What a pair of numpties (fridge related).

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The light went out in our fairly new Bosch fridge freezer yesterday. DH and I spent about an hour investigating. DH popped to Argos to get a replacement bulb, then when it still didn't work did a lot of googling to try to diagnose the problem. Called Bosch. Took all the details, said someone would call back after 8 today.

Turns out one of the kids pushed something too far back in the adjacent cupboard and turned the socket off.

So now when someone calls back we'll either have to admit our mistake, or tell them it's miraculously fixed itself.

This reminds me of the time when I was younger and lived at home
My parents bought a new TV and the screen was all blurry
They contacted the store and arranged for an engineer to come out and take a look
When he came he checked it over and then asked my Mum if she had a damp cloth. He then wiped the screen with the cloth and dried it off
Lo and behold, the ‘fault’ was fixed

I've done this with the dishwasher!
Engineer was very nice about it.

Yep we were always doing this as the socket is where the toaster is. I taped it up so it can't be accidentally switched off

A friend of mine took her car to the garage complaining of a clunking noise every time she turned a corner. After some investigating they phoned her to say the problem was caused by the large tin of dog food rolling around in the boot

The light went out of my fridge the other day and I was convinced the fridge was broken because it was dark inside. Luckily my DP found that the bulb was loose and there was nothing wrong with it.

You can get electric sockets that don't have a switch so unless the plug is taken out it can't be turned off accidentally.

Once I defrosted the top bit of a under counter fridge and it cracked. Rang the relevant man who came and fixed it. He noticed the fridge light was out and cheerily asked did I want him to fit a new bulb.
Smashing, what a nice chap I thought!
Until I received an invoice for £8!!
I rang the company and asked for an address so I could send it back!!
As a gesture of good will they waivered the charge!
£8 fecking quid for a bulb!!

You can get electric sockets that don't have a switch so unless the plug is taken out it can't be turned off accidentally.

That would work! Or a switch like we have for the hob which is much larger and stronger. The fridge is just a standard switch.

Love the tin of dog food in the boot story!

My washer was absolutely dead as a dodo last new years eve. Phoned washer insurance people who had me test the kettle in same socket. Still dead and now diagnosed as a dead plug. Phoned electrician who came out, asked me to turn socket off at switch (it's other side of the room) where I discovered bloody dh had turned it off as well as the extractor fan the night before.

Was an absolute waste of a morning when I was already super busy as had visitors for nye and a house full nyd.

This happened with my hoover. I called them out as it had stopped working and it was because a massive lump of Lego, hair, a sock and sone ripped up paper were in the tube. I was embarrassed - followed by frustration as I had to pay £60 call out charge!

Once called out the repair man for our washing machine, which wouldn't spin. He arrives and takes the soaking and too heavy bath mat out of the drum. Lo, it spins. I ask him how much I owe him. "Nothing," he says. "We just have a good laugh about it back at the office."

DH bought a dyson cordless about a year ago and I openly hate it with a unhealthypassion So when it stopped working I was smuggle over joyed. Turns out I’d also hoovered your some Lego and it was stuck in the pipe!

We have had the clogged Dyson thing with Lego. A child's fishing net with a bamboo pole works a treat.

Glad we're not the only appliance numpties!

When I was 18 I went to take my purse out of my bag to pay for something only to find it missing. I'd paid for something earlier and assumed I'd been pickpocketed. I went to the police station to report the crime and cancelled all my bank details, lamenting my trauma to friends and family.

I later found my purse in another zipped section of my bag. I told no one

My mornings are busy. I get up early to ride my horse before work, race home, get ready for work in 10-15 mins and out the door.

Well one morning I pull up at home, jump out of the car. Well more like try to get out. Kept trying to stand up and failing. So I shut the car door, took a breather and tried again, breaking it down step by step. Turns out I still had my seat belt on! That'll do it LOL

I have done a similar thing with the fridge. Didn't get as far as calling anyone though.
Ds2 was almost late for school recently. He was upstairs and could not find his glasses anywhere. I'm utterly fed up of dealing with his scattershot ways with stuff so I refused to help, for the first time.
He really did look everywhere. Finally my older child felt pity for him, bounded upstairs and found ds2's glasses - on his head! He'd popped them up on the top of his head and forgotten.
I also almost caused DH an expensive mechanic visit. He came in muttering that the fuel gauge on his car was broken. Mumble, mumble. Then something about it reading full when he knew it wasn't.
I replied that I'd used his car at the weekend, seen it was almost out of fuel and filled it up. I'd even remembered to reset the trip meter!
I can just imagine the conversation at the local garage we use. Lucky for DH I was paying attention to his unhappy mumbling, I usually tune it out.

DP bought a new car. When I came to drive it, it wouldn’t start. He gave me his keys thinking mine was faulty. Still wouldn’t start. He got in and of course it started first time. He turned the engine off, I got in and it still wouldn’t start. Turns out you have to have the clutch down to start it. I still haven’t lived it down. A few weeks later his son borrowed it and he couldn’t start it either. I didn’t feel so daft then.

We went on holiday to a place we had stayed 7 or 8 times before. Dh called the maintenance out the first night because he couldn't get the oven working.
Maintenance chap comes in, walks over and flicks the switch on the wall. Dh hadn't, despite having done it every year previously, switched the oven on.

The reverse of this would be the time our kitchen tap was broken. Dh said he could possibly undo something so that he could fix/replace it, but he couldn't work out how to do it without breaking the whole thing, so could I sort a plumber. So I find one, wait, and this plumber walks in, immediately does the thing DH didn't want to do and snaps the tap in half. Oh, he says. Twat

I worked in white goods repair for many years so all of you who think you are the only ones who
Forget to switch the socket on
Forget to turn the machine on
Accidentally put the child lock on
Put washing up liquid in the dishwasher
Put liquid soap in the dishwasher salt container
Forget to shut the washing machine door
Don’t put a time in the clock on your oven
Put your oven on automatic
Block up your vacuum
Use it without a bag in because you thought it was bagless
Vacuum up water
You are definitely not 😁

Years ago a girl i was seeing borrowed my car to go shopping. She calls me, car won't start, dashboard lights up but engine won't turn over. It was a crappy car that constantly broke down so told her to call RAC.

RAC guy arrives eventually. Notices car is in drive, moves it to park and miraculously the car starts straight away