What are the chances
that the refrigerator compressor would go out today -- so we take all the food to the garage freezer and the camper refrigerator and freezer. THEN, after Andi and Big Guy go home at 10 pm they call back to tell me that the ice cream they had stashed in the garage freezer upon their arrival this afternoon at 5 was melted - and the door was tightly shut when they went to get it - and I need to go check the garage freezer -- which I did - only to find the food on the door thawing. Luckily, we have 2 freezers in the garage, but in the interest of science and mainly because it is late, the kids are asleep and I am lazy, I decide to experiment rather than panic. I'm hoping that when I went out around 8:30 the door had been left slightly ajar from where the kids had carried stuff our earlier upon the discovery of the refrigerator's early demise and that hopefully at that point at 8:30 I closed it tightly. It seems that nothing actually IN the freezer (shelves) was thawing - just the door stuff. So rather than move everything to freezer #2, I instead put a small amount of water in a bowl, added some ice, closed the door securely, prayed, and walked away. I will stay up for a couple of hours to check and see if that ice is making a larger ice sculpture - or melting. At that point, I will have a tough decision. Unload freezer #1, or go to bed and deal with it in the morning. How much stuff can thaw overnight anyway? Oh sure, ice cream - but it's already all been thrown away. Good bye Mint Chocolate Chip. Good bye BRAND NEW half gallon of Cinnamon. I'm sorry we never got to meet. Good bye pineapple sherbert soft serve from the local ice cream joint. Makes me sad just writing about it. On the plus side, my refrigerator is now spotless. Bill removed all the shelves and racks once it was empty and Andi and Big Guy helped me clean it and then Bill put it all back together for me.
I was also able to get hold of the Whirlpool people after a lot of computer questions about what the heck I was wanting from them, where the kind lady with the thick accent told me I was on the "priority" list, which, in case you don't know, means that she will try to get someone to call me tomorrow. Nice. And no, I do not have a receipt - but I do have this handy dandy factory applied metal thing on the inside that says Mfg. 08/03. Will that do for proof that it is still under the 5 year warranty? She assures me it will. We shall see. Because as you know, I am Priority #1 to Whirlpool.
