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Once upon a time, there was a husband and a wife. Let\u2019s, for the sake of convenience, call them Navin<\/a> and meetu<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n And in their \u201chome sweet home\u201d they have a refrigerator with a half-broken door. Yes, the door is \u201cpaani ke 15 botlo ke bojh ka maara\u201d. Because, the philosophy of this household (courtesy: man-of-the-house<\/a>) is – it ain\u2019t a \u2018decent\u2019 household if there ain\u2019t no chilled water in the fridge door.<\/font><\/p>\n Come the busiest week of meetu<\/a>\u2019s year, <\/font>the door and it\u2019s owner have a breakdown \u2013 one physical and one emotional. <\/font><\/p>\n Navin<\/a> (on phone) \u2013 meetu, meetu SOS! my honey\u2019s door is broken, what are we going to do?<\/font><\/p>\n meetu \u2013 Chill first (hoping he takes the pun in the right spirit). Yeah, about 6 months ago tech support said \u201cdoor not available, buy new fridge\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n Navin<\/a> \u2013 Come then, we need to replace my darling. <\/font><\/p>\n meetu \u2013 can we please wait until end of week? <\/font><\/p>\n Navin \u2013 ONE WEEK!? <\/font><\/p>\n (Translation \u2013 one-fourth of a month with no cold water!)<\/font><\/p>\n meetu \u2013 ok, ok cool it! (thoroughly enjoying this by now). we\u2019ll try to go tomorrow morning.<\/font><\/p>\n Navin \u2013 promise?<\/font><\/p>\n meetu \u2013 ok, yes.<\/font><\/p>\n * * *<\/font><\/p>\n Next day, meetu is mourning at the potential of 50 to 80 thousand well-saved rupees going missing in such a hurry. <\/font><\/p>\n Nevertheless, Navin and meetu set out for a romantic morning, fridge-hunting.<\/font><\/p>\n After a couple of electronic stores, when they see the perfect fridge – <\/font><\/p>\n meetu (to salesperson) \u2013 So, do you have an exchange offer on any of these things?<\/font><\/p>\n Navin (out-of-characteristically interrupts) \u2013 No-no, we don\u2019t need an exchange offer.<\/font><\/p>\n meetu (thinking, \u201cwe don\u2019t need a clumsy cupboard, either\u201d) \u2013 uh\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n Navin – (good friend) Amit<\/a> knows someone who can fix the door.<\/p>\n meetu \u2013 huh!?<\/p>\n Navin (without batting an eyelash) \u2013 It might take him ONE WEEK to come\u2026<\/p>\n *End of story*<\/font><\/p>\n * * *<\/font><\/p>\n closing credits \u2013 <\/font><\/p>\n as gracefully as possible, we walked out of the store. the \u201csomeone\u201d came in a couple of days later.<\/font><\/p>\n my honey\u2019s honey has a door that clings on to it just fine, thanks to some handy duct tape.<\/font><\/p>\n if you want to see what more fun happened, become a fan of the refrigerator<\/a>\u2019s facebook pages<\/a>, yep plural.<\/font><\/p>\n * * *<\/font><\/p>\n ps. ok peoples, just because i\u2019ve been ignoring this blog, doesn\u2019t mean you leave your comments on the fb pages, <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Once upon a time, there was a husband and a wife. Let\u2019s, for the sake of convenience, call them Navin and meetu. And in their \u201chome sweet home\u201d they have a refrigerator with a half-broken door. Yes, the door is \u201cpaani ke 15 botlo ke bojh ka maara\u201d. Because, the philosophy of this household…<\/p>\n