I’m just waiting on a fridge

I got picked by Mom Central to be on “Team Fridge”, which means I’m getting a new Frigidaire Side-by-Side Refrigerator to review. Which, yay!Â Friday afternoon I got a phone call from a man (whose name and phone number I of course forgot to take down) saying the fridge would be delivered yesterday by a local appliance store. He told me where on the appliance store’s website to go to type in my invoice number and track my delivery.

8:00 AM Saturday- I get up, make coffee, boot up my laptop, go to the appliance store’s website, type in my invoice number, and it tells me my fridge has not been loaded on a delivery truck yet.Â No problem, it’s early, right? There’s a toll free number listed on the site, I call it.Â Answering machine. “Please call back during regular business hours, Monday thru Friday 8-5.”Â Well that’s just peachy.

10:00 AM Saturday- I woke up my husband and had him pull our fridge out from the wall so I could sweep and mop under it. Don’t want the nice delivery men to see all the crap stuck to the floor.Â I took everything off the front of the fridge and put Ryan to work doing all the dishes so we’d have room in the sink to put food from the fridge when we transferred it to the new one.Â Checked the website- new fridge still not loaded on truck.

1:00 PM Saturday- Kaitlyn and I go down for a nap after I check the appliance store site again. The fridge has STILL not been loaded on a truck. Trying very hard to be patient which is not one of my stronger virtues.

4:00 PM Saturday- I call the appliance store. The girl who answers says yes, their system shows I’m getting a Frigidaire from them and it’s scheduled to be delivered. She suggests I call the toll free number. The one that NO ONE ANSWERS ON SATURDAY. Gahhhhh.

5:30 PM Saturday- I go to GameStop to trade in a bunch of Xbox 360 and DS games we don’t play anymore. I get enough in credit to buy the new EA Sports Active for the Wii. Awesome!Â I go to Target for ground coffee and a Diaper Genie refill.Â I don’tÂ buy ANYTHING ELSE, which for me is pretty much a miracle.

6:30 PM Saturday- When I get home, Chris tells me that the man called again, the one who had called Friday, asking how we liked our new fridge. Chris told him it hadn’t been delivered, and the man was, quote, surprised. He told Chris he would “try to call but probably couldn’t do anything”.

10:00 PM Saturday- Ryan and Nathan were both at sleepovers. The house was way too quiet and I never got my new fridge. I was kind of pissed off. Kaitlyn was still wide awake after her long afternoon nap, so the three of us went out for ice cream.Â We came home and got her to bed and then watched “Hellboy II: The Golden Army”.

And now it’s Sunday morning and we’re watching Chris Matthews and drinking coffee, and I’m waiting for the appliance store to open at noon. Oh, and guess what? That page where you can type in your invoice number and see your delivery status?Â Yesterday, it showed my name and address, the name and model of our new fridge, and something like “Not loaded on truck”.Â Today?
Just my name and address and NOTHING ELSE.Â Did my new fridge disappear? I am not a happy camper, ABC WAREHOUSE OF LANSING.Â Give me my ding dang Frigidaire!