The Day My Washing-Machine Went Walkabout

Yes, Moving! There were several things I could have done at this point. A good course of action would have been: a) Walk into the kitchen. b) Switch the washing machine off. c) Find the manual from the drawer where I shoved all the manuals, and read the section that describes how to drain the water out of a full machine (as opposed to just opening the door and flooding the flat below). d) Drain the machine. e) Call a repair man. That would be one course of action. However, I chose an alternative. I panicked. By the time I noticed the machine's new found wonderlust, it had moved about six inches out of its enclosure. By the time I dashed the few feet into the kitchen it was about a foot clear. It had travelled about twelve inches in perhaps five or six seconds. I kid you not. All I could think of was that if it carried on the hoses attached to the back would reach their full extent and be ripped out, sending a torrent of biblical proportions into both my kitchen and the kitchen of the poor bastard that lived in the flat below mine. Actually, it was a small enough kitchen that it would probably have reached the cooker (built in) directly opposite before it ran out of hose. That would have been interesting - the irresistable washing machine pushing against the immovable cooker.

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