Kitchen Turned Indoor Pool

Last night started out normal. Got one load of laundry done and started another in the washer. Sat down to watch Wipe Out with the kids. After a few minutes I go into the kitchen to get something and notice a pretty big puddle in the middle of the floor. Sadly my first thought was what the heck did James get into. If you knew James you’d know why I thought this. More water is flowing across the floor. I do mean flowing! I turn the dishwasher off first thinking it was that. Maybe I got a knife or something small wedged in the door making a gap and it’s leaking. Nope not the dishwasher as more water flows through the kitchen at a rapid pace. I look at the washer. It’s over flowing with water. It’s running AND filling when I should have stopped filling. Naturally I hit the knob to make it stop. Washer stops but water is still flowing into and out of the washer. I do this several times. It’s not working! I yell at the washer to stop. Plead with it to stop. It laughs and keeps going. I’m getting pretty alarmed at this point watching water flow through my kitchen. Mean while the kids are having a blast with our new indoor pool. Cole runs and changes into shorts. I’m yelling at him to get out. I don’t need 2 kids slipping through the kitchen. I’m throwing any towel I can get my hand on onto the floor hoping to sop some of it up as it still continues to flow. My efforts fail miserably. I stare at the washer. Look behind it thinking there should be a turn off knob or something. Seemed logical to me. Well there isn’t one. A man must have designed the plumbing. Finally I think to yank out the plug, with wet hands and standing in a pool of water. Brilliant I know. Well the washer stops but ITS STILL FILLING WITH WATER!!! At this point I’m convinced it’s possessed now. Finally it stops after maybe 30 seconds but felt like AGES! I was about to go outside and turn off, well hope I could remember how to turn off the water at the water main. David showed me once a few years ago. You take the metal rod thing and remove the lid and turn the other thing inside. Which way you turn it I don’t remember and where the rod thing is, I have no idea. Used to be by the front door. Anyway. I am trying to sop up the water, throwing stuff out side so I can see where all the water went. Pretty much everywhere! David comes home at this point and mutters what the hell. Or something along those lines. I inform him what had just transpired. He goes to the washer and has the nerve to get irritated that I dropped the cord behind the washer. Well that wasn’t my main concern at the time! MY concern was stopping the evil washer turned Niagara Falls! He pumps the water out of the washer and all that was in the tray the washer sits in to catch drips. Haha. Wrings out the clothes that aren’t clean since I had just put them in and put them in the dryer. I decide not to tell him and will just take them out and rewash them whenever I get a washer back. David muscles the washer outside to look at it. He thinks it’s done. We’ve had it for 7 years and don’t know how old it actually was. We bought it with the dryer used for $100 for the set. It was on its last legs anyway. No matter what you did or put in it it would get out of balance. So you’d have to hold it down through the spin cycles. Kids liked to sit on it while it did that. So I am hoping David comes home with a new washer today. Both baskets are over flowing plus a pile in our room and whatever the kids and strewn through the house