i want my, i want my MTV…..

We spent about 6 hours last night moving refrigerators across the city and back in a Uhaul truck.

And when I say “we,” I mean “mostly Doc.” He really worked hard. Those fuckers are monstrously heavy and kind of scary to manhandle.

We acquired a new refrigerator (new to us, anyway) which we had to pick up from South Dallas, and then we transported our old fridge to Rich’s house on the complete other side of town. It took MUCH MUCH longer to move them than I anticipated. Plus, the fun part is that our door is too small to fit a fridge through. So we had to take the handles and doors off the old fridge to get it out of our house, and the new one to get it in.

And come to find out, the new one has some problems — a water leak between the bottom of the door and the water dispenser, and the frame in the middle where the side by side doors meet is getting way too hot… too hot to touch. It burned my arm and left a red mark.

I spent about 2 hours this morning cleaning out our lovely new fridge. It was pretty clean to begin with but I carefully washed all the shelves and wiped down the entire insides. Then we got the doors back on, plugged it in, and immediately noticed the little hot-frame problem and a little later noticed the water leak problem.

I woke up with a killer headache that was not improved by the scent of the cleaning products I was using (natural, but still they give off fumes). And then the fact that after the ordeal of refrigerator moving and the hours I spent meticulously cleaning it, the damn thing wasn’t even working right… ARGH. I got reeeeeally grouchy. We called some repair people, scheduled them for Thursday morning, and then I decided that I wanted to just get out of the house and turn off my brain, so we went to the mall for a while and just wandered around.

Jim said he felt awful because he and Bill had no idea there was anything wrong with it; it just didn’t fit in their new apartment kitchen. It’s only 4 years old. He said it had always been really hot right in the middle but they didn’t know that meant there was anything wrong. So, I don’t blame him for it or anything; I know he would never have knowingly sold me a broken refrigerator. It’s just circumstances.

Anyway, even if we have a medium sized repair bill, I think it will still be a bargain, especially for a stainless side-by-side fridge with ice and water in the door.