Why do service techs always move the seat in the car they’re only going to drive fifty yards to the service bay?
At least I could reach the pedals this time.
Exactly the same here! Fortunately, after enormous grunting and groaning and then finally with the aid of needle-nose pliers, I think I got all the plastic off.
You’re right, @Atamasama , a new fridge really is a big fucking deal, because it’s the center of your food supply. I threw out a lot of stuff that maybe I shouldn’t have, but the old fridge (and, again, thank you LG, you fucking cheap Korean fucker makers of bad appliances) couldn’t be trusted. Stuff in the freezer was no longer frozen, and stuff in the fridge section was suspect, so out it all went,
After giving the fridge time to cool down, it has now been endowed with ice cube trays and a can of Caesar mix to chill, for a lovely drink later tonight! 
Now that’s a proper wolfpup celebration if I’ve ever heard one.
I’m a wee bit jealous. I have an old, cranky fridge, and I would love to be unwrapping a shiny new one, with a roomy freezer and an ice dispenser that makes spherical ice.
In followup to my refrigerator rant, I’m going grocery shopping tomorrow and my grocery list is the shortest ever. It simply reads:
- Everything!
They usually come with reversible doors. My friend had been squeezing between the wall and the fridge doors for years until I showed her how to switch them.
I’m also jealous! A nice, CLEAN new fridge to load up!
Don’t forget the ice cream!
Ice cream sandwiches, for sure! Actually, my much-loved ice cream sandwiches were the first clue that something was wrong with old fridge. They were no longer firm and eventually just started to disintegate. Definitely getting a new pack of them and, why not, a carton of Haagen Dazs vanilla!
That’s how you know you need to eat them faster. I’ve never had an ice cream sandwich last for more than two days at my house.
On the rare occasion that I get a survey about my dealership service department experience, there’s always an entire section about the condition of my vehicle after service, including the position of the seat. I wonder if some of the newer techs were trained on cars that have programmable personal settings, and they think any adjustments they make can be undone by the car’s owner with the press of a button. (None of my vehicles have that feature.) I’ve gotten to the point that I’m happy if they leave it reasonably clean.
As short as I am, a lot of men would have trouble scrunching into the driver’s seat in my car if they leave it at my settings. I consider them moving the seat totally understandable.
No, you got it all wrong; that is the perfect night to do it.
- Don’t recognize the people walking around your neighborhood that night? Well, they’re just from another street/neighborhood going for extra candy
- Someone walking around wearing a mask so you can’t see their face? Totally appropriate on Halloween.
- IOW, no one looks out of place that night to raise any suspicions; even the guy carrying a crowbar, if he’s got the right ‘killer’ costume on.
I still need to do something about a new fridge. Don’t know if I want to get a really nice, expensive one & relegate the current kitchen fridge to the basement, just get a regular fridge, or even just a cheapie one. Haven’t even had time to think about it, much less go looking.
Today was a day of wasted driving!
This morning was 125 miles round trip for a class that was cxl’d / postponed but I didn’t find out about until I got there & there was no one else there. Since it was for the fire co, I was in a FD vehicle, which means I had to drive home & park it. Then I took my own car back, most of the way there & then up to a brewpub trying to get cans for my friend who I will see next week. All three locations were out cans of that beer; they had it on tap, but 1) no name of the beer is visible when it comes from a tap & 2) a growler wouldn’t keep well until Friday. I also got hurt when I didn’t see a rope while going towards the West late in the day as the very bright, low sun totally obliterated it.
* They don’t have phone #s listed on their website to call them & the one location doesn’t even have a phone. To be clear, I would have gone for a drive because it was sunny & 80°, I just wouldn’t have triangled up there if I knew they didn’t have any cans.
As a man of relatively normal stature, who sometimes shares a car with @Seanette, I can confirm this, that if the driver’s seat is adjusted for her, I cannot get into it at all; I simply do not fit.
Nothing you said addresses anything I said. Your points only make sense until someone forces their way into the house. At that point they’re going to draw attention immediately. And that was my entire point.
Before I made my post I checked to see if there were any examples of home invasions by trick-or-treaters (especially adults using little kids as a cover) and couldn’t find anything. Just a couple of examples of empty houses being burglarized as the occupants went trick-or-treating and leaving easy targets behind.
I am delighted by my new one, and by the fact that the price at my local Home Depot was $100 less than the online price. All I really want in a fridge other than decent capacity is just the goddam ability to keep things cold. Checking it out this afternoon, roughly 24 hours after first plug-in, I had the temperature control in the main compartment set just a smidgeon more than the mid-point “recommended” setting (I like my fridge COLD!), and my thermometer inside read just a smidgeon more than 0°C – perfect!
This new one (a Frigidaire) has most of the same compartments as the piece of shit LG, but I love the fact that the “meat keeper” tray (mostly for prepared processed meats and many other similar items) is shallow but runs the entire width of the fridge, which is very convenient. Also love the bright LED lighting. The all-glass and clear plastic construction makes it very easy to see where everything is.
I have a very mini rant… Imgur is no longer available in the UK so now I can’t see pics of everyone’s pets, new fridges, Hallowe’en dog outfits etc. All because over here, we are rightly concerned about age checks and the use of children’s personal data.
On the subject of new refrigerators, we’ve been planning to redo the kitchen with money my wife got from the sale of her parents’ house. Which will include a new fridge to replace our 20+ year old fridge (which is still running fine but doesn’t match the other appliances we’ve replaced over the years – so it will probably go in the garage or basement as a beer fridge).
The mini rant part is that we have been waiting for oldest daughter, who has been living with us more than a year, to GTFO first. Which likely isn’t going to happen until January-ish.
I learned the hard way that that setting produces a zone of sub-freezing temps inside the fridge within about 12" of the cold air inlet. Fortunately what froze was just pure but fizzy water. Unfortunately, it was fizzy water in glass bottles. Plural.
The typical design of a fridge+freezer has the compressor put out enough cold (yeah, I know, physics) to keep the freezer at the chosen temp. The fridge temp control actually controls an air damper that meters freezer air (at freezer temps) into the fridge. It’s not directly trying to maintain a specific fridge temp; any given setting on the fridge temp knob is just some particular fixed damper position.
Modern fridges may have gotten smarter than that. But up until recently they were all just as I described.
First, i don’t plan on stealing at all. Second, IF i was going to, I’d rather do a burglary than an armed robbery because less jail time if i somehow manage to get caught.
For sake of argument, I walk up to your house on Halloween night, in costume / mask, & with a gun. Maybe I’m dressed as the Lone Ranger with a simple face mask & my gun obvious on my hip, or maybe I have it concealed from everyone else under my cape. Either way, you open the door, i pull it out & say, “Shut up or Sayanora”, take you inside, tie you up to a chair & then rummage thru your stuff until I find the valuables, maybe even stopping to answer the door & give out candy. Then, at 8pm when trick-or-treating winds down I leave with the goods, leaving you still tied to the chair.
Attention won’t be focused until someone comes to check on you, maybe the next day when you don’t show up for work.
More movie plot than reality? Possibly, but that’s how I’d do it.
When my old fridge was working properly, I had it set a notch colder than “normal” and this was sorta kinda what happened to items that were in the back of the top shelf, near the cold air outlets. Stuff usually didn’t actually freeze, but if it was back there many days items like fresh prepared meals would start to develop ice crystals. For me, totally paranoid about food spoilage, that was a feature, not a bug – I figured if stuff was left lying around for many days, I’d rather it start to freeze than start to spoil. I don’t yet know how the new fridge will behave in that respect.
But I’m loving the new fridge. In my usual paranoia, I worried that it would mistakenly come in white instead of stainless steel, or that the (reversible) door would open on the wrong side, but all was well.
Then I got myself all worked up when I checked out the delivery company that Home Depot outsources to. Just about every review was one-star, describing the horrors of the delivery experience, with one commenter writing that the the refrigerator delivery was just left out on the driveway. But my experience was fine. Sure, the claimed “white glove delivery experts” didn’t have white gloves and were actually Jamaican rasta men with dreadlocks, but I’ve been OK with Jamaican rasta men ever since a trip to Jamaica where similar types supplied us with some very fine ganga. In any case, they did what they were supposed to do and I have no complaints.
ETA: This fridge, unlike some other ones, has a temperature control for the freezer as well as the main compartment, so there are multiple things to fiddle with. I have the freezer setting at the “recommended” midpoint, and the main fridge setting a smidgeon colder than “recommended”.