I felt like I'd lost the will to live today.
I know 'shopping around' is supposed to be a good thing to get the best deal but honestly, it is such a dismal process that I think I'd rather pay the extra hundred bucks and only go to one place. After 4 or 5 appliance stores I had reached the end of my ability to feign interest. Harry was screaming at the top of his lungs in the car as we left the penultimate store. Stopped, fed him. He finally cheered up. Got to the last store, put him in stroller, pinched his leg in the seatbelt, he screamed again, felt awful, went in , bought something... anything....who cares it just washes fucking dishes right?
Then had to go food shopping as we have dinner guests tonight (we had some great ones last night - hello Hubbles!) . Tired from last night though, so given state of mind post dishwasher shopping hell not sure how much fun this is going to be.
Got home. G checked out the current (v expensive / not working) dishwasher and discovered some plastic garbage shoved in the spinny thing and blocking it so we think that's what the problem has been FOR THE LAST 3 YEARS OF IT NOT WORKING VERY WELL.
Bah.