Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him

[dreamshark]

Preferably someone more like a refrigerator repair person, actually. The fridge is only 5 years old, which is infuriating and pretty much convinces me never to buy another GE appliance, but since it's pretty much a new fridge the question of whether to repair or replace clearly comes down to repair.

So all I have to do is call a repair service and hope they show up, right? I even found a local applicance repair service (Appliance Express) that offers same day service. Specifically, their site says: "Appliance Express provides dependable, same day service throughout the Twin Cities Area. Talk to our live friendly operators and experience our knowledgable, courteous service technicians." That sounds good. So I called this morning at about 11am. The "live friendly operator" turned out to be a recording. I left my name and number and waited for a callback. It is now 3pm and still no callback. Great. I wonder if there is even anybody in their office this week.

Okay, Plan B. Since it's a GE refrigerator I went to the GE Repair Service site. I had to work my way through an online repair scheduling form to get to the information that the next available service date is Friday afternoon. Since I'm beginning to doubt that Appliance Express is even picking up their phones, I went ahead and scheduled a repair date with GE. If Appliance Express calls back first and offers to get here quicker I should be able to cancel the GE call.

This is not shaping up well.

Not only that, my plugged up ear feels worse today than it did yesterday and I'm beginning to think I may have to go to the doctor. Another scheduling nightmare, I'm sure. They are probably short-staffed this time of year like everybody else. I think I'd better call them, though. It's about time for the ear infection that pops up every 3 or 4 years. I'm getting tired of not being able to hear out of my left ear. *sigh*

Comments

[wombat-socho.livejournal.com]

Extra points to you for the Firesign Theater reference while coping with domestic appliance failure. Again. :/

[mle292.livejournal.com]

Here's my theory - The refrigerator committed suicide because it felt inadequate next to the shiny new stove.

If you end up needing a new fridge, try to keep it out of sight from the other appliances.

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'll keep it in mind. ;-)

On a topic which is only just slightly related... are you the person who is nuts about glass frying pans? While we were cleaning up the corner of the kitchen next to the stove we unearthed one of those in the heap of cookware that hadn't been used for so long we forgot we had it. It's big (10 inches?), doesn't hang up, doesn't fit anywhere and nobody here really likes it. Would you like to have it?

Or am I remembering backwards - you liked the Pyrex saucepans but hated the frying pans? Let me know.

[mle292.livejournal.com]

The second one. The frying pans are just terrible, perhaps best used as doorstops. The glass saucepans are absolutely, completely great because the glass is very heat resistant and holds the heat inside. Things that boil are perfect inside the pyrex pans.

Frying pan stuff gets flipped over onto a cool side, or stirred and exposed to air. The food just cools the pan off too quickly and it never gets hot enough. Cast iron stays hot, even if you put ice cubes on it.

I never had good hashbrowns outside of a restaurant until I got a cast iron frying pan.

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

We usually use cast iron frying pans. I just thought the glass one looked neat and wondered if it would be good for something that the iron ones didn't do as well. I haven't been impressed with it, however. We'll probably just get rid of it.