I am happy to report that we are functioning at a high level with regards to our new appliances. Without fail their buttons and guidebooks are all in Italian, which is hardly surprising. And, in fact, we're happy to have found the guidebooks at all because at first we were operating on sheer luck and creativity -- and a bit of google-ing.
Take a glance at the above set of buttons, knobs and dials. The illustrations themselves are quite amusing. Now imagine that your clothes will be clean only after you are able to discern exactly how this machine functions. The perfect challenge, eh?
In 2006 the way you respond to such a challenge is to utilize a little service by the name of google. We google-d appliances and managed to find a users guide that explained a similar machine and thus were able to presume that this alien appliance might function in a similar fashion. And then with detergent we had chosen based on fragrance alone -- because our detergent vocabulary is not very strong -- we were able to wash our clothes. Success!
But the far greater success was the lighting of the pilot light for the gas water heater. No google. No idea. Only a technical guide in technical Italian. Oh, and a machine that uses natural gas and a flame to produce large amounts of boiling water. No pressure there.
But we did it. And have had hot showers ever since.
After less than a week in a new country, we have managed to clean our clothes and light the pilot light -- in Italian! That's got to count for something.
1 comment:
I love my washer and dryer. They are small but work well and handle the clothes really gently.
Post a Comment