Next up on the big disaster wheel, the washing machine failed.
We called a repairman, who pulled out the filter, in which there was six socks, steel underwires from two different bras, four bobby pins, some small pieces of cheap jewelry, a nail, a lot of unidentifiable schmutz, an unopened package of string cheese, and 46 cents.
Now that all of that has been removed, the washer works much, much better!
I wonder what will fail next.