Technology!
Behold the automatic refrigerator. As you can see, it makes an excellent object to stand in the corner of the kitchen, and, because it is metal-sheathed, it is just the thing for covering with pictures and little bear-prompted mysterious things.
But it’s not quite perfect. It does the job of holding pictures off the floor very well, and that corner of the kitchen just wouldn’t be the same if it didn’t have a large white humming box sitting there, but I have been informed that one of the primary jobs of a refrigerator is to keep food cool (and/or frozen, depending on which of the little shelves you place the offending pieces of food into) enough so it doesn’t immediately spoil and send you and your family to the hospital with many new and interesting types of food poisoning. And the one little flaw in our refrigerator is that it, um, doesn’t actually keep food cool (unless you consider having the freezer compartment go down to a whopping 60°F to be “cool”) but instead has embarked on a sort of performance art piece involving spoiling every spoilable bit of food we foolishly placed into it.
I have some unpleasant words to say about this, but it will have to wait until I bundle up my entire science fiction book collection and trot it down to Powells to see if they’d be interested in helping me with my “needs a new fridge” fund drive.
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Sorry to hear about the fridge. Is it a rule of life that ‘everything that can go wrong will?’