Damn!
/me hands Sherry an umbrella!
-L.

sriddles@aol.com wrote in news:1146719400.881995.27420
@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com:

<snip terrible tale of woe>

Hmmm.  You have clearly pissed off the gods.  If I were you, I'd go ask
them what it was you did and how you can make up for it.  Then scritch
their furry little chins and do it.

Chak

What a bummer!  I hope things start improving soon.

I don't know what "throwing a rod" is either, but I know it's bad.  It
happened to me once when I was driving on the freeway.  First there was a
horrible banging sound under the hood, and then the engine just quit.
Luckily, I was near an offramp that sloped down just enough that I could
coast clear off the freeway and onto the side of the road.  Then I noticed
smoke coming from under the hood.  I got out of the car and walked several
yards away.  A minute later a truck driver stopped and opened the hood.
Flames immediately shot up.  He ran to his truck and got a shovel.  Another
truck stopped, and that driver ran across the street with a couple of
gallons of water, just as the first truck driver started shoveling dirt onto
my engine.  They got the fire out, after which one of the truck drivers
asked for my key.  I gave it to him, and he went to the car and actually
tried to start it.  After a couple of minutes he came back with the key and
said, "It won't start."  I knew even less about cars then than I do now, but
I could have told him it wouldn't start.  ;-)

Joy

Holy cow! That's a lot of broken things. On the bright side, you're
getting lots of new stuff! ;-)
Purrs for your finances!

sriddles@aol.com wrote in news:1146719400.881995.27420
@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com:

Sorry to hear about that.  One year, we had so many things break that I
started counting them.  It started with our foundation cracking, and by
the time the year was over, 17 things had broken.  T'was a very bad
year, but now just about everything is new!

Purrs that nothing else goes wrong!

The connecting rod, which connects the piston to the crankshaft, has
broken. A common follow up to a thrown rod would be a hole in the engine
block that did not previously exist.  In NASCAR-speak we would say "it
blowed up" :(

Wow. Major appliance purrs coming. I don't now if I've ever heard of such a
run!!!

We just went through that this past year. Everything in the house is around
20-21 years old and I think that's the time when they all start dying. And
the 2 cars also went. I know what you're going through. My sympathies.
Lily & her mama

On Wed, 03 May 2006 22:10:01 -0700, sriddles wrote:

That is the problem -- when you originally buy things around the same
time, they decide to turn up their little feet around the same time
Deepest sympathy....been there.   MLB

Aww, Sherry, the same thing happens to me.  I think all my appliances
have a suicide pact-- they all go together. ;)

Theresa
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My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com

Make Levees, Not War

Oh, my goodness! The gods of machinery are mad at you over something!!
Do you think your furry owners might put in a good word for you, before
you go broke?

I'm sorry!!

Joyce

I knew you all had been having trouble w/that truck but it has given up
the ghost unless you have family/pals who can efficiently replace the
entire engine and trannie in it.
Havng never had a lawn mower of any sort, I sympathize but fail to
relate to its loss. Men love to pick those things out personally; it
seems to be mostly a "male" thing.
BUT....I'm really impressed by "26-year-old-fridge"!!! Never heard
of one that lasted that long....I thought I had a good time record
for longevity when mine gasped its last after 13 years. Now you,
Sherry, should select, when the time comes, *your* personal
fave features to replace the beast (faithful servant beast it was
for such a long time).....when you shop, you will be blown away
by the nifty things they've put in high-end fridges lately, and I'm
not talking SubZero or most expensive models. I bought a state-of-
the-art Maytag in '01 (black) - now the in thing is stainless and
"brushed effect" metallic outer finishes - but I think fridge shopping
is lots more fun than mower shopping, stove-element (yawn) shopping,
and *almost*, truck shopping. Condolences on P.O.ing the
Appliance Dieties, who have landed on you w/all four feet.....

Purrs for your luck to improve ASAP.  Did you break a mirror or something?

I not only sympathize; I empathize.

Some say that a couple has its worst run of bad luck after the wedding,
and it could not have been truer for me and Louie. In the space of less
than two months, he ran over a pothole that could have floated an aicraft
carrier, and blew the whole wheel of his car into the next county--not the
tire, the wheel. A couple of weeks later, the electric thing that triggers
the furnace to kick in when the temperature gets to a certain low point
blew, and on a night that was easily 10 degrees Fahrenheit below zero,
with windchiils of minus 25 or worse. And, less than a month after, our
water heater blew a gasket, spewing hot water everywhere and requiring yet
another purchase of several hundred dollars. Eventually we did get some
good karma back. I can now fit into the nice new car, far better than I
did with the roller skate with a roof we used to drive.

We still have not had our wedding pictures done after climbing out of the
hole. So boy, do I understand!!!

Blessed be,
Baha

Damn it Sherry.  After reading this last night, the alternator on Emily,
our 89 Ford Tempo died on the road today.  Couldn't you tell the
appliance gods that it was you that caused the problem and not spread
the grief?

Pam S. who stood around for hours while a pack of men fixed the car

I'm so very sorry to hear about the bad luck you are having.
Lots of purrs and best wishes for things to go really well for you from
now on,
Polonca and Soncek

Wow.  That sucks.  I hate it when it turns out I have to unexpectedly
spend money on something -- and here you are with four major
purchases.  Well, three if the oven is a small thing.

Purrs that everything else keeps working properly.