'Just to let you know' the childcare manager said to me one Monday morning, 'The washing machine has broken, it just broke last night when my clothes were in there'
'So you broke the washing machine?'
'No, it definitely wasn't me, I had nothing to do with it, It just happened that it broke when my clothes were in it'.
I have never heard anyone say anything with such certainty. He was 100% sure that it most certainly definitely was not his fault that the washing machine was broken. The rep was stood behind him pulling faces, making it obvious that she was convinced that it was his fault that the washing machine was broken.
'What happened to the washing machine' I said
'well I put my work uniform and some pants in it (I think he told me what he has loaded the washing machine with in case I thought he had put bricks in it or something) and then went to bed and forty minutes later me and the rep woke up because the house was shaking and there was lots of banging noises. I'm surprised it didn't wake you up'
I refrained from telling him that when there was loud banging noises and the house was shaking I put my pillow over my head and went back to sleep, I did not get up to investigate. I caught the reps eye and could tell she was thinking the same thing as I was.
The child care manager took our laughter as a sign that we didn't believe his washing machine story and his protests grew, 'My stuff had been in there for 40 minutes, it couldn't have been my fault or it would have broken earlier'
'you didn't close the machine properly did you?'
'yes I did. Forty minutes!!'
'you were tired because it was transfer day and just didn't close the machine'
'if it was my fault it would have broken straight away, not after forty minutes'
The washing machine repair man was called out and said he had never seen such a damaged machine. We got a new one. I never quite trusted the child care manger with it again. Frequent washing machine comments were a sure fire way to make him apoplectic and and repeatedly utter the words 'forty minutes!!!'
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