We feel fortunate that our flat comes with so many appliances--microwave, electric tea kettle, W/D (this one deserves its own post), hair dryer, coffee maker, etc. What's also nice is that the flat contains the manuals to most of these appliances in a big folder. When we tried to use the toaster yesterday, we couldn't get it to turn on or to latch down when we put a piece of bread in the slot. I even looked in the manual book, but there wasn't one there (and geez, toasters aren't that complicated, right?). So we figured it was broken and sent an email to the management company who responded right away that they would replace it today.
The guy shows up today with the new toaster, but first he tries the old one and calls me from the kitchen that it works. I run in there, stunned, ask him how he got it to turn on, and he says he just turned on the outlet and it works fine. Yes, this particular outlet in the kitchen has a switch by it that must be turned on before any electricity starts flowing. I felt like an idiot and apologized profusely to the guy for the inconvenience, and he was very nice about it.
So our toaster works after all. I still feel like an idiot. Live and learn!
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