Why this widget makes me happy

So, it seems like a small meaningless thing. In so many ways it is unremarkable, a small piece in a big puzzle - one that you wouldn't think much of, or could mean much to someone.

The problem is the puzzle is my washing machine - and we have been waiting for that part for a month! That innocuous little grey piece of plastic has been keeping peace out of the question for 4 weeks at chez millar. So now I find myself so pleased it has arrived I can hardly be bothered to mention the half-arsed customer service team at MayTag who managed to keep us on tenterhooks for so many bad reasons.

I also still have the small matter of reconstructing the puzzle (at least a dozen pieces form the door of the washing machine alone) which will also give me some pleasure in being able to assist in the remedy.

I feel a bit like someone with Stockholm syndrome - I have been subjected to pain and misery, yet I am loyal to the architect of that misery simply because (in this case) the ordeal of having no machine has gone so far to prove how great it is when it is working!

Had someone come to fix the machine, charged be 200 quid for the privelige would I have appreciated my maytag so much? Who knows - I'm off to wash some socks!

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