Soap Bubbles In Our Drinking Glasses

Water Conservation can defeat its own purpose

We had moved to a new home in 2005 which came with truly awful GE appliances, surely picked out by the builder as being the absolute cheapest he could find. We would have selected something better, but this house was contracted by someone else and then their mortgage had fallen through. The location was what we wanted. The appliances were junk and a small list of other things was not ideal, but there are three things that are really important in real estate. You know them already: location, location, and location.

So we bought the house, lousy appliances included.

The dishwasher cleaned the dishes well enough, but it was noisy. Very noisy. The furnace was noisy, too, but we could shut the doors on that. The only way we could avoid the dishwasher was to only run it just before bed. Even then, at the other end of the house and behind a closed door, we could hear it.

We put up with that for five years. We then picked out a Bosch, not the most expensive model, but not the cheapest. We offered the GE to a cash strapped nephew whose wife was washing dishes for their four person family by hand. He came to get it with an ear to ear grin. “It’s noisy”, I warned.

“Who the eff cares!” he exclaimed. He helped me install the Bosch, I helped him load the GE in his truck. “Happy wife, happy life!” were his final words as he drove off.