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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madmiko May 12 2009, 01:23:53 UTC

#1 Broken chest freezer ruining meat and other goodies sucks.
#2 Refrigerator having gone on the fritz earlier Sucks!
#3 Strangers trying to be helpful and ruining the rest of the stuff you rescued, plus leaving out stuff you prefer refrigeratored SUCKS!!

Any one of the above would be enough to put me in a bad mood for days. Any combination of the above would have everyone around me tiptoeing for a week. All 3? Run! Someone should write a book: "When Major Appliances Go Bad." Preferably, it would direct you to someone who is in need of being strangled, like a list of Fortune 500 CEOs and politicians.

drjmaxwell May 12 2009, 02:44:58 UTC

I'm disappointed I lost the chest freezer. Nothing else is too horrible, I guess. I mean, I'm out some frozen meat...but I guess it's an excuse to buy fresh stuff.

And I don't have to move all that to Houston.

madmiko May 12 2009, 08:16:21 UTC

Oh, to be a young, single, childless guy, able to shrug his shoulders at a $100 loss of meat, plus the freezer itself. Hehheh! But you have a very good point about not having to move all that to Houston. I'm glad you managed to find a "good side" to the situation. ^_^

drjmaxwell May 12 2009, 14:00:57 UTC

Not a shrug so much as a slump of resignation. I'll have to be a little more frugal to stay within my grocery budget for the next few months, and I'll have to put off buying a new computer or furniture for 6-8 weeks as I use my 'capital expenses' budget to replace the freezer.

Still, capital depreciates. I guess I can't be shocked or angry about it.

priestess_skye May 12 2009, 02:07:03 UTC

you pissed off the refridgerator gods somewhere.

Personally, if I saw a freezer full of food, an EMPTY chest freezer that my guess is probably not cold, I'd be thinking something's wrong with the freezer.

But then I have a brain.

as for the deli meat I'm sure that he thought a little extra bacteria would make it taste that much better. mmmm yeasty!

drjmaxwell May 12 2009, 02:44:03 UTC

Those were my thoughts exactly .

I cut the shit out of my hand while heaving it into the dumpster, too. Bad mood.

rya_kelley May 12 2009, 10:35:30 UTC

*tries to stifle giggles*

drjmaxwell May 12 2009, 13:55:48 UTC

Why stifle them? I don't post this crap so everyone can go, "Oh, those horrible repairmen. There, there!"

Might as well treat it as a really expensive joke.

rya_kelley May 12 2009, 15:54:48 UTC

I would, but the housewife in me is screaming, "Those bastards ruined that food! Do they have any idea how expensive meat is?!?!?" And i don't want her to start yelling at me. She's naggy.

caitriona695 May 13 2009, 00:32:01 UTC

Oh, those horrible repairmen. There, there!

But really. I can't believe that anyone with even 1/2 a brain cell would put obviously frozen stuff in an obviously non-frozen freezer. I think I might have hunted them down and beaten them to death with a haddock. (if I had one)

Just remember...red meat isn't bad for you - green fuzzy meat is bad for you.