Why you should not buy all your appliances at once

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by Trilby

either that or the install guy will scratch his head and say, "I've never seen anything like THAT before....I'll have to call in another guy."

when your plumbing was put in in 1957 it tends to confuse the regular plumbers and they have to call in the Olde Guye Who Knoweth These Things. And he's usually a grumpy old cuss who gets pissed off that he's been called in.

Exactly. Sigh...

1) Oil change...your something pan is tricky, it's going to take a lot longer, if we can do it at all.
2) New tires...we don't have a 'key' for these tires and there isn't one in your car anywhere
3) We can't turn your gas back on until you have a plumber (a plumber?) fix the doohickey and the whatchamacallit and test it to 5 tons of pressure.
4) That new phone you just got? The sim card is bad. Please to give us 5 bucks. Then don't expect the interwebz to work even though your Droid 2 and it's predecessor never, NEVER, had any connection issues
5) Those caps you spent a couple grand on will break within a week and we'll rip them out of your mouth and put in new ones.
6) You can't buy a replacement lint screen grate cover uppy thingy unless you know your stackable washer/dryer model number. That's on the back. Oh, the previous owners built walls around it? Guess you'll need help with that.

There's more but I can't think of them right now.

Sorry foot for the hijack.