 Comedy: October 23, 2024 Issue [#12786] |
This week: I'm In Love With My Fridge! Edited by: Tangled in Ghostly Witch-Webs  
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When one appliance goes another follows. It's a law of nature and physics we never learned in school.
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Hello everyone! Happy October, or what I fondly call "Spooktober." It's a month of laughs and screams all at the same time. What could be more fun than that?
It's been quite a crazy ride through the summer and into fall. So much was going on in everyday life I barely noticed everything falling apart around the house all at once. I have to reach back into my brain to pull out when it all started. But, we'll begin here.
A few months ago I noticed my washing machine was chewing at clothes. I know, that would be an appropriate flash horror fiction to run with, however, this was real. After having to pry a couple items stuck in the agitator fins, legs, flaps, whatever they are, I noticed a little fin popped off with the clothes removal. I couldn't figure out what made my machine go crippled on me all of a sudden. The motor worked fine, the cycles were spot on, but the spinning cycle added that extra something...chew-ability!
Now I've had dramatic moments with washing machines. Those were both front loaders. As if I didn't learn after the first front loader and stubbornly ordered another one. My first front loader was a Maytag. Great brand name for decades. I remember watching the lonely Maytag repair man sitting by the phone waiting for a repair call. Nothing! Appliances were built to last back then. Somewhere along the line, appliance makers figured out they weren't getting as many sales since their products last many years longer than they do, now. So they did the smartest thing they could do to fuel a healthy bottom line in the business -- they made appliances with a hidden "kill" switch that ends their mechanical lives at the moment an appliance turns seven years old. I dumped both front loaders after they popped open and filled my floor with water. I vowed never to buy another "smart" machine. I went for simple, mechanical top loader after that happened on two different maker front loaders.
So, back to the current washing machine. I found I could replace the entire agitator and have my machine back and working. My son fixed that a couple months ago. Well that worked for a couple months until last week when those little paddles started self-destructing. Well actually they had help from a pair of Carhartt overalls. The strap got caught underneath and other clothes decided to follow suit and before I knew it, I was untangling items from the unreliable fins, paddles ... whatever! 
I had thoughts of getting a new machine. The life of mine was within the bites the dust stage. The thought of replacing the agitator again for a two month work period just didn't seem practical.
"So, what about the fridge, WebWitch? Your title says You're in love with your fridge."
Yeah, I was getting to that. 
At the time the washing machine was going batty on me, my fridge decided it had enough work for its lifetime. There were loud banging noises emitting from it. Then, it went into a hauntingly irritating hum! 
It stopped being a fridge and turned into a big storage container of dead and dying food.  The meat I could salvage got placed in my chest freezer. My travel ice chest took the other perishable items that were good. Then came the search for a new refrigerator. I had Ruby in the shop for her annual checkup and sticker application, so physically shopping for one was not in the books. Also, I had the lovely experience of a root canal at the dentist I cheated on my dentist with, going on at the same time. Just to make this whole experience more memorable of course.
I found Amazon to be my friend as I glanced through page, after page of refrigerator offerings. I have my quirks though. I refuse to get a fridge with a top freezer. I always bump my head getting back up after leaning into the lower part of the fridge to find something. I still have one of those down South, but it came with the house. With my luck, I'm sure it will need replacing soon.
Finally, my search ended! It was a convertible fridge or freezer. Since I already had a deep freezer, and there weren't many bottom freezer fridges on sale, I figured it would be a good purchase for my needs. I wanted simple. One door, no extra things to fall apart. No water and ice dispenser either. I ordered that and I won't even bore you in this edition with trying to get it through my inner doorways. That's for another time.  All I know is...I love it! All fridge. Lots of room for large roasts pans awaiting the oven in the morning. What a concept! No worries about defrosting, or freezer pipes clogging. No dripping water pan ...no, No, NO, None!!! It's a wonderful thing. Hopefully it will last for many years to come!
It's a BOOtiful October wrap for this edition of the Comedy Newsletter.
 
Have a BOOsome Month! 
And ...Be careful out there! 
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