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My electric kettle because I thought I put water in it, then turned it on, but I had not put water in it.
My collapsible canoe paddle snapped while in use. Doubt that it’s fixable, since most of it floated away in the wind while I hand-paddled to shore.
My band saw. I didn’t do anything wrong (I swear!). I hadn’t used in it many years, and when I turned it on it made a horrible broken/about-to-explode noise. I checked inside, after turning it off, of course, and the rubber “tires” that go around the pulleys were dry, hard, brittle and cracked. The blade had come off the pulleys, that was the scary noise. You don’t want power tools making noises like that, trust me.
I didn’t do anything wrong (I swear!)
Uhhh turning a bandsaw on without checking it after years of it sitting idle is, in fact, doing something wrong
My car transmission. 😔
My spine! It shouldn’t have happened, especially because I’m not 40 yet and I was just moving some furniture
Waiting on an MRI so the doctor can decide the best path forward, but I’m sure it’s fixable
Oxo good grips dish scrubbing wand. Ive had it for year and countless head replacements, it had electrical tape around the handle where the soap button broke 2 years ago. It had a good run.
My bicycle front tire tube popped yesterday, replaced it today
I dropped and shattered one of my ‘free’ Mason jars that came with Classico pasta sauce. It’s not fixable because, despite my complaints, Classico switched to lug-style jars and doesn’t sell their sauce in the nice reusable ones anymore. I’d have to actually pay for real (empty) Mason jars if I wanted to replace it. : (
Luckily, I still have plenty of extras, but still…
pedantic caveats
Yes, I know the jars aren’t really ‘free’ if I’m paying for the sauce.
Yes, I know I ought to just make my own sauce instead of using store-bought.
Yes, I know Classico jars are technically not as thick/strong as real canning jars from Ball etc. and shouldn’t actually be used for canning.
Yes, I know lug-style jars could be reused too; it’s just that they aren’t compatible with the universe of Mason-style canning jar attachments.
A ‘free’ mason jar, or a ‘free mason’ jar? This is very important.
The former, LOL!
The Classico mason jars are branded “Atlas,” but it is surprisingly difficult to figure out who actually makes them. (It isn’t the same Atlas company that made real canning jars; that’s been put of business for decades.)
Classic itself is owned by Kraft Heinz, which AFAIK isn’t associated with Freemasonry, but it is a multinational food conglomerate and that’s worse.
The heart of a young boy when I had to tell him that aunt bel was out of spicy water (what he calls flavored, carbonated water).
My laptop’s screen died, and in taking it apart to see if it was reparable/replaceable, I tore off the antenna socket from the WiFi card. The WiFi card can be easily replaced, but there is still a bit of it stuck in the end of the antenna cable that hasn’t come out yet… I’m not sure what the solution is yet (I might try soldering the cable to the card directly, if I decide the cable is a lost cause anyway).
Also my phone had it’s last breath last week, so now I’m using a 20 yr old laptop, and a 10 yr old phone.
My WiFi AP broke when my friend she plugged the wrong power cable in and cooked it.
My edge router seems to have a corrupted filesystem. I think its fixable if I flash the os. If its not then I might need to replace the storage again which would be annoying.
A fridge magnet when punched the fridge out of anger
Luckily, it was a quick fix with hot glue
Me and maybe
My drain was cleaning slowly, so I pulled out my sink stopper to fix it. Youtube said this would take 90 seconds. Which it should, if you are able to hook a pivot rod into the hole in the stopper without looking at it the first time. I wasn’t able to do it at all. I asked boyfriend, and he got it close but I don’t think it is quite right. When we put the nut back on, the sink was leaking. I told landlord. Landlord said he sent someone out. I trusted him. I finally noticed the leaking is still a problem when my tampon box was soaking wet. I pulled everything out, and there is mold under on the cabinet. I used some mold spray. The mold does not come off, but the vinyl coating on the plywood does. I don’t want to take the sink apart again and potentially make it worse.
So. Ruined cabinet, leaking sink, because I wanted my bathroom faucet to drain. Yay.
It can be easy to misalign the trap so it drips. Maybe this was long term, but if the upstream side were the misaligned piece it could have been a problem all along but not drip until the slow drain backed up far enough
That sounds exactly like every single one of my adventures in plumbing.
You gotta replace the tampons regularly, they are only meant for occasional leakage. leaving them too long results in a variety of unpleasant issues.
It’s not possible to break the sink and make it leak by pulling out the stopper. The only thing you could break is the stopper itself. How long ago did it start? Mold takes time to develop. Most likely the sink was improperly installed and slowly leaking this whole time, developing mold underneath. Your stopper shenanigans probably just opened up some sediment keeping it all vaguely together. Make your landlord fix the whole thing, sink, cabinet, and especially mold. It’s a serious health hazard.
Edit: rereading this, do you mean the P trap? Still, they aren’t complicated, if three people couldn’t put it back together it is fucked and probably already was fucked. Landlord problem.
The stopper. It is leaking out of the part where the nut attaches the pivot rod to the pipe. I assume this is because the pivot rod is not properly inserted into the stopper, and as such the nut is not able to screw on properly.
That’s some seriously bad design. Taking out the stopper for cleaning is normal maintenance and shouldn’t require specific skill to put back. Still, you reported it to your landlord, everything that resulted from it further is on the landlord. If you really broke it (doubtful) the landlord should have fixed it and maybe send you a bill (debatable). Leaving it broken is what caused this mess.
My favorite coffee mug. It was a wide mug good for cappuccinos. I got it from a previous job almost 10 years ago.
It might have been fixable, but I now have an excuse to actually buy a mug next time I see a fun one.
