Get Whitey
Two years ago, Pointy Shoes & Broken Thumbs moved into a house without a refrigerator. As usual, the budget was minuscule at best so they were forced to hit up the Craigslist. A week of eating tacos went by before they found this Amana refrigerator for $50.
When Pointy Shoes & Broken Thumbs moved into the current house, the Amana refrigerator came along with them since one was not provided with their new house. After 2 years, Pointy Shoes & Broken Thumbs noticed that the refrigerator was starting to get warmer despite increasing the coldness setting beyond its maximum dial position. (Thank you trusty refrigerator thermometer) Pointy Shoes thought it was strange at first but chalked it up to the 190 degree weather that day. A couple weeks passed and the temperature seemed to rise even tfurther and the freezer would alternate from a blast freezer, quickly making sorbet in 30 minutes, to a swamp cooler, dripping water all over the fridge section below and onto the kitchen floor.
When the meats started spoiling in 2 days, Pointy Shoes & Broken Thumbs decided that something needed to be done.
Pointy Shoes & Broken Thumbs scoured every appliance store in the area looking for a bottom freezer, non-French door refrigerator in white or stainless and happily they were able to find the perfect one at the same local appliance discounter they found their stove. It was a Samsung Energy Star with LEDs, counter depth, bottom freezer, drawer pull out. Luckily, Broken Thumbs’ loving and caring grandmother offered to buy an appliance for them – big thank you to Grandma A & Grandpa R – since Broken Thumb’s didn’t have the money socked away to replace a fridge at that given point in time. Broken Thumbs was told that it would be delivered in 2-3 weeks.
A week of tacos went by, and the fridge was on track for delivery. Another week of tacos go by, and the word was still all systems go, however on the 3rd week, when the fridge was scheduled to arrive, Broken Thumbs called for a third time to inquire when they might expect to have their food stored at a FDA safe 40 degrees.
He was told it would be an additional month wait, April 13. Pointy Shoes & Broken Thumbs were saddened. Not only were they unable to buy many groceries, they would have to wait TWO months for their new appliance and quite frankly even they get sick of tacos eventually.
Trying to keep their faith unshaken, April 13th came and went before Broken Thumbs called Pacific Sales again. It turns out that the manufacturer had a delay in production and it would be a miracle if a refrigerator was delivered in the next two weeks. The truth finally comes out.
At this point, Pointy Shoes & Broken Thumbs were tired of broken promises, spoiled meat, waiting for the delivery and tired of eating tacos every night, so after an evening of discrete internet research, Broken Thumbs took the plunge and ordered another refrigerator online. The online store sent the Samsung to the shipper the next day, where it sat for 4 days while it had paperwork made up. The cross-country journey took about a week.
April 28th was the day Pointy Shoes & Broken Thumbs would finally be blessed with a new cheesebox. The night before the 28th, Pointy Shoes & Broken Thumbs went to bed early to expect their new friend waiting on the doorstep, however on the morning of April 28, no delivery truck was waiting outside. After brushing her teeth, Pointy Shoes wandered over to the living room where she found the dreaded red blinking button on the answering machine. The delivery guys had just showed up at the house unannounced and unscheduled at 8 am.
Upon Google searching the delivery company, Pointy Shoes & Broken Thumbs started to feel depressed as they learned of the delivery company’s bad track record, especially when the delivery was missed and quickly got on the phone to reschedule. Not only did the delivery company forget to notify us of a 4 hour delivery window, they estimated that they were unable to deliver for another week due to our far location. Pointy Shoes & Broken Thumbs were starting to lose all hope.
Thankfully, a few hours later, someone at the the shipping company called back and said they would take it upon themselves to do a special delivery the next day and although we were charged an extra $20 to walk up a flight of stairs, the delivery man (please note SINGULAR) came and dropped off the fridge with a little help from Broken Thumbs. After waiting for 2.5 months for this moment, Pointy Shoes & Broken Thumbs breathed a sigh of relief now that this unbelievable fiasco was over.
They could store food and cook at home once again.
