Finally! Well, we just thought FINALLY!

We have been without a refrigerator for just about a week now. Not too bad, not loving it either.

Yesterday the place called me, let me know that the part is on the truck and will be here sometime in the afternoon. Now, the repair man was supposed to be out in the morning, but because of the slowness of service, it would be later in the afternoon or Tuesday. Well, since I don't have a part, I can't get anything fixed.

On my way to the store, which is everyday right now, I get a call from the repair man.
"This is Adam from A and E. Did your part arrive?"
"Nope."
"Please tell me you are lying."
"Nope, from what I understand it is on the truck to be delivered today."
"Well, I guess we can get out there tomorrow"
"I have no other option right now, that will work."

I honestly thought that they would have shipped it overnight. But they didn't, no big deal, another day is another day.

Late yesterday afternoon I get the package. The box was all caved it, the tape was barely holding anything together. Now, this is a $900 part, you would think that they could ship it better. I decided to call him, let him know that the part was here and wait. I got an automated call that he would be at the house between 8-5. Great, another day where I wait for a repair man, with his buttcrack hanging out while he fixes my refrigerator.

Ok, so this morning I was up early. Make sure PJ got to school, made coffee and waited on Chuck to get home from doing paperwork. I get this call from the repairman, he is about to pull in the driveway to start working. Chuck is home, I am still in nightshirt, needed to get into the shower.

I come out, Chuck is somewhere by this point, sit down, drink another cup of coffee, and look up to see Adam holding my new part. " It is up to you, I can use this if you want to." This $900 part that was shipped in a box that wasn't meant for shipping, was bent and bowed up. Why waste his time to put that in? So, of course, since it is only guarenteed for 90 days, don't put it in.

He goes to the van, turns out that their warehouse sent it like that, orders another part, and proceeds to order another one after that. It won't be here until tomorrow at the earliest. If it gets here tomorrow, he will be here at 8 on Thursday morning to fix it. Now, this is a 2 hour job, I have to be at work at 11, so he needs to be done before then. But then he told us that they are licensed and bonded, and that he can lock up when he is done. I am not comfortable leaving some repair person here alone, but if anything is missing, I know where to turn.

Here I am, Tuesday afternoon, no refrigerator, living out of 2 coolers, and sitting on the computer. I am not happy right now, thankfully Chuck's work has an ice machine, we have used a lot of it the past few days. The boys aren't happy about all of this, and they don't know anything about what happened today. Lunches for them has been PB and J or something that won't spoil. They have to make them before they go to school, so they are up earlier for that. Granted we have a ton of stuff that I have canned, and it isn't too bad. Dinners are things that won't have any leftovers. I was looking forward to stuffed shells, that is not happening any time soon. But this is getting old, very fast!

Maybe, just maybe, we will have a refrigerator that works by Friday. Oh well, at least we have the coolers and the freezer which has come in handy. I will keep you updated on this ordeal!

"As the refrigerator dies" part 2

I swear this thing is driving me nuts. And I am about on complete edge with the refrigerator that we bought last year.

I got home from shopping with my dad today around 10:30, got everything unloaded and patiently waited for the repair man to show up between 1 and 5. I told my dad, "watch he show up at 5." I was so right.

I got dinner made, more on that yummy meal in another blog. And the repair truck pulls up in the driveway. Ok, I have plenty of food, he was just in time for dinner.

He checks the upper part, then to the freezer. He takes it all apart and while eating dinner we can hear the ice crash to the bottom of the freezer. Not good, not good at all.

Now, if you remember from the earlier post, I mentioned that last year, right after we got it, we had to call for repair because of the fact it wasn't cooling right. Ok, he comes out and thaws out what he needs to do and leaves. This guy comes in tonight, tells us that there is good news and bad news. Let's get it over with, the bad news first..... we will be without a refrigerator until next Tuesday morning. Apparently there is a part that is notorious for going bad and freezing up like it did on this one. UPS will deliver the part right to the house and then Monday he will be back out to fix it. The good news, it is all being paid for by Maytag. It is a $900 part, not counting the 2 hour labor. We paid $900 for this thing last year. The repair man from MIKE'S MAYTAG, didn't bother to look at that part, he just thawed it out and left.

So, now what? We cleaned out the refrigerator, emptied containers that had some leftovers in them, threw away some things that we didn't really need or things that weren't being touched.

In one cooler we have milk, surrounded by ice, along with all the jellies, jams, cream cheeses, lunch meats, bacon, and apple butter. In the other, eggs, and some leftovers from dinner tonight.

The repair man told us that this has all new parts in it. I am ok with that, but we went in there buying a refrigerator that we thought was brand new, no parts replaced, never been used. We were wrong, they hoodwinked us. Suckered us, or whatever else you want to call it. I thought about going down there tomorrow and giving them a piece of my mind, but that will get me arrested.

So, tune in again tomorrow, same place, same channel, same stupid refrigerator.