This story right here is what inspired this WHOLE blog. I sent it in an email to my old co workers and they told me to write a book. Well, I already wrote a novel (working on getting it published, not so easy) but a book seemed silly. Now a blog, that made sense.
So the week before we were slated to move into our new home, very unfinished and open at this point, we decided to finish buying the new appliances we needed. MB had purchased a dryer but we were still using the washer at our apartment. The house came with an old but working oven/stove so that was fine. But we still needed a washer and a fridge. I, feeling very mature and special, purchased the washer with some of my tax return. It was my first big girl purchase. I LURV my washer. It matches our LG dryer and they both sing. Makes laundry very entertaining.
This left MB with the fridge. Now at this point we were still harbouring under the delusion that we would attempt the redo on the kitchen this year. MB was INSISTENT upon a stainless steel fridge. I wanted energy star as I pay the electric bill. We looked for a while and found what we thought we wanted at Percy's for under $1,000. I was skeptical but we went to pick up said fridge.
We get to the store and find the SAME fridge (only later I realized much smaller) in the scratch and dent section. It had a dent in the back that no one would ever see but was significantly cheaper. GREAT! The only catch? We had to take it with us that day, as is. OK, MB has a very nice pick up truck, no big deal. So we drive the truck around to back to pick up our new baby. The kid loading it into the truck pushes it in so that the front of the fridge is facing out of the bed of truck, perhaps so it can watch whats going on. How nice of him. MB helps him and begins to strap it in. I ask "Can't you lay it down?" to which I receive dirty looks and MB later explaining to me in his 'patient voice' that you can't lay a fridge down because it ruins the Freon or some other such thing, and it wouldn't work properly. As MB jumps into action strapping the fridge in the helper, noticing his chance to do very little, hops out of the back of the truck and let's MB do it himself. I watched, again skeptical but kept my mouth shut. MB strapped it in using the hooks on the bed of the truck. This didn't seem ideal to me but hey, I don't know much about these things so I kept quite. He put a sweatshirt under the strap so it wouldn't scratch the stainless steel...I now find this a bit funny.
So we leave the parking lot and the fridge seems secure so we go on our merry way, avoiding the highway and going Rt. 9 in Worcester. We make it a little more than half way and all of sudden we hit a TINY bump and I hear a 'thud'. MB pulls over suddenly going "fuck! fuck!" We walk around back to find the strap has slid right down the front of the fridge and the tiny bump caused our nice new undented in the front fridge, to fall face first onto the tailgate of truck. Now in a tiny part of my brain I am laughing at this. But I do not DARE show this outwardly. MB pushes it back and there, right across the front panel of the fridge is a nice large crease where there had been nothing but smoothness before.
MB, needless to say, is BESIDE himself. As he points out, furious with himself, there are many thing that were wrong about this that either of us really should have noticed. One, the fridge should have been put in facing the other way. this way, if for example, it falls over, as it did, it would be the BACK that was damaged, not the front. Also, and this is the biggest thing and MB suddenly sees how to do it correctly immediately following the catastrophe, that the straps should have been secured much high up, therefore cradling the middle of the fridge, not pulled up to meet it. He now straps the fridge in behind the bed of the truck, much more secure but the damage is done.
We get to the house and put it in the garage. MB can barely contain himself. He considered attempting to pop the panel off the door and trying to push the crease out (I put a stop to this as he is attemtping ot pry it off withn his bar hands and I see much more damage occuring). He considers using a suction to pull it out but as it is a crease instead of a dent this doesn't work. We then convince ourselves the crease is really not that bad and we can cover it up. MB keeps saying it just upsets him because it wasn't there before. HE did it. He says this several time.
In fact, he more or less obsesses about the dent in the fridge for the next two days. I, on the other hand, find this all rather amusing and have to fight very hard not to laugh out loud while MB is tearing his hair out upset with himself. This is much like when someone falls down the stairs and its not REALLY funny...but really it is and you laugh your ass off anyways. After a a full two days of listening to him obsess about the fridge I finally told him to shut up and get over it and what's done is done. I was sick of hearing about it. Nothing that could be done now.
A few days later we went to pick up my new washer (in a a nice protective box) and let me tell you, that sucker was VERY securely strapped in and it made it home perfectly unharmed.
The funny thing is, this fridge has been in our house for about 3 months now and i don't even notice the crease anymore. Just don't bring it up to MB....it's still a sensitive subject with him.
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