This was how I felt after lifting my old fridge along with my friend Karthik, who happens to be a body builder. It was an old Westinghouse, I had used it for nearly 2.5 years myself. It was very roomy, nearly 300 litre. But the compresser was heavy and was very difficult to lift. The ironic thing was that after lifting it for 3 steps and resting and lifting again, we found out that the fridge had roller wheels !!
In case any of you are wondering whether I drained the water before undertaking the exercise, I realised that I did not do it fully, and there is (was) water all over the kitchen floor and some on the carpet as well. And boy, it was stinking as well. So there I was, lifting the fridge, pushing it to the naturestrip in front of the apartment block to be collected by the council garbage removers next week. After that, I am still not able to lean or sit properly, might be tomorrow before I can bend my back to a extent. For the fridge removal, I really had to bend my back, literally !!
Sometimes I wish I was back in India where you can get help to do all this for you, but the dollar dream goes on, yet to provide to act as a soothing balm for the back pain.
December 5, 2006 at 3:10 pm
Appah!!! finally u threw our fridge out ??? It had retired long back my friend. We were just prolonging its life hehehe… cos’ we were students then, weren’t we?
I remember the pain we went thru’ when we had to get it up to the I floor in our first apartment & then again while transporting it to Yendon Road.
It happens buddy. Its a grave reminder to get fit back & also dat u’re ageing hehehe…