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Maru's Various Charries ([info]mm_maru) wrote in [info]morningstar_mnr,
@ 2010-10-02 21:37:00

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Entry tags:andras, chandika, cindy, fin, ricky, sibyl, susan, urquhart

Ground floor, Saturday morning -- Multi-pup OTA/MW

  • Urquhart was doing the laundry, but one of the washing machines had gone weird on him. He could try and fix it on his own, but it would be much more interesting to find himself some handyman or maid and that way meet more of the staff. So he went up to the first floor to stick his head into the staff corridor and mildly bleat for help.
  • Cindy was in the lobby, waiting for Andras to return with the dog. She was reading a cooking magazine, occasionally looking up from it to still not see the two loping shapes come in through the front door.
  • Ricky was in the conservatory, wondering whether some seedlings of his mum's illicit crop might be grown here, hidden beneath and behind the regular plants.
  • Chandika was sitting in the Mocha, having a Mocha mocha with whipped cream, syrup and sprinkles. She was texting on her phone, and giggling as she was doing so.
  • Andras was outside, just around the corner, taking pictures of Axminster who was busy meeting a small pink female poodle.
  • Sibyl was in the garden, walking around and looking up at the sky, while obviously deep in thought.


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Re: Mixing and matching!
[info]ilmatar
2010-10-04 04:00 pm UTC (link)
"I might know what's wrong with it, or at least how to fix it. It gets a little messy but I can take care of it," Susan told him as they walked along the corridor to the laundry room. "My theory is that the machines actually shake off their own filters over time, just enough out of place that they get jammed up."

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Re: Mixing and matching!
[info]mm_maru
2010-10-04 06:35 pm UTC (link)
"I'm probably totally rubbish at taming washing machines," Urquhart said, following her to the laundry room.

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Re: Mixing and matching!
[info]ilmatar
2010-10-04 06:54 pm UTC (link)
"You'd be an expert if you worked with them as much as I do!" Susan reasurred him brightly. "Which one is it?"

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Re: Mixing and matching!
[info]mm_maru
2010-10-04 06:59 pm UTC (link)
"Here, number 13," Urquhart said, pointing glumly.

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Re: Mixing and matching!
[info]ilmatar
2010-10-04 07:43 pm UTC (link)
"The bad luck number, how fitting," Susan said jokingly when she made her way to the machine. She bent over in front of it - moments like these made people realize she wore shoes with heels and seemed to have shortened the skirt of the maid outfit a little. She examined it and the small screen in the panel, tried turning it off and back on, but nothing happened.

"Yeah, I think it is like I thought," she gave her diagnosis after a while, and began squeezing herself in the middle of two machines to get her hands on the back of it.

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Re: Mixing and matching!
[info]mm_maru
2010-10-04 07:49 pm UTC (link)
"Yes?" Urquhart said, hunkering down behind her.

Only to look in between the machines as well to see what she was doing, of course!

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Re: Mixing and matching!
[info]ilmatar
2010-10-06 05:34 pm UTC (link)
Susan hit the machine with a determined bang of her fist, and that opened a small hatch right where she had hit. She opened it wide and after a little bit of tweaking, she took out a filter. It was full of wet fuzz and lint, and she carried it quickly to the sink in the laundry room, holding her other hand underneath it to prevent it from dripping.

"Taking this out and putting it back usually does the trick," she explained as she rinsed the filter clean. "And I suppose cleaning them every once in a while doesn't hurt either."

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Re: Mixing and matching!
[info]mm_maru
2010-10-06 07:18 pm UTC (link)
"Am I allowed to do it myself the next time?" Urquhart asked.

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Re: Mixing and matching!
[info]ilmatar
2010-10-06 07:35 pm UTC (link)
"I suppose, but there's always the risk that you might do something wrong, or that this wouldn't be the thing to fix it," Susan said when she returned the filter to the machine and put it back to its place.

"I mean, if you break the machine when you could have asked someone from the staff to help you, you might have to pay for it," she grimaced up at him, and turned on the machine again. "There! That looks right!"

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Re: Mixing and matching!
[info]mm_maru
2010-10-06 07:39 pm UTC (link)
"It works!" Urquhart said. "Thanks!"

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