high-tech inventions

Rita thought I should blog about this and I told her it was too humiliating, but here I am blogging about it anyway. We had some people over for lunch on Sunday, so we had a loaded dishwasher by Sunday afternoon. I try to start it and it doesn't work. On Monday, I try again and still no luck so I finally call Sears that afternoon and schedule them to come repair my dishwasher this morning. In the meantime, I'm washing everything on the counter by hand. Last night, RB comes home and starts messing with it just to see if he might be able to repair it. I look down and my dishwasher is running. Everything seems just fine. It then occurs to me that I didn't remember ever pushing "start" (I've only had this dishwasher for 3 years - it's not like I'm not quite familiar with it). Thank goodness I discovered that little oversight before I paid the Sears repairman $60 to tell me to push the "start" button....

Somebody PLEASE tell me that I'll have a few brain cells left by the time I'm done raising 5 children - and bite your tongue if you're thinking of making any blonde jokes!

Anda