What in your home is currently nonfunctional?

In Married… with Children, and more recently in Modern Family, there was a running gag that a step (to the basement and upstairs stairwell, respectively) was broken and required attention. Jokes like these have always made me laugh because when something breaks in my house, it usually stays broken unless it becomes an overt hindrance (for example – the garage door wouldn’t close and needed to be replaced.)

For over a decade, the lock to the master bathroom has been nonfunctional. You can push the door open without any trouble (a simple tap will do.) The toilet in the washroom my siblings and I share has not worked for several months now. Our oven sputters in and out of functionality (it has to be lit manually if we want to use it.) I cannot remember the last time we ran the dishwasher (when it started leaking all over the kitchen tiles, I suppose my mum figured it would be a lesser hassle to wash our dishes in the sink.)

I’m sure there are bound to be far more Fixit foxes here ready with a tool kit to keep things operational, but surely someone else either grew up in or currently lives in a house with nonfunctional facets that have been left ignored.