A Little Off-Balance

Why buy a boring new washing machine when you can buy an exciting one that might explode, God forbid, when you least expect it? This is the reasoning in the SJG household, where we're a little off-balance, anyway. All it takes is a lot of reassurance that "the exploding ones were recalled and no longer for sale" to decide on the highly discounted model that God willing, won't blow up the house. Rather than fix the malfunctioning Maytag with the spin cycle issue, we've ordered a Samsung -- a company known for exploding stuff -- for only a little more than the repair would've cost. I keep telling you we like to live on the edge over here in Sherman Oaks. We never know when the machines we rely on might go Ka-Boom! And we like it that way.