My household, like many around these parts, has a washing machine. So I put the washing in, turn it on and press start (ain't I just the model new-age-guy doing my own washing and all? ;)). Off it goes, a bit of water here, bit of spinning there... Ten minutes into the cycle it starts this weird beeping. It's not just a single beep, it's like a little beep cascade, something you'd expect it to do when it's finished to say "OMGz0rz, teh w4sh1ng iz DUN!!"
(if only washing machines knew leet-speak, the world would be a far cooler place).

Only it's doing this every 5 seconds. I have a look at the display and there are no indications that anything is wrong, and at the end of it all the washing comes out all clean-like so it can't be a terribly big deal. So you know what I think? I think that maybe my washing machine is starting to feel neglected. I think the beeps are something along the lines of:

"Hey, Tim, check this out. Yeah, it's me still, your washing machine. You know how you told me to do your washing a little while ago? Well yeah, I'm doing it still... It'll be a while yet, but I just thought you might like to know how I was going. So er, yeah, it's going well... Guess I'll just keep on spinning then eh?"

Poor, poor neglected washing machine :(