Double Trouble

We have done it at last; we bought a new fridge to replace the dinosaur in our kitchen. It has been with us for over 25 years and the last of these were spent making the oddest of noises. In its lifetime, we have replaced numerous inner seals, many lights, had the gas refilled once and the thermostat replaced at least twice as well. It has now reached the end of its life for us and it is time to make way for a new, state of the art model, complete with an ice cube maker on the inside. The old fridge is a standard two door, one on top of the other fridge, with the deep freezer compartment at the bottom and the fridge part at the top. It gave us many years of good service and thinking back of the overloading the poor thing had to undergo at party times and other, I am sad to part with such an important part of my life.

The new space age thing is a double door, side by side fridge freezer, and has much more space and features than the old fridge. Immediately we stock it up, full of wonderful sausages, meats, frozen vegetables, ice cream and ice-lollies in the deep freezer side, and fresh fruit juice, butter, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, eggs and cream in the fridge side. Of course we have to try the ice cube maker as well. The new fridge takes up more space in the kitchen, and we have to get rid of the old fridge somehow. It still works, although a little wonky, and we call around, hearing if someone will need a fridge.

A friend of mine down town let me know that their little fridge they have in their staff kitchen is too small for all their needs, and many things have gone off because it just couldn’t handle the over loads. They would gladly take the fridge off our hands. They just have one problem, they cannot come and fetch the thing. Is it at all possible, she asks, that we could take it there? I’ve been to her place of work often, and therefore know where it is. Another friend of ours have a pickup truck and agrees to do us a favor and take the fridge to the down town industrial area.

Of course I go along. I have to say goodbye to my trusty old friend the fridge. At the warehouse where we have to drop off the fridge, there are five huge commercial garage doors. Four of these doors are wide open and each has a big truck parked in its bay, busy loading goods to be delivered. My friend directs us to the fifth door and disappears inside. We hear a soft burring noise while we are waiting patiently outside, and slowly the door opens up. Our friend’s head appears from behind the side while she is operating the garage door opener that is installed on the wall inside, next to the door. She doesn’t open the door all the way, as all we need is to off load the fridge. There is no need for the thing to go all the way up. Once done, she goes back inside, waves us goodbye from the inside, and again operating the garage door opener, close the door.

On our way home, I remarked that the control thing should be named “opener” when in fact it would be able to “close” the door as well. Isn’t that calling for double trouble?

By: Jacob Vah

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