What Would A Real Man Do?
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A month or so ago my fridge failed - just stopped cooling enough to be safe, with the evaporator fan not turning on. I threw out all the soon-to-be-spoiled food and tore into the thing looking for something that was broken. Not only did I not find anything, the silly thing started working again. I gave it a good cleaning, chased away the dust bunnies, reassembled it and decided to watch and see for a while. It didn't fail again for weeks, so I gradually restocked it and figured it was a fluke. I spent most of last week off work, taking some long needed vacation time, enjoying the holiday and fireworks across the Colorado River, thinking not a thing about the fridge, since the problem ceased to exist as if by magic. This morning I was due back to work bright and early, and I plan to make spaghetti for the office this week, so I opened the fridge to grab all the fixin's and found that the damned thing failed again!!!:mad: Oh, the frozen stuff was still frozen, and the freezer compartment was mostly okay, but the refrigerator section was far too warm for safety. I toddled off to work, unable to do anything about the problem today. Of course, upon arriving I found absolute mayhem - the usual result of taking a few days off. The power had failed, our solar power system ceased generating power, the emergency generator never started, and the main network switch for all our computing systems was dark - permanently fried. We had a little monsoon storm activity while I was away, it seems... Anyway, after getting things sorted out at work I was fit to be tied, all benefits of a short vacation erased in a single day. I did some searching for refrigerators and it turned out that Lowes has a great sale on appliances going on! Having spent my pay on bills and food to stock the fridge, I had only my NRA credit card available - something I hate to use, but I'm glad to have available for emergencies. I found a nice little basic fridge I can afford on sale for <$500, and in stock at my local store, so I bought it. After work I picked it up and brought it home. The beast outweighs me by quite a bit, but I got it out of the truck safely. With much scientific cleverness and leverage (thank you, Archimedes), I was able to get the thing onto a hand truck and dragged to the kitchen door. Oops; the door is 1" too narrow for it to fit. So, off the porch, onto the rain softened dirt in the yard for a grueling drag around the house to another, wider door... I eventually got the box inside the house and reasonably close to its desti
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A month or so ago my fridge failed - just stopped cooling enough to be safe, with the evaporator fan not turning on. I threw out all the soon-to-be-spoiled food and tore into the thing looking for something that was broken. Not only did I not find anything, the silly thing started working again. I gave it a good cleaning, chased away the dust bunnies, reassembled it and decided to watch and see for a while. It didn't fail again for weeks, so I gradually restocked it and figured it was a fluke. I spent most of last week off work, taking some long needed vacation time, enjoying the holiday and fireworks across the Colorado River, thinking not a thing about the fridge, since the problem ceased to exist as if by magic. This morning I was due back to work bright and early, and I plan to make spaghetti for the office this week, so I opened the fridge to grab all the fixin's and found that the damned thing failed again!!!:mad: Oh, the frozen stuff was still frozen, and the freezer compartment was mostly okay, but the refrigerator section was far too warm for safety. I toddled off to work, unable to do anything about the problem today. Of course, upon arriving I found absolute mayhem - the usual result of taking a few days off. The power had failed, our solar power system ceased generating power, the emergency generator never started, and the main network switch for all our computing systems was dark - permanently fried. We had a little monsoon storm activity while I was away, it seems... Anyway, after getting things sorted out at work I was fit to be tied, all benefits of a short vacation erased in a single