Microwave door failed and my roommate blamed the leftover spaghetti

Three weeks ago our apartment microwave just stopped closing properly. The latch broke off the frame and the door would hang open. My roommate Mark insisted it was because I left spaghetti sauce on the handle and it corroded something inside. I looked up the model online and found out a replacement latch costs $8 and takes five minutes to install with a screwdriver. I ordered the part and fixed it last Tuesday while Mark was at work. Has anyone else had a roommate jump to wild conclusions about a simple broken appliance?

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norathomas26d ago

...and that honestly sounds exactly like something my old roommate would have done, lol. I had a similar thing happen with our toaster once. The lever got stuck and wouldnt pop up, and my roommate swore it was because I left butter on the bread and it somehow melted into the mechanism. Turns out a crumb tray was just jammed up and I cleaned it out with a paperclip. Its like some people just need to make everything a personal failing instead of a simple, predictable mechanical issue. Your roommate probably just wanted an excuse to not fix it himself or felt embarrassed that he couldnt figure out an $8 latch. At least you got it sorted without a big argument, thats a win in my book.

simonl1126d ago

The toaster thing is a perfect example though. You spent what, maybe 10 minutes with a paperclip and it was done. But the roommate made it about butter and character flaws or whatever. People get weird about appliances like they have feelings. I fixed a stuck garbage disposal once with a hex wrench that came with the unit. Took longer to find the wrench than to actually fix it. Sometimes a jam is just a jam.