A screwdriver, despite witnessing the chaos caused by a drill bit left in my dads pocket when I was a kid, I still managed to leave a screwdriver in a shirt pocket, we have a whirlpool top loading machine and inevitably the screwdriver worked it's way through a hole in the drum and eventually got a hold on the outer plastic bucket thing and ripped a 4 inch long hole in it, luckily it's in the bathroom on a wet floor, unfortunately you wouldn't normally dump that amount of water on the floor in a few seconds, so it kind of escaped into the kitchen, luckily it immediately left the kitchen in favour of the wooden living room floor, unfortunately we didn't notice any of this for some time. dirty water with detergent in it absolutely destroys wooden floors but my immediate concern was the broken washing machine, so I took it apart and quickly discovered the problem and made a few phone calls, the part is available and not expensive but it is in Mexico, which even by my standards is a bit of a treck.

The immediate solution was to melt some plastic from an oil can into,onto and around the hole, bizarrely it's still holding 4 weeks later, hopefully it'll last longer than it's going to take Pedro to paddle here in the plastic bucket thing.

The sitting room floor is still fucked.