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Our dishwasher appears to have been made in 1975. Magic Chef. We’ve lived in this house 6 years, and every once in a while the dishwasher starts to act like maybe it’s finally on its last legs, but just about the time the research on a new one causes me to throw my hands up in despair, it suddenly heals itself and we all carry on again. What happened to America?

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Heath, I have the utmost respect for you as a writer and a human being. I'm also not easily offended. But this line actually made me angry: "I’m wondering if I should have just waited the three months for the Bosch, although it would mean hand washing every dish for a quarter of 2023. As much as I may aspire to it at times, I’m definitively not Amish."

My response to this is, yes, you should've waited three months for the Bosch. As someone who grew up for 28 years without a dishwasher, and only learned how to use one when I was 29, I find it extremely ridiculous that you would compare having to wash dishes by hand for three months to becoming Amish.

I know this was a joke, obviously, but it was in poor taste. Your Wednesday walks have been a highlight of my week for a few months now, but now I'm extremely disappointed that this is the way you express disgust at the results of your own impatience.

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