Riley, Zuzu and I live in a simple little house full of simple little things. Bright colors and happy corners. Photographs of places we have been and paintings of places we would like to go. Books with broken bindings and mismatched plates. The trees outside our windows look lovely against a thunderstorm sky. Lovely. We are blessed with a little more than enough and we are happy.
Sometimes, just sometimes, those blessed with a little more than enough (ahem, us) find themselves wishing to be blessed with just a little more than a little more than enough. Case in point. Our garbage disposal broke last month. The dear thing just cracked nearly in half. It leaked generously when we used the disposal, started the dishwasher or turned on the water. It also seemed to leak anytime anyone walked through the house, spoke or took a breath. Inconvenient. We spent a couple of weeks saving for the replacement. I switched out bowls from under the offending appliance while Riley performed the most extensive garbage disposal consumer research ever undertaken by a single man. Seriously. It was exhausting.
And then it happened. The husbands' research and an ad on KSL joined together in one serendipitous moment. And what a moment it was. Yes. It was true. The king of all garbage disposals, The WasteKing 12000 was being offered NEW at the obscenely low price of $50. The WasteKing is not just some plastic toy pretending at manliness. A little thing just for chopping up the discards from your sissy lunch. No. The WasteKing is the Hercules of sink related accoutrement. It is a sound insulated beast equipped with more horsepower than your car. A silver coated knight just waiting to do battle against anything you put in its path. The WasteKing is much, much, more than enough. And after a drive to Salt Lake, it was ours.
Riley spent four hours trying to tame the King. We called in reinforcements. Our dear friends, Brooke and Jesse, came over. Brooke and I entertained the kids, while the men went to battle. Three hours and a taco dinner later, the truth could no longer be avoided. The WasteKing 12000 was a pretender. A defective, silver plated loser that couldn't lift a lance if you paid it to.
The next day, Riley went to Home Depot and bought the cheapest garbage disposal in the warehouse. The Badger 5. It can chop lettuce and only shudders briefly when faced with day old bread.
Just a little more than enough.
We are still happy.
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Too funny Megan... Much love, Grammy xo
ReplyDeleteWow, we had pretty much the same thing happen to us. Came down the stair to find water all over our kitchen floor due to a big hole in our disposal. How does that even happen?
ReplyDeleteThis post made me crack up! Did you know the next day Riley called Jesse and said "after you left Megan and I installed the king..." Jesse was briefly impressed by your skills.
ReplyDeleteLove it! Though I DON'T love the downsides of homeownership - garbage disposals being one of them. Go Badger!
ReplyDeletewe don't even have a garbage disposal. my sister-in-law, who has lived most of her adult life in southern california, didn't understand how we just DIDN'T have a garbage disposal, didn't all sinks just come with one? it took a lot of explaining and convincing, but she has finally accepted that some people have to actually scoop crap out of their sinks.
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