day. I did some searching for refrigerators and it turned out that Lowes has a great sale on appliances going on! Having spent my pay on bills and food to stock the fridge, I had only my NRA credit card available - something I hate to use, but I'm glad to have available for emergencies. I found a nice little basic fridge I can afford on sale for <$500, and in stock at my local store, so I bought it. After work I picked it up and brought it home. The beast outweighs me by quite a bit, but I got it out of the truck safely. With much scientific cleverness and leverage (thank you, Archimedes), I was able to get the thing onto a hand truck and dragged to the kitchen door. Oops; the door is 1" too narrow for it to fit. So, off the porch, onto the rain softened dirt in the yard for a grueling drag around the house to another, wider door... I eventually got the box inside the house and reasonably close to its desti
It's a PITA getting new appliances, isn't it? Last time I bought a new cooker / stove it was two inches wider than the old - not a problem, I'll just have to move one unit over two inches... Why do people not tile under units? And when you tile a floor, and you use partial tiles so you don't have to tile under a single narrow unit, could you please get "spares" or buy tiles that will stay on sale for a few years? A nice simple job takes a week to do if you don't...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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A month or so ago my fridge failed - just stopped cooling enough to be safe, with the evaporator fan not turning on. I threw out all the soon-to-be-spoiled food and tore into the thing looking for something that was broken. Not only did I not find anything, the silly thing started working again. I gave it a good cleaning, chased away the dust bunnies, reassembled it and decided to watch and see for a while. It didn't fail again for weeks, so I gradually restocked it and figured it was a fluke. I spent most of last week off work, taking some long needed vacation time, enjoying the holiday and fireworks across the Colorado River, thinking not a thing about the fridge, since the problem ceased to exist as if by magic. This morning I was due back to work bright and early, and I plan to make spaghetti for the office this week, so I opened the fridge to grab all the fixin's and found that the damned thing failed again!!!:mad: Oh, the frozen stuff was still frozen, and the freezer compartment was mostly okay, but the refrigerator section was far too warm for safety. I toddled off to work, unable to do anything about the problem today. Of course, upon arriving I found absolute mayhem - the usual result of taking a few days off. The power had failed, our solar power system ceased generating power, the emergency generator never started, and the main network switch for all our computing systems was dark - permanently fried. We had a little monsoon storm activity while I was away, it seems... Anyway, after getting things sorted out at work I was fit to be tied, all benefits of a short vacation erased in a single day. I did some searching for refrigerators and it turned out that Lowes has a great sale on appliances going on! Having spent my pay on bills and food to stock the fridge, I had only my NRA credit card available - something I hate to use, but I'm glad to have available for emergencies. I found a nice little basic fridge I can afford on sale for <$500, and in stock at my local store, so I bought it. After work I picked it up and brought it home. The beast outweighs me by quite a bit, but I got it out of the truck safely. With much scientific cleverness and leverage (thank you, Archimedes), I was able to get the thing onto a hand truck and dragged to the kitchen door. Oops; the door is 1" too narrow for it to fit. So, off the porch, onto the rain softened dirt in the yard for a grueling drag around the house to another, wider door... I eventually got the box inside the house and reasonably close to its desti
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I think rather than loose the cabinet space, I would have cut a notch out of them in the short term, and framed them round the fridge! :)
That was my first thought, but the gap was too large.
Will Rogers never met me.
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A month or so ago my fridge failed - just stopped cooling enough to be safe, with the evaporator fan not turning on. I threw out all the soon-to-be-spoiled food and tore into the thing looking for something that was broken. Not only did I not find anything, the silly thing started working again. I gave it a good cleaning, chased away the dust bunnies, reassembled it and decided to watch and see for a while. It didn't fail again for weeks, so I gradually restocked it and figured it was a fluke. I spent most of last week off work, taking some long needed vacation time, enjoying the holiday and fireworks across the Colorado River, thinking not a thing about the fridge, since the problem ceased to exist as if by magic. This morning I was due back to work bright and early, and I plan to make spaghetti for the office this week, so I opened the fridge to grab all the fixin's and found that the damned thing failed again!!!:mad: Oh, the frozen stuff was still frozen, and the freezer compartment was mostly okay, but the refrigerator section was far too warm for safety. I toddled off to work, unable to do anything about the problem today. Of course, upon arriving I found absolute mayhem - the usual result of taking a few days off. The power had failed, our solar power system ceased generating power, the emergency generator never started, and the main network switch for all our computing systems was dark - permanently fried. We had a little monsoon storm activity while I was away, it seems... Anyway, after getting things sorted out at work I was fit to be tied, all benefits of a short vacation erased in a single day. I did some searching for refrigerators and it turned out that Lowes has a great sale on appliances going on! Having spent my pay on bills and food to stock the fridge, I had only my NRA credit card available - something I hate to use, but I'm glad to have available for emergencies. I found a nice little basic fridge I can afford on sale for <$500, and in stock at my local store, so I bought it. After work I picked it up and brought it home. The beast outweighs me by quite a bit, but I got it out of the truck safely. With much scientific cleverness and leverage (thank you, Archimedes), I was able to get the thing onto a hand truck and dragged to the kitchen door. Oops; the door is 1" too narrow for it to fit. So, off the porch, onto the rain softened dirt in the yard for a grueling drag around the house to another, wider door... I eventually got the box inside the house and reasonably close to its desti
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A month or so ago my fridge failed - just stopped cooling enough to be safe, with the evaporator fan not turning on. I threw out all the soon-to-be-spoiled food and tore into the thing looking for something that was broken. Not only did I not find anything, the silly thing started working again. I gave it a good cleaning, chased away the dust bunnies, reassembled it and decided to watch and see for a while. It didn't fail again for weeks, so I gradually restocked it and figured it was a fluke. I spent most of last week off work, taking some long needed vacation time, enjoying the holiday and fireworks across the Colorado River, thinking not a thing about the fridge, since the problem ceased to exist as if by magic. This morning I was due back to work bright and early, and I plan to make spaghetti for the office this week, so I opened the fridge to grab all the fixin's and found that the damned thing failed again!!!:mad: Oh, the frozen stuff was still frozen, and the freezer compartment was mostly okay, but the refrigerator section was far too warm for safety. I toddled off to work, unable to do anything about the problem today. Of course, upon arriving I found absolute mayhem - the usual result of taking a few days off. The power had failed, our solar power system ceased generating power, the emergency generator never started, and the main network switch for all our computing systems was dark - permanently fried. We had a little monsoon storm activity while I was away, it seems... Anyway, after getting things sorted out at work I was fit to be tied, all benefits of a short vacation erased in a single day. I did some searching for refrigerators and it turned out that Lowes has a great sale on appliances going on! Having spent my pay on bills and food to stock the fridge, I had only my NRA credit card available - something I hate to use, but I'm glad to have available for emergencies. I found a nice little basic fridge I can afford on sale for <$500, and in stock at my local store, so I bought it. After work I picked it up and brought it home. The beast outweighs me by quite a bit, but I got it out of the truck safely. With much scientific cleverness and leverage (thank you, Archimedes), I was able to get the thing onto a hand truck and dragged to the kitchen door. Oops; the door is 1" too narrow for it to fit. So, off the porch, onto the rain softened dirt in the yard for a grueling drag around the house to another, wider door... I eventually got the box inside the house and reasonably close to its desti
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A month or so ago my fridge failed - just stopped cooling enough to be safe, with the evaporator fan not turning on. I threw out all the soon-to-be-spoiled food and tore into the thing looking for something that was broken. Not only did I not find anything, the silly thing started working again. I gave it a good cleaning, chased away the dust bunnies, reassembled it and decided to watch and see for a while. It didn't fail again for weeks, so I gradually restocked it and figured it was a fluke. I spent most of last week off work, taking some long needed vacation time, enjoying the holiday and fireworks across the Colorado River, thinking not a thing about the fridge, since the problem ceased to exist as if by magic. This morning I was due back to work bright and early, and I plan to make spaghetti for the office this week, so I opened the fridge to grab all the fixin's and found that the damned thing failed again!!!:mad: Oh, the frozen stuff was still frozen, and the freezer compartment was mostly okay, but the refrigerator section was far too warm for safety. I toddled off to work, unable to do anything about the problem today. Of course, upon arriving I found absolute mayhem - the usual result of taking a few days off. The power had failed, our solar power system ceased generating power, the emergency generator never started, and the main network switch for all our computing systems was dark - permanently fried. We had a little monsoon storm activity while I was away, it seems... Anyway, after getting things sorted out at work I was fit to be tied, all benefits of a short vacation erased in a single day. I did some searching for refrigerators and it turned out that Lowes has a great sale on appliances going on! Having spent my pay on bills and food to stock the fridge, I had only my NRA credit card available - something I hate to use, but I'm glad to have available for emergencies. I found a nice little basic fridge I can afford on sale for <$500, and in stock at my local store, so I bought it. After work I picked it up and brought it home. The beast outweighs me by quite a bit, but I got it out of the truck safely. With much scientific cleverness and leverage (thank you, Archimedes), I was able to get the thing onto a hand truck and dragged to the kitchen door. Oops; the door is 1" too narrow for it to fit. So, off the porch, onto the rain softened dirt in the yard for a grueling drag around the house to another, wider door... I eventually got the box inside the house and reasonably close to its desti
And here I was thinking "chainsaw" when you said the new 'fridge wouldn't fit. :-D Your story reminds me of a time I helped a friend get an old refrigerator out of a basement. The basement steps had been replaced and the doorway modified since the refrigerator had been placed downstairs. It took us a couple hours, a couple 'come-along's, and partial disassembly of the doorway to get the thing out.
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Since the fridge wasn't working, you obviously had no cold beer available - the only recourse would be to go to a pub.
Fortunately, I had plenty of scotch available, else I would have been doomed.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Fortunately, I had plenty of scotch available, else I would have been doomed.
Will Rogers never met me.
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A month or so ago my fridge failed - just stopped cooling enough to be safe, with the evaporator fan not turning on. I threw out all the soon-to-be-spoiled food and tore into the thing looking for something that was broken. Not only did I not find anything, the silly thing started working again. I gave it a good cleaning, chased away the dust bunnies, reassembled it and decided to watch and see for a while. It didn't fail again for weeks, so I gradually restocked it and figured it was a fluke. I spent most of last week off work, taking some long needed vacation time, enjoying the holiday and fireworks across the Colorado River, thinking not a thing about the fridge, since the problem ceased to exist as if by magic. This morning I was due back to work bright and early, and I plan to make spaghetti for the office this week, so I opened the fridge to grab all the fixin's and found that the damned thing failed again!!!:mad: Oh, the frozen stuff was still frozen, and the freezer compartment was mostly okay, but the refrigerator section was far too warm for safety. I toddled off to work, unable to do anything about the problem today. Of course, upon arriving I found absolute mayhem - the usual result of taking a few days off. The power had failed, our solar power system ceased generating power, the emergency generator never started, and the main network switch for all our computing systems was dark - permanently fried. We had a little monsoon storm activity while I was away, it seems... Anyway, after getting things sorted out at work I was fit to be tied, all benefits of a short vacation erased in a single day. I did some searching for refrigerators and it turned out that Lowes has a great sale on appliances going on! Having spent my pay on bills and food to stock the fridge, I had only my NRA credit card available - something I hate to use, but I'm glad to have available for emergencies. I found a nice little basic fridge I can afford on sale for <$500, and in stock at my local store, so I bought it. After work I picked it up and brought it home. The beast outweighs me by quite a bit, but I got it out of the truck safely. With much scientific cleverness and leverage (thank you, Archimedes), I was able to get the thing onto a hand truck and dragged to the kitchen door. Oops; the door is 1" too narrow for it to fit. So, off the porch, onto the rain softened dirt in the yard for a grueling drag around the house to another, wider door... I eventually got the box inside the house and reasonably close to its desti
You lost me at "fridge". I'm not reading all that. Keep it light, keep it bright, keep it gay.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
