The deed is done…. my beautiful yellow and red fridge/freezer has been put out to pasture. Where it once stood comforting and familiar is a new shiny replacement… looking awkward and sheepish.
But like the strange beast it had become it didn’t go without a scene… as the delivery men carted the doomed appliance away … I was shocked and appalled to discover a whole cat underneath the place where it had stood…. when I say a whole cat it was a hairy cat without the cat! I know I’m not a cleaning goddess but I sure did move it from side to side to sweep out under it when washing the kitchen floor… but I realised as one of the men stumbled to avoid the newly released cat that ’side-to-side’ is not enough…. I blushed as they spirited away my old friend. Then ran for the dustpan and brush before they could get back into the house in the vain hope that they might really believe it was indeed a cat that had now scampered off to do some ‘hunting and fishing’ as cats often do.
Once the hubbub was over, I surveyed my kitchen… it felt strange. Like having a big (new) white elephant in the room overshadowing everything else… I’m sure we’ll rub along nicely until the newness wears off, the smell of packaging disappears and the top has a fluffy dust cover…. but for now placing items in it seemed odd and evoked thoughts of ‘there’s no room’ and ‘I’m sure my old fridge was bigger’…. I know I know…. up until recently I had only half a freezer because the other half was frozen solid so the freezer is massive by comparison and the fridge altho’ smaller is happy to chill, and only chill food. How come I don’t feel over joyed?
I’m going to read my owners manual on how to make friends with your new goods and find out what all the random extra ‘bits n bobs’ are for and to help me decide if I should keep them or not… at least I’ll be distracted me from my crime of killing off a perfectly good (albeit identity confused) fridge/freezer!
But like the strange beast it had become it didn’t go without a scene… as the delivery men carted the doomed appliance away … I was shocked and appalled to discover a whole cat underneath the place where it had stood…. when I say a whole cat it was a hairy cat without the cat! I know I’m not a cleaning goddess but I sure did move it from side to side to sweep out under it when washing the kitchen floor… but I realised as one of the men stumbled to avoid the newly released cat that ’side-to-side’ is not enough…. I blushed as they spirited away my old friend. Then ran for the dustpan and brush before they could get back into the house in the vain hope that they might really believe it was indeed a cat that had now scampered off to do some ‘hunting and fishing’ as cats often do.
Once the hubbub was over, I surveyed my kitchen… it felt strange. Like having a big (new) white elephant in the room overshadowing everything else… I’m sure we’ll rub along nicely until the newness wears off, the smell of packaging disappears and the top has a fluffy dust cover…. but for now placing items in it seemed odd and evoked thoughts of ‘there’s no room’ and ‘I’m sure my old fridge was bigger’…. I know I know…. up until recently I had only half a freezer because the other half was frozen solid so the freezer is massive by comparison and the fridge altho’ smaller is happy to chill, and only chill food. How come I don’t feel over joyed?
I’m going to read my owners manual on how to make friends with your new goods and find out what all the random extra ‘bits n bobs’ are for and to help me decide if I should keep them or not… at least I’ll be distracted me from my crime of killing off a perfectly good (albeit identity confused) fridge/freezer!
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