UPDATE: After randomly mashing the keypad with an admirable degree of persistence, Matt finally got the washer to start up and clean a load of laundry. When he went to get his clothes out of the machine, though, the door wouldn't budge. It's locked shut. Immobile.
The machine is completely unopenable, and is holding his clothes hostage against their will. Clearly, there's some sort of magic combination to open the darn thing (remember the "Safecracker" game on the old Price is Right show?), but we're completely stumped. Can't even find any answers on the Internet, since the machine was apparently manufactured on Mars.
I feel a little badly for Matt and his trapped clothes, but mostly it's just deeply, deeply funny watching him attempt to coax and jimmy that door open. He even tried unplugging the darn thing. No dice.
What does it say about the fine folks at Baumatic appliances if a mechanical engineer can't operate their washing wachine?
(Oooh. I hope Wired magazine doesn't find out about this!)
Any luck on the washer?? It must be really frustrating!!
ReplyDeleteCome on, Matt! You can do it!
ReplyDeleteOh no! I suppose they'll need another wash by the time you rescue them.
ReplyDeleteWell the funny part was that it is a washer and dryer in one package and in my attempt to extract my newly dried clothes I accidently restarted the wash cycle, dumping water on my dry clothes. So I had to rerun them again to get them to dry. I finally got it open this morning and they were soaking wet. I am going to take one more shot and then just hang them on the towel rack.
ReplyDeleteNeed update on the laundry????
ReplyDeleteWe called the apartment manager to come in and show us how to open up the washer. He sent up someone from housekeeping who walked right up and popped the door open by doing the exact same thing we had already tried to do 1,000 times before. She made it look so easy that we started to think that maybe we were just doing it wrong all along.
ReplyDeleteIn a fit of misplaced confidence, we decided to run a load of towels. Matt got them through the wash and dry cycles with no problems.
But guess what?
They're all trapped in the dryer again. The door, once again, refuses to budge.
What are we doing wrong???
(Side note: ALL our towels are in there. Until we pry them free, none of us can take showers.)