My fridge hates me!

I put buying a new appliance up there in the category with buying a car. The only better thing about it is the dickering of the price part is more simple, it is what it is! Not much going back to the great and powerful OZ for the salesman to lower the price by a few dollars. The stress level is nearly as bad though, at least to me. Besides the high cost which should be enough anguish it is also the making of the decision. Maybe I am weird .... ( don't answer that!) but I find it mortally impossible to choose which one....to cypher the price in comparison to the style and quality, AUGH! More than my little brain and heart can deduce! There I am looking and hoping one will be exactly right, we find an "open box!" translation I now know means....broken and sent back! The one we found was shiny and very modern, in the budget. I didn't know this particular brand built fridges which gave me a pause... The TV's are okay so I felt safe. Considering my frozen foods were home melting as we pondered our future fridge, we needed it today....."twenty dollars extra ma'am" and here we go... Home to wait. How exciting it is, makes a girl feel special, new appliances and all. (...hey lady, your life called and said it needs you back!) sad times when this is what does it for me! Oh geeeez! It arrived, so nice and just fits... Cool ice maker in the door, I loves it! Thus was Monday but, zip ahead five days and no more ice... A day of sadness. War in the Middle East, so what! My brand new fridge is broken!!! Back to buying a bag if ice and calling for service. At that point I am hurt, why would such a sleek impressive thing of beauty turn on me that way? "Call the MAN " as Andy once told Aunt Bee(Andy Griffith episode)sometimes getting a good deal is not always so good....so I did the deed, only to be asked, "why aren't you returning it?" oh well I didn't think of that! Embarrassed by a service person, where was that thinking cap? Hello Monday morning, again at the big named electronics store, "find me another one please, just like the broken one!" tick toc, it will be there on Wednesday, I did think about whether I should choose a different brand but nope it's a fluke! The jokes on me!!!! The second one has yet to make one cube of ice...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, rrrrrrrrr,rrrrrrrrr! Here I go again, first thing this morning, after checking four other stores just in case I have a person give me grief and I walk. As I walked in the store and rounded the corner by the washing machines the semi patronizing salesman begins to smile then chuckle... Uh oh! Don't tell me he said..... For which I reply, " you don't make enough to hear what I am about to say!" (totally stole that line from my husband, who says it better than me, much more intimidating!) manager please! Mr manager says pick one out I will see what I can do, he didn't even fight me.....no fair I was all geared up for it. They did give me a few to pick from so I found a comparable one in the more known brand and after several calls to said husband who couldn't be here, since he is out of town, fighting my anxiousness with decision making and this time ALONE, it was done... It will show up tomorrow. Forgive me Lord for needing to be taught patience or whatever I did to cause such toiling. I had to channel the strength from my dear sis in law who was the best at this Norma Rae-esque standing up for the little guy! I hope she us proud of me.... Time will tell if the new one, brand new still in the box, don't even think of opening it till I watch you; refrigerator gets to my door. Life's too short for this kind of drama over an appliance, no matter how good of a new car smell it has! To be continued.............