My apartment had one in it, but evidently it was a leftover from an eviction. When I picked up the keys and went to look at it, I found that I needed to procure a large box to chill my leftovers. My plan was to move, go to Best Buy tomorrow, take out a line of credit, and get appliances - I have no washer and dryer, either, and being in a duplex it’s buy your own or head to the corner laundromat.
Today was moving day. We packed the uhaul, two friends and I, and it all fit with room to spare. We went to lunch at Whole Foods, being at a loss for which restaurant to hit, and decided the food bar was a good bet. Something for everyone. We were just sitting down at a table when someone walked up and hailed my roommate. Lo and behold, it was a friend/co-worker he hadn’t seen in years. She sat down with her box lunch and we chatted, and when I identified myself as moving and not looking forward to spending a thousand bucks on appliances. She said she was in Fresno to clean up the house there, she’d moved to another town to be closer to work and was trying to sell it, and there was a fridge in her garage that needed a gasket on the freezer door but was in otherwise good condition. It’s a freezer on the bottom model, energy efficient, with the moters and whatnot on the top instead of underneath.
We went to see it. It looked large. We made room in the truck — I’d asked a third person to come help us pack up everything, and she had a small pickup, and she was willing to drive back and forth to New Town and give Chris a lift home into the bargain, so we moved a couple of items into her truck and loaded up the fridge. The plan was to store it in the garage if it didn’t fit in the space in the apartment.
It fit. I have a free fridge. Just because we decided to go to Whole Foods for lunch and meet someone Roommate knew five years ago.
And, we returned the truck early, so I don’t have to fuss with it tomorrow either.
Serendipity!
If only serendipity would have had the power on in my apartment when I got there, I’d be there right now unpacking. But since I packed away my flashlight, and my candles, I’ll have to wait til morning to go back. So I’m at Friend’s house doing laundry and drinking a Heffeweizen, and blogging my very good fortune. Now I’ll only need to spend five hundred bucks on appliances, and possibly twenty bucks on a gasket.
ETA: I found a movie featuring Admiral Nechayev as a lawyer and Hilary Swank. How very odd. I wonder if I watch a movie about a sleepwaker killer, will I sleepwalk?
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