Oh, so refrigerators break. Hmm.
I pulled a beer from the fridge and had a sip. It was slightly colder than room temperature. I opened the fridge. Not cold in there. That smell...is that fish funky already? Power on? Check. Running sound? Check. I opened the freezer. It was cold enough to chill a beer but not cold enough to freeze anything. Chicken breasts that were once hard as bricks were now malleable. I checked the settings. They were all where I expected them to be.
Oh, wait. Appliances break sometimes. This must be one of those times. We have a dozen people coming over in two days, three nights.
Me: "It just has to pick the worst possible time to crap out."
Nik:"Is there a good time for a fridge to crap out?"
Me (stubbornly):"...yes..."
I vacuumed lint off the coils. No help. I stood with the door open, staring helplessly at approximately two hundred bucks worth of food on a steady downward decline toward room temperature. It's now 9:00 p.m. Home Depot is open until 10. Vroom, we're there.
Looking at the many different refrigerators, we realize we were so tired and aggravated by the timing of all this that I forgot to bring the measurements. Sigh...Vroom, we're home. Vroom, we're back at Home Depot. No wait a minute, it was Lowe's.
Within five minutes we realize that our fridge nook is seriously limiting what we can buy. We want X, but we can only fit Y. Food spoiling, beer warming, 33 condiments going to hell. And we're about to buy a fridge that we wouldn't have given a second look had our available dimensions not been an issue. There was much grumbling.
Conversation culled from the moment:
Nik: "Let's get the Frigidaire. It has a much better logo.
Me: "Oh, that's a good reason to buy a fridge."
Ten minutes later I was agreeing with her. The two fridges being equal, that logo does look...cooler...than Whirlpool's. Let's get it. But wait...look at this. The height and width are perfect, but the Frigidaire is too deep for our fridge nook. That nook is killing us. They deliver the Whirlpool tomorrow.
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5 Comments:
My cousin Willow and I had the same thing happen to us back when we shared a place. But unlike you we didn't get a choice on a new fridge.
Our landlord brought us a nice cheapo plain white...thing.
He didn't even take the old one out. Just had it pushed to the corner of the dining room. It got cleaned out and I had thought of turning it into a storage, but I soon found out that even after you clean it the evil green mold comes back.
Luckily we were moving out.
12:34 AM
We bought a whirlpool as well. It has better repair records than the Frigidaire. We were space-limited as well. Nothing a reciporicating saw with a sharp blade or two wouldn't fix, though.
6:21 AM
Some unsolicited advice - clean it out and throw stuff away sooner than later. Later is bad. Really bad.... Ghostbusters "bad".... Ray?
We, too, had an "issue" with our fridge. Cost me the whole kitchen....
I don't know if you knew this or not but 90% of all fridges are made by the same company. Therefore, choosing by picking which logo looks nicer is actually not that unreasonable.
If I was only allowed to buy cars that way....
Dave
8:29 AM
No, I didn't know that about fridge manufacturers. Who is it?
8:40 AM
Actually, it's certain parts of the fridge that are made by the same folks, but to different specs. The design of the appliance itself is different.
Dave is right that stuff is made by the same factory, so quality control will probably vary little. But the factory will build different parts per different design or schematic. Companies can also specify different fault tolerances for the part they are contracting the factory to make, which can affect price and quality.
11:16 AM
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