Gotta Have A Zapper!

Sprite‘s Keeper Spin Cycle assignment is”…And I can’t live without it!”. The first thing that came to mind was electricity, but I didn’t think that really qualified. However, electricity is needed for almost everything I claim to be unable to live without. I could so not have been a pioneer woman. Also, I’m not a happy camper. I take that back…I am a happy camper when it involves a camper and electricity instead of a tent and totally roughing it.

About two weeks ago, I came to realize how much I depended on my microwave. A little over a year ago, my microwave of twenty-three years gave out. Dirt Man was actually able to fix it, but we decided to update our model. We wound up buying one of these three- in- one newfangled contraptions. It was a microwave/grill/convection oven. We tried all three types of cooking, and proceeded to use it as only a microwave. Had we had hindsight, we could have saved about two hundred bucks.

Anyway, a few weeks ago this very nice microwave started arcing and sparking while we were cooking. It was barely a year old. I went without a microwave for a mere twenty-four hours, and our entire family nearly went spastic! Have you ever counted how many times you use your microwave in one day?! I must use it like a gazillion times….I was totally inconvenienced! Not that I actually cook in it except for frozen vegetables packs, but I reheat my coffee cup and leftovers and not to mention popping popcorn!

I sent Dirt Man out for another microwave. I told him to just grab a cheap basic microwave. I had no requirements. He did his job, and I was shortly back in business.

Meanwhile, Dirt Man became quite agitated that something he paid that much for lasted just slightly over a year. So you guessed it. He went on GE’s web site and posted a terrible review of the product and suggested that the product be recalled due to a possible fire hazard. In less than twenty-four hours, we had a representative call to speak with him. They offered him a $50 gift certificate for his inconvenience if he could mail them a receipt that he actually purchased another microwave.

Dirt Man emailed them his receipt and in today’s mail was a good will certificate ($50) to be returned for a good will rebate. Of course, at the bottom of the paper it states that the certificate is not an admission of liability. Truth is that I really liked that microwave…that is until it almost caught on fire!

And as much as I depend on my microwave, all I can say is that it’s a darn good thing it wasn’t my laptop because I really don’t know if I could live without that!