When we bought the New House, all of the appliances except the furnace were at least ten years old. We prepared ourselves to buy on or about one appliance a year for the next five to eight years.
“But we’ll ride the gravy train for now,” we decided. We would coast on the gravy of the existing appliances until they died, scraping the last bit of usefulness out of each and every one of them.
When we’d been in the house three weeks the fridge died. Dead. Gone. All over. It was cranked at full capacity and running practically all day and night to maintain itself and Scott figured if he cleaned out the dust around the motors, it wouldn’t have to run as hard. So, he cleaned out the dust and it promptly stopped working. Murdered by lack of dust.
After two trips to Sears and one to Best Buy and two to Lowes just be SURE WE WERE GETTING A GOOD DEAL, we bought a Consumer’s Report recommended jobbie that had a water dispenser not in the door but inside the door (you open the door, there’s the dispenser).
Now I know how the other half lives. To me, having water in your refrigerator door – inside or out – is definitely a sign that YOU HAVE ARRIVED. From this moment on I shall be able to engage with my world from a new social standing. The standing of those who have ice makers and water dispensers in their refrigerators.
But there is one thing I don’t understand: if ONE: Having a water dispenser means you are better than human beings who do not have one and TWO: People who have water dispensers are therefore part of the “Better Half” and THREE: the “Better Half” generally runs things and FOUR: the “Better Half” spends a long time standing in front of their refrigerators waiting for painfully slow water dispensers to get them a glass of water, then WHY haven’t they learned a Zen-like patience that they can translate into their work at the White House and across the major business establishments of this nation?
They’ve had water dispensers for years and I see NO EVIDENCE that they have translated the Zen-like patience one learns from waiting on a water dispenser into running the politics and economy of this nation.
I fear there is something in my premises that needs to be revisited.
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