When they came to install new furnace filters a couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that the knob on the dryer was broken. I said it wasn’t urgent, I’d been using the pliers to turn the knob spindle, but if they could drop off a new knob sometime, that would be great!
Mr Maintenance Guy said he’d bring me a new knob in a day or two.
The next day, the sweet lady who works in the office called to tell me they’d be by to service my dryer in a few days.
Okay, great!
Although I did think at the time that “service” was a bit on the technical side to explain a simple knob replacement.
More than a week went by, and of course, the maintenance crew decides to stop by on the day I’m least prepared. Hangin’ out to do housework in my jammies so I don’t get sweaty in nice clothes.
They took my dryer apart. Entirely.
They took the drum out and vacuumed the heck out of everything. They greased and oiled things and Lord only knows what all they did.
At one point I said, “Wow, I thought I only needed a new knob! Was there something else wrong with it?”
One of the crew said, “Oh no, it’s just part of our yearly dryer inspection.”
That took a minute to process.
“Oh. Is that a new thing?” I asked.
“Nah, we just don’t do it every year.”
I had to leave the room, and hold my guffaws in until they left.
Not only do they not do the “yearly inspection” every year, this is the first time they’ve done it since I moved in 5 years ago!
Maybe it just depends on what your definition of “yearly” is. LOL
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The summer solstice is at 10:15 AM PDT today! Summer officially begins! Let the A/C run non-stop! LOL Have an awesome, summery day. 
The "Ness" in DarcNess ;) 
Maybe they pick one dryer each year and this was your year? 🙂 Happy summer!!
Ha! Great call! That must be what it was. 🙂 Happy summer to you too hon!
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Perhaps they use the Mayan calendar . . .
Btw, if summer officially started today, what the heck was yesterday’s 102 all about?
Mayan … ROFL! Oh that’s rich! Too funny! 😀
That 102? That must have been the warm up. *rimshot* 😉
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If that was an annual inspection and the last one was 5 years ago, by my math we’re all 5 years younger than we thought we were!
Ooooh, -5, I like the sound of that! I’m game! 😀
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That’s silly, lol but at least there are maintenance people to look at those issues. I’ve never lived anywhere with actual maintenance men. Just landlords who think they are the Jack-of-All, or friends of the same nature. We lived one place, the landlord was such a cheap-skate. The lock had issues when we moved in from day one, which we told him about immediately. He promptly sent his buddy up to fix it. He informed us that he didn’t really know what he was doing, but knew enough about many things that our landlord trusted him with such issues. So he fiddled, and lo-and-behold, it worked. We were happy. It started messing up a day or two later, again, so we phoned, and he said he would send someone up to fix it. He didn’t, and we ended up getting locked out. We called the landlord and the lady who answered (one of his staff, he ran a bar, too) said he wouldn’t be home until after supper, but would try to get a hold of him. I was on my lunch hour from work, and Matt was done for the day, so he didn’t want to hang out with me at work until our landlord was home to find out “what they should do about it”. The lady called back and said she tried him many times, and finally gave up and phoned a locksmith. The locksmith shows up immediately, which was fantastic, and he was chatting away to us, and we told him about the pain in the butt the lock had been from day one, then he asked “well this building belongs to Neil, doesn’t it? He’s a pretty cheap guy” He informed us the old lock was completely shot and no amount of “fixing it” would have done, so he said we looked like we needed the fancy $60 lock on our door in spite of our landlord being such a moron. So instead of just picking up a $20 lock at the hardware store and replacing it, he paid his buddy to look at it, and then paid $60 for a new, nicer, lock, plus the guys hourly rate (for 15 minutes of labour), and an extra fee because he had to come out right away.
Oh my gosh! See?! Proof that being a skin-flint only ends up costing more in the long run! I fully admit to being a miser, but I like to think that I’d have sense enough to have a lock fixed and not rigged. That can just invite disaster! I’m glad that guy’s not your landlord anymore.
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My dryer knob just broke. I find it very annoying.
I kept my pliers next to the dryer until they fixed it. It was a pain but for some reason, I kind of liked the pliers. There’s a point around the dial where the knob sticks, and the pliers made short work of that. Still, it was a bit of a pain, and rut-roh if I needed the pliers for anything else! LOL
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