Fridge emergency

For years we've had two fridges. Both were small, inadequate, and old. One was free and the other was cheap, which is why we had two. They date from the days when we couldn't afford a new fridge, and then when we could if we wanted, the old ones stayed through sheer apathy. They worked, right? Why worry?

But for months, maybe a couple of years, I've been telling The Man we need a new fridge. Wouldn't it be nice to have one decent sized fridge instead of two old ones? They're not ozone friendly, and we could free up some space, right? Also, things stored on the top shelf would not get icy.

We'd talk about about what size fridge we'd need, the problem of getting the old ones taken away, how much trouble it would be, and how much it would cost, and then we'd end up not doing anything because we couldn't quite agree about what was necessary.

Two days ago, the biggest fridge gave up the ghost.

I said to The Man,

"Can I say, I told you so?"

"Oh, all right," he answered.

"I TOLD YOU SO!" I said.

This did not solve the problem. We still had food warming up in the fridge, not a good situation when the temperature is not likely to get below 26 degrees Celsius for the next few weeks.

So yesterday we went shopping.

We spent so much money I now feel dizzy when I think about it. Then we came home and cleaned out both old fridges, and the floor where they'd been standing. (Does anybody clean under their fridge? We didn't, and I don't want to write about how the floor looked.)

The new fridge was delivered four hours after we chose and paid for it in the shop. It is huge, and wonderful. It purrs instead of buzzing and whining and rattling. It has an ice maker. I have never had a fridge with an ice maker before, and find it all terrifically exciting. I keep waiting for it to go CLUNK! So far it hasn't, although it is making ice. Is it making ice silently, do you think, or is it waiting until we leave the room before going CLUNK? Maybe going CLUNK is a private thing for fridges. Who knows what goes on inside a fridge when you close the doors.

This is turning out to be a very domesticated vacation.