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Overloading the Machine
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It's Overloading the Machine as in, the washing machine, primarily. The name comes from the laundromat next door. They have very large signs on each machine which say, in all-caps, "DO NOT OVERLOAD THE MACHINE". All in all, there are at least twenty of these signs posted.
Both at the laundromat and at home, I regularly overload the machine, leading to unpredictable results.
I could feel my bloodstream panhandling my fat reserves for whatever last
traces of the vital addictol they had stored away, and I could feel my fat
cells turning out their pockets and saying sorry pal, there's nothing left.
-- Jonathan Lethem, "Gun, with Occasional Music"
This page was last modified on 2011 December 20.