I had the last week off from work and returned on Sunday. A few hours after my return, I got a text stating that our refrigerator/freezer had stopped working.
This unit has had a troubled history. In the past, the refrigerator went on strike but the freezer stayed on duty. This time, both components failed. We had been stockpiling food due to supply chain concerns and now the contents were in jeopardy.
I purchased six bags of ice and returned home. We reluctantly tossed a lot of food. We cooked as much as we could and put the contents on ice. A good neighbor let us store a few bags of things like eggs and mayonnaise in his refrigerator. We tried giving away unopened food but the good neighbor declined all of it.
There is more to the story and if I did not feel such a sense of urgency to discuss the stolen election I would provide the blow by blow. We got a new slightly scratched floor model or equivalent delivered on Wednesday. A boxscore would look like this:
1. Food loss: Roughly $100.
2. New refrigerator: $700.
3. Delivery and removal of the old refrigerator: $200.
4. Service charge to pronounce the unit dead. $129.
5. Time spent trying to troubleshoot and repair unit: Approximately 5 hours.
6. Time spent looking online and in-person for new refrigerators and/or freezer: At least 10 hours.
7, Time spent calling repairmen and appliance removal services: At least 2 hours.
8. Time spent with the grim reaper repairman and delivery guy including wait time in three-hour windows: 6 hours, absorbed by my significant other.
9. Lost sleep: Considerable.
10. Frayed nerves: Considerable but remedied.
11, Domestic discord: Temporarily acute but now long gone.
What a week.
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