I bought it last year before summer, for cold water, ice and to store fruits and vegetables. It has been over 15 months now and the fridge is working fine. Once a while I have to pay attention to its workings and appearance.
The fridge door is opened since last night, and I plan to clean it well and thoroughly before use again. Since a few weeks I have been meaning to clean it. The current conditions are dire: the top is dirty, so is the door and the door-body soft lining is too ugly to look at. Inside, it is generally dirty, the door and the shelves and the ice box is completely covered with frost.
I like mangoes, and the last time I went home I came back with three mangoes, which I kept frozen for many weeks before finally gulping the last one down last night. Now I could clean the fridge properly, it is completely empty.
The other flat-mates pay no attention the cleaning and the maintenance of the fridge. Many times I don’t act because I expect them to as well, but they never do, but I still expect them to, and it’s a vicious cycle of inertia.
Two weeks ago, I had kept a half-full bottle of mazaa in the kitchen. I didn’t pay any attention to the bulge it developed which hinted at some internal chemical process, possibly fermentation. The bottle exploded and sprayed tiny droplets of mazaa all over the walls, doors and floor. I cleaned everything immediately and it smelled very fowl. But I didn’t look at the fridge door, which was also dirty. Cleaned it a couple of days later when I noticed it.
It was in an interesting state: the decayed mazaa must have provided some sort of nutrition and some fungi had started to grow on the door. It will be like this at the end of the world as well: human buildings and structures aren’t all that permanent. Left to itself, the fungi would spread in the kitchen and age it rapidly, in a few weeks or months one can only imagine the extent of nature’s will to take over where it is not allowed still. Tiny agents: microbes and dust are always around, make no mistake! They are always trying to reclaim the natural way of things and relationships.
So today probably, I will go back home, wipe off the dirt and the communities and the cultures in it, clean the fridge from the inside as well, and make it squeaky clean.
