The Fridge

The fridge crashed this weekend. Saturday night to be exact so everything was lukewarm sunday morning - Great. Having a 1 year old kid who demands tons of things that needs to stay in a fridge it obviously chooses to crash on a sunday morning! Could it possibly be more inconvenient (and I'm not tempting destiny, the Goddess of Revenge or whatever you believe will punish you for saying that kind of things - I now very well things can ALWAYS get worse!)...

Well - it turns out we're lucky: The stores are open since it's the last Sunday of the month so let the hunt commence. First step is checking homepages for all major fridge stores - again and again it amazes me how outright hostile some homepages are considering they want people to buy their stuff. But we check prizes, sizes etc. and come up with a few suggestions.

When we actually stand in the first store it turns out however that it isn't size and prize that will be the deciding factor - we clearly need a new fridge fast as hell, but apparently we are the only ones in the country who waits until the old shit decides to quit, so fridges isn't something the white goods stores waste their 'sparse' storage rooms on?!? Flatscreens - oh yes, 'cause this is something people will kill to get the same day, stoves - definitely, wouldn't wait a day for my new stove, vacuum cleaners, toasters, micro-ovens, baking machines, blenders and all other kinds of household machinery are in stock, but not a freaking fucking fridge!

Of all the things you need to have replaced rather quickly when the old one crashes a fridge seems to be pretty high on the list. It isn't exactly something you upgrade because there's a new model out or fashion dictates a new colour - you generally change it because the old one has ceased to function. Oh, right - there was two in stock: A state-of-the-art monster way over our budget and a pricey one that was returned by a customer because of dents (which we could get at a tiny discount). But within a week we could get any of the models they had - a few of them within 3 days even?!? Thanks, but no thanks - what do you expect us to do in the meantime with milk, food etc for the boy?

Next store. At least here we could get one next day - actually we could get it the same day if we we skipped delivery and brought it home ourselves incl. moving it to fifth floor (90 kg, no lift, reasonable stairs), installing it and getting rid of the old fridge -could be done with some help, but that would also mean the end of that weekend 1 day premature - and with kids you learn to enjoy every second of the weekends.

Well, we got the fridge next day, it works fine, it looks good and it's way better than the old! - but why doesn't anyone have a fucking fridge in stock!