First, a big heart-felt thank you to my mom’s friends, who pitched in to help Erica and I enter the exclusive club of washer and dryer ownership.  Now part 1 of a related saga.

Previous 3 weeks: looking forward to Saturday delivery of our new appliances.

Thursday night: call from delivery peeps confirming delivery for “tomorrow”; Erica calling back but getting an odd and non-committal response to change plans; FC calling and getting ahold of someone less surly and more informed.

Saturday morning at 8am: doorbell; FC and delivery guy looking skeptically at rear basement hatch; refusing delivery of dented dryer (with full support of delivery guys, who gave me a hotline to the right person at Lowe’s to get things straightened out with no additional hassle); looking on amazed as the guys got the washer through the hatch, installed, and tested in under 10 minutes.

Sunday morning: heard the truck pull up, two more nice delivery guys with undented dryer.  More skeptical looking at the rear basement hatch, but the dryer went in with millimeters to spare.  Moving straps FTW.  No additional 30-amp outlet OR dryer exhaust port in the basement, so no full install/test yet.

Today: getting in touch with building maintenance dude to see when the power and exhaust situation can get rectified, since our original punchlist had “washer/dryer hookups” plainly specified and agreed-to.

In other “less need for quarters” news, I picked up an EZPass on our way back from Utica last weekend, and am surprised at the qualitative quality-of-life improvement.  I didn’t realize how much energy I was throwing away worrying about keeping cash for pike tolls in the car, and this morning I actually used my cup holder to hold…a cup of iced coffee.

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