Thanks to a sales guy who was willing to use his rough English (still\n worlds better than my French) we’ve bought a washer & dryer and \nthey’ll be delivered and installed Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After looking a bit online and comparing prices, we went to Conforama<\/a>\n just up rte. d’Arlon. The sales guy recommended Zanussi (a division of\n Electrolux) saying they offer good value for money, they’re reliable, \nand if you do need service it’s quick to schedule. He steered us away \nfrom some of more expensive *cough*German*cough* brands, mostly because \ngetting service if needed can be a real scheduling hassle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unfortunately, the model he pointed us at was only 6kg capacity, and \nwe were pretty sure we wanted at least 7kg. (Actually, we wanted an \nAmerican I-only-do-laundry-every-couple-weeks-and-cram-it-all-in \ncapacity, but they don’t seem to make those here.) Turns out we wanted \n*exactly* 7, ’cause going to 8 or more added over 100\u20ac. He didn’t have a\n 7kg Zanussi, so between us we found a suitable model. But he didn’t \nhave any in stock. So he pointed us at a normally more expensive model \nand said it was on promotion for the same price as the one we picked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So he entered the order and gave us the charge slip. We did a bit \nmore looking around before heading to the counter to pay. The cashier \nproceeded rattle of a bunch of french that we didn’t understand, and \nthen we signed something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I told Dawnise that the form was permission for them to steal our soles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Subsequently we were in a housewares store in the mall and Dawnise \nwas looking at a hanging spice rack. The sales lady wanted to show her \nthat it rotated the spice at the press of a button and said something in\n French. Dawnise looked (even to me) that she understood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moments after the exchange, I told her “that’s it, she can steal your soul.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dawnise lost it and then admonished me for making her snort while laughing in a foreign store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So that was today. Mostly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We also saw two doctors, got the first part of the government \nmandated TB test (the injection) and have to return on Tuesday for chest\n X-rays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oh, and we bought a toaster, a coffee grinder (huzzah!), and a french press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thanks to a sales guy who was willing to use his rough English (still worlds better than my French) we’ve bought a washer & dryer and they’ll be delivered and installed Wednesday morning. After looking a bit online and comparing prices, we went to Conforama just up rte. d’Arlon. The sales guy recommended Zanussi (a … Continue reading “Day Three: Wherein our heroes get a shot, buy appliances, and generally fail to comprehend things”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-luxembourg","category-selected-back-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}