Why it takes so long

You may know that I have a theory that gravity is time, and all this without Einstien. I can tell because in time all of me has fallen, even parts I didn't know could fall.

Machines are made of parts and these parts fail with depressing regularity. I know that the failure is planned by the makers to insure economic activity (planned obselesence). Still, I think of it as a hostile act on the part of the machine. No doubt this is because my father wrestled all machinery into submission with a few cheap parts, an engineering degree and a determination not to be bested by a errant wire, bolt or anything else that dared give up the ghost. He once dissassembled an entire car engine and put the pieces carefully on a tarp outside in his irritation at a straying something that made the engine disfunctional. This put a bit of a crimp on my dating life, such as it was, because all the guys took one look at the array in the yard and my dad's face and decided to date the daughter of a real estate agent.

Daddy has gone to the great rest which I hope is full of things that work-though I wouldn't be on it- so now we must handle mechanical failure on our own. 

So  the dryer stopped tumbling. John left instructions for me to get it fixed and I need to explain the process to somebody because he won't really care. First I must call repair places. Some don't exist anymore no matter what their ad says. Others no longer repair, but they WILL sell. Those in Cincinnati always seem to charge for the time it takes the repairman to turn the key of his truck till his last breath which I desperately hope will be after the repair. Then should the dryer need to be deep sixed they charge for delivery of the new and removal of the dead dryer. They charge to hook it up to the gas line. They charge for the kit they leave for us to hook it up to the gas line. (I really don't understand that)

When I finally figure out the location of a repair person, I have to call around. If the service is in Kenton Co.
I have to find a reference from that county. If the service is in Campbell Co. I have to find someone there.
After all this, I have to call off eveyone who I've scheduled who isn't the Chosen One.