Comments | drjmaxwell: You can't make this stuff up

drjmaxwell

You can't make this stuff up

May 11, 2009 17:36

Yesterday: I open up my chest freezer. It has broken. STuff on the top has melted, there's water in the bottom. I toss about $100 worth of meat, set some out to cook, and cram my refrigerator's freezer to capacity ( Read more... )

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alterfano May 11 2009, 21:46:57 UTC

sounds to me like God wants you to become a vegetarian...

or some little sprite was saving your ass from a salmonella cell in there... somewhere...

drjmaxwell May 12 2009, 02:48:03 UTC

I slashed the hell out of my hand throwing it into the dumpster after getting raw-chicken meltwater all over myself, so we'll see about that.

ouatic_7 May 11 2009, 22:33:35 UTC

Deli meats are cured?

Of course, we keep ours in the fridge and who knows what they put in in its place.

drjmaxwell May 12 2009, 02:47:26 UTC

They put all my cheese in the fruit drawer, all the fruit on the top shelf, and decided to refrigerate a jar of Prego that was just sitting on the counter.

fenikkusuken May 11 2009, 23:11:53 UTC

Can't blame 'em, really... they obviously thought they were doing their Boy Scout good deed for the day by making your new fridge work more efficiently.

Besides, I'll bet you didn't put a big note on the chest freezer saying it was 'Out of Order', did you?

drjmaxwell May 12 2009, 02:46:49 UTC

When they opened the freezer and saw the pool of water at the bottom and a lack of cool air, they might have figured it out.

They just didn't want to repack the small freezer.

fenikkusuken May 12 2009, 05:11:38 UTC

If they were repairmen of the male gender, no, they wouldn't have noticed.

*dodges a semi-frozen 10lb bag of hamburger*

drjmaxwell May 12 2009, 14:02:00 UTC

So in other words, I needed a sign on the freezer, because 100% of the people in the world capable of fixing a refrigerator wouldn't have noticed?

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drjmaxwell May 12 2009, 02:46:07 UTC

Some mouth-breathing troglodyte certainly did.

emrlddragon May 12 2009, 00:58:12 UTC

That's not so bad. Our garage freezer/refrigerator died and it took us almost a week to notice. We had fish and venison in there. Even after we cleaned it out and bleached it, it still smelled.

Then we set it out on large item pick up day, and 10 minutes later some guy drove by a took it.

drjmaxwell May 12 2009, 02:45:44 UTC

Yeah. Fortunately I think I caught it inside of 48 hours. I just tossed it in the dumpster (slashing my hand in the process). It'll be a bitch for someone to get out, but I'm curious if anyone will try.