Pride

Listen, the knob was off the dryer for probably six months and it was terrible.  One could sort of turn the stem if there weren't a pile of clean clothes on top of the dryer, but you know that never happened, so it was necessary to grab a pair of pliers or whatever to turn the machine on...so, yeah, every waking moment was an ordeal.  Last week, then, I could take no more and went to Ace (sigh!) and got a knob and screwed it on and now we're back to a full-on nirvana around the place.

I mention this to remind you that you, too, can dare to live out a dream.