the universe was still fair my recent experiences to the contrary she explained that 89 was their minimum service call charge even though they were 5 minutes down the road from me and the guy merely stopped by on his way back to the shop at the end of the day but i think she could tell that i was at the end of my rope my chin was quivering despite my best efforts my eyes were filling with tears and i was having a hard time keeping it together she agreed to waive the service fee she wrote up the sale i don t even remember what it cost and scheduled delivery i paid and practically ran to my car fastest major appliance sale ever i lost it once i was safely in my car i put my head down and covered my face so people outside couldn t see me wouldn t hear me wail as great gulping sobs wracked my body i couldn t stop crying it was too much the water softener the well bill the refrigerator the trees and now the washing machine it was the last straw it was too much loss too many deaths all in a few short months i didn t know how i could bear it eventually i stopped crying i took deep shuddering breaths wiped my streaming eyes and nose with my sleeve and slowly calmed down at last i felt able to put the car into gear back out of the appliance store parking lot and drive home tired to my bones i know life will go on i know that eventually the pain of loss will lessen and i won t cry all the time as i am doing at this very moment as i type this but i loved my 23 year old top loading maytag washer i don t think i fully appreciated how deeply until it was gone and dear god i will miss it every day for as long as i live read this please while the bits about my appliances are all true hiding in the fluff is the only loss that i give a damn about bill my dear husband of 38 years died it was my bad if anyone felt uncomfortable because they missed the main point humor has long been my way of coping and it is so difficult to say it straight out it s still so difficult to believe rest in peace my love bill schulte 7 9 1954 3 27 2021 share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x like loading posted in general ramblings tagged death grief humor life 41 comments older posts welcome thanks for stopping by pull up a tuffet and stay a while subscribe to this blog enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email then your life will have meaning email address sign me up join 18 1k other 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