Too Many Plugs, Not Enough Holes

My officemate Katