September 16, 2009
A Sarajevo Story 3
It is terrible thing to get settled into your new apartment having bought all kinds of groceries, and then find out that your refrigerator is no longer frigid. This is what happened to us this week.
We came back to our apartment a couple of days ago and Jess discovered that our refrigerated products were not as cold as before. Also, the light was no longer coming on inside the door. So, we told our team leader and he said that we would call our landlord the next day. In the meantime, we put all of the products that could spoil into the freezer overnight. Yeah, that’s right…the freezer was still working.
Yesterday, after several phone calls (it always takes more than one), our team leader was able to make a plan with our landlord. He called an appliance store to send a serviceman. The bad news was that they wouldn’t make it until at least a couple of days later. So, Jess made cauliflower and rice to go with our leftover chicken…dinner of champions (we had to make use of the food that did not have much longer to live).
Okay…before we tell you the rest of the story, let us rest our case. We may not be super handyman and handywoman, but we knew a couple of things to try. We had pulled the fridge out, taken the plug out and put it back in. We had turned the dial on the inside and underneath. So, please give us a break…we made a couple of attempts of troubleshooting. Now, we can finish the story.
When Jess put dinner on the table, Billy was finishing a conversation with someone on facebook, and she had to sit and wait a little bit. As she was waiting, she looked over at the stove and had a revelation! A miracle had happened (or not). The stove had worked without being plugged in! She ran over and turned the oven dial! The light came on! It was a Sarajevo miracle!!! Or, the plug that we thought was for the oven was in fact for our beloved refrigerator.
The only plug in our kitchen has a place for only one plug. So, when we wanted to use the electric tea kettle we have, we would unplug the oven (we thought) and plug it in. Well, we got a microwave and got a y-plug so we could plug in more than one thing. However, we figured that we did not need the oven for a little while, so we unplugged it (we thought). When we had checked the plug behind the refrigerator and saw that it was fine, we left it at that.
What American would have thought that the freezer AND the refrigerator had separate plugs?! It is one unit. Sure, it’s easy for you to think that you would have thought of that, but you never know. Haha. We hope that this Sarajevo Story gave you a smile and a laugh today.
The Lord had in fact provided for us in the situation. We found this out in time to call our team leader so he could stop the serviceman from coming. How terrible it would have been to have our landlord get the bill from the serviceman and find out that he only had to plug the refrigerator in? Praise the Lord!
The moral of the story: Good things come to those who wait. Just think, Jess…if I wasn’t keeping you waiting like I do so often, you would have never made the discovery. Just kidding (I had to put this in).
Ćao!
