Tuesday, 18 June 2002

Fridge Stories

When we got home Sunday night our roommate confessed that he had wrecked our fridge. It was a very old and crappy fridge which you had to defrost like once a month if you wanted to use the tiny built in freezer compartment. Of course we were too lazy to do that once a month which meant that we didn't have a freezer. You couldn't have used that darn thing for much more than making ice cubes anyhow. Not even a frozen pizza fit in there.

On the weekend Simon (the roommate) decided it was time to defrost it. So he turned it off and because the thick ice crust around the freezer compartment didn't melt fast enough for his taste he used a hammer and a screwdriver to chop off large chunks of ice. He was almost done when the screwdriver accidentally hit one of the cooling conduits and he got sprayed with cooling fluid. And that was the end of that fridge.

So Michi and I set out to buy a new fridge yesterday. We found a very cool one with a separate freezer compartment for a very good price. They could have delivered it but not before Wednesday. So we decided to transport it to our flat ourselves with the help of Foo. We managed to fit it in but the rear flap wouldn't close so we tied it down.

At home we first had to get the old fridge out of the cupboard it was built into. Neither the fridge nor the inside of that cupboard were a pretty sight. After seeing this I don't want to think about how our flat looked before we moved in. It must have been a complete mess. Anyhow, Michi volunteered to clean it (for which I'm eternally grateful). That job was almost as bad as cleaning up the bathroom after the toilet incident (but that is another story). So I cleaned the new fridge and then half dissassembled it to change the side the doors open to.

New fridge is in place now and it looks great :) Only problem is that it's bigger than the old one and we have to find a new place for our pots and pans now which used to live underneath the old fridge.

So in the end I even have to thank Simon for wrecking the old fridge. He should have done that years ago ;)

  Posted by Edda at 13:45 CET