If so please give it a a hug, a snack, and clean jammies and return it to me – I need it. Dale has had hiccups off and on (mostly on) since 4:30 this morning and my washing machine drain is being cantankerous. Sometimes it doesn’t want to work and when that happens I remove the drain hose from it’s little compartment in the wall behind it and insert a funnel and pour in some super drain de-clogger. I set a timer and wait fifteen minutes, pour some warm water in to flush it out and voila! Theoretically a nice clean working drain. I went through that process today. While I was waiting for the timer to go off I thought I would have breakfast (at 10:30 in the morning) and two phone calls later I was pouring the water in and thought I’d go ahead a start the laundry and then maybe I could go finish my breakfast. I started the washer and went to add water to a cup of bleach to pour in and when I walked back in there was water on the floor. did you know that when the drain hose isn’t in the drain pipe that water runs out as fast as it runs in? Duh. Luckily I had another load of dirty clothes sitting there waiting so I stopped the washer, mopped up, re-inserted the drain hose and went back to eating breakfast. I finished at about 11:30 – just in time to start fixing lunch. I’ll fix Dale something healthy but I’m thinking Bailey’s soup for me…