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How to be kind to your washing machine. A morality tale

Do you take your washing machine for granted? Pause for answer.
If your answer is yes, this is a message which will save you a great deal of anguish being stored up for you …
If your answer is no, why not send this public service announcement to someone you think would have answered ‘yes’ or ‘I don’t see the point of that question’.

First, a true story of someone who mentioned a problem with his  hi tech machine. He has noticed a leakage onto the floor after every use recently. 

It doesn’t  seem to need any special attention, he said. I use it every week on the same way it was set by the installers. Why change it?
Even for different kinds of load?
No, it works the same whatever I put in. Until recently. When I noticed a puddle of water on the floor after a wash. Been happening ever since.
Anyway,  I found the manual, still in its wrapper, but it’s 96 pages long.. So I did the sensible thing.
You read the manual?
No. I asked some friends. Why read the manual when you got friends who do?
That’s one way, I said. Why bother to read a manual until something goes wrong?
And there my story might have ended happily…

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