IN ARIZONA YOU HAVE TO HAVE ICE

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

When I was a kid growing up in Oklahoma we had an ice box--not a refrigerator, an ice box.

We bought a block of ice, put it in the top of the ice box and it was suppose to keep the things in the box cool. When the ice melted the water ran into a pan under the box. If you forgot to "watch" it, the water ran over on the floor. What a mess.

None of that today. We just push a glass against a gadget on the front of the refrigerator and out comes a glass full of ice. Or that's the way it's suppose to work and does most of the time.

Well, ours stopped working as it should. For some reason it got "mad" and ran water all over the place. The man came, put a new water valve on and called it "fixed." Evidently it was in a "pouting" stage and he said it would be twenty-four hours before it made ice again. He was right. It finally started making ice.

And then--it got "mad" again and water ran all in the refrigerator, out onto the kitchen floor and into the food pantry. He came back. He said, "This is your lucky day. Today you get a new ice maker, free of charge." I asked, "Are you fairly sure this will fix the problem?" He said, "I am completely sure!" But I already knew that since the refrigerator was "pouting" that it would be twenty-four hours before we would see any ice.

Well, it's been almost forty-eight hours and there is no ice, no water running into the ice maker to make ice---and no repair man in sight!

It's almost noon. I'm sitting here waiting. You say," What's the big deal? There are suffering people in the world who don't even know what ice is and they don't even have drinking water."
I know. I know. That's why I feel so ashamed. And if we don't get this thing fixed by June or July, and it looks like we may not, I would settle for the old ice box and a block of ice.

Did you ever have an ice box that you bought ice for? Do you still have it? May I borrow it?