The Calypso washer, nick-named the “Collapse-o,” has been a huge debacle for Whirlpool with numerous and frequent failures. You can almost hear the Whirlpool engineers asking themselves, “What the hell were we smoking when we pulled this thing out of our sphincters?” To top it off, intermittent problems are the worst kind to troubleshoot and repair. Read the heart-warming story of one grasshopper’s tenacity and triumph in battling this most infuriating of washer malfunctions.