I appreciate modern machines being designed to be idiot proof but when you set the machine and close the door it immediately locks the door shut! This idiot forgot to put the detergent and subsequently had to out smart the machine into letting him open the door.

At first I thought the door on the machine would fail safe – by that I mean in the unlikely event of there being an electrical failure the door would unlock. Of cause that was not the case and after power cycling the machine a few times I decided that I needed to adopt a new tactic.

I turned it off and wiped the program I was on. I then turned it back on and dialled in program 15 – drain. I hoped that the washer would accept that it had played out a program and would then unlock the door. At the end of the program the door was still locked and the detergent was still n the wrong site of the glass.

My last attempted turned out to be successful. Realising that “drain” was not the last action that a washer did I quickly punished in program 16 – spin! And a few minutes later the door unlocked its self allowing me to add the detergent and try again.

Not being an expert in washing, I will in about an hour discover that all my cloths have shrunk and I’ll have nothing to wear tomorrow. That said, I did read the labels and am currently washing at 30 degrees on program 9: delicate! As for all the other symbols on the labels, I have no idea!

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