Tuesday, December 16, 2008

The Rest Of The Story


Life is funny and sometimes the coincidences just make you laugh.

The man who did indeed show up to look at the oven was no Swearengen and no Mr. Wu but if he lost about one hundred pounds he could be a Dan Dority. Long hair and all. Mustache, too.

Ha!

He was a pleasant fellow and showed me where the mice behind my stove have been stealing things and trying to get them back out to where they lived. Two wooden spoons, one soup spoon, a quarter and a wine cork. The wooden spoons were both chewed almost in half and one of them was jammed up into the wall where the mice have been getting in. What in the world would mice want with a wooden spoon?

Anyway, the mice had nothing to do with the malfunction of the oven. No, that's a part that's going to cost $189.00 with labor and at what point do you say, "Oven, your time is over"?

I don't know.

I don't even know how old it is because it was here when we got here almost five years ago.
Dan told me he didn't know the answer although his mama does sell real nice stoves up in Quitman.

Huh.

Well, Mr. Moon and I will discuss this issue tonight.

I gotta have an oven. It's as important to me as Dan Dority was to Al Swearengen.

And thankfully, an oven is far more easily fixed or replaced than the magnificent Dan Dority ever was.

I miss Deadwood. Obviously.

11 comments:

  1. That was the best show ever on TV. Im with ya. Get yourself a nice, fancy, new stove from the scratch-n-dent. Shiny stainless with flat top burners! hee hee!

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  2. After recently having a appliance fiasco with my dryer, and a bit over a year ago with my stove, I am all for buying new. I need my appliances to work, and if I'm going to spend a ton of money I don't want to have to worry about them for a good long while.

    But that's just one opinion.

    :)

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  3. Holy hot damn Ms. Moon, $189??? I bought a brand new stove for like $250!
    For that price, that repair shop guy should not only cook the food for you but do the dishes afterward!

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  4. Yep, BlackEyedP- it was an amazing show. I could go on for hours about how much I loved the individual characters. Most of them, anyway.
    We don't have a scratch and dent store! I wish we did. I have, however, found floor models with dings and gotten a better price. What do I care if a stove has a dent in it?

    RiotGrrl- I think you may be right.

    Rachel- is it a good stove and what kind is it? But wait! You don't cook, do you? Have you even turned that sucker on?

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  5. Oh I love Deadwood, too. Jake and I still say quotes from the show to each other ( one cocksucker, two cocksucker)...and try to catch iton HBO or ondemand. We have the first season taped but the vcr broke. We used to do a cuss count...see how many in a minute. I #%$^*!@ miss it. I loved Al's singing in the Gem all alone one night when the whole town was out watching a show in the street and those hot scenes with Alma and the Marshall...hm hm hm. I have Dan as a friend on my myspace page, Al, too. Our new basic stove cost us $500 at sears and it was a basic stove.

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  6. I've never seen Deadwood, but I do know about stoves and it's worth getting a new one if you're going to stick with gas.
    The newest ones are far more efficient and don't have pilot lights-very well designed. But they will be more than $250; ask Mr. Moon just how important those biscuits are, and then ask for his wallet.

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  7. Magnum- you're right but hell, it's eight days before Christmas. Do I have time to go shop for stoves?
    This is annoying. Not life-threatening. But still, annoying.
    Anyway, let me give you some advice- go rent all the Deadwoods. You and Baby Mama sit on the couch and start watching. Just an amazing show.

    Ms. Sally- so are you happy with that stove? I don't need fancy stuff. Just reliable and hopefully with a burner that can simmer on really low.
    The boxed sets of Deadwood are a great Christmas present. Just sayin'....

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  8. I recently watched all three seasons pretty much in a row and it changed my cocksucking life.

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  9. boxed sets...hmmm good idea. Yes, I like my stove, I am simple basic person...wish it was stainless, tho, to match the fridge but then it would mean getting a new beer box which matches the stove...and then..oh nevermind. It doesn't simmer real low... I made a pot roast and doubled up the burners parts for a lower heat. It worked.

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  10. I paid almost that much for a new flat iron - and no, that's not for ironing sheets or making flat bread, it's for straightening my hair.
    On the other hand, I could live without my oven for months, thanks to a microwave and a toaster oven.

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  11. DTG- Cocksucka!
    (Sorry. I love you.)

    Ms. Sally- gotta have the low simmer. That's like all I really care about.

    Magnum- Mr. Moon is aware that you cannot put a price on biscuits. He's a smart guy.

    MOB- well, my hair is already straight. Sort of. But I need a stove. We all have our priorities.

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