ford = fuckin’ old refrigerator’s dead

and now gone…

…which feels odd. and looks odd in my garage.

ah, the beer fridge. every guy wants one. i had a plan for mine about eight years ago that, like many a project around this place, never seemed like it was going to happen. and now it can’t – at least not the ORIGINAL plan.

i don’t know the exact year of this fridge, and i know it’s had it’s own bit in the past, i just don’t know if it was the past that fatcow wiped out, so i’ll give a brief history. it died in 2005 or so, and i know i paid too much for it’s replacement as it came from a “rent-to-own” place, although i paid it off WAAAAAAAAAAY ahead of schedule so i might have done okay.

it was a ford fridge (no bullshit – as in the same people that made kramer’s last truck) and it went out to cali with my folks after they were married (1963) when dad went off to vietnam (1965?) and there we were. so i know it was around longer than me and used to, around nine or so every night, make this odd noise that Mom would tell visitors, “we like that noise – it lets us know the fridge still works”. in my lifetime i never remember it breaking OR needing service of any kind, but then around 2005 or so i noticed shit wasn’t as cold as it had been and then ice started to built and so it was moved out to carport and the new one was moved in.

and there it sat. until yesterday.

it basically had become a glorified shelf. nothing was stored IN it. but ON it sat several layers of tools and car fluids and, to my surprise, a bird’s nest that was still occupied (i’m hoping the mom will still take care of the little fuckers even though i relocated her nest a bit lower, but was careful not to touch it OR it’s occupants). i had looked at it earlier that morning when i took trash out and thought, “you just need to find out when bulk trash day is for your neighborhood and get rid of that thing – it’s blocking the ufc’s space in the garage pretty good”. within the hour a scrap collector asked if they could have it, and within twenty minutes it was gone.

but now i need a beer fridge.

i have a two prong attack plan on that one (i’d call it a “sneak attack” but i know the ufc reads this site):

1. the ufc has a rather large fridge that she had in her old house that didn’t need to go to her current apartment as it had a fridge, so we could put that in the utility room if it fits – up side? the booze fridge will be in the house, not the garage, so on cold days when i need a drink i don’t have to brave the cold (or the 100+ heat of summer) just to get my drink on…

…but, if it doesn’t fit the somewhat limited area of the utility room (and i got that idea from shane’s former place in mcqueeny):

2. we sell that bad bitch (the fridge, not the ufc – she’s a keeper!) and use part of the money (i’d hope we’d get more than three bills) to buy this for the office:

Marshall-amplifier-fridge-international-shipping

yeah, that might need to happen…

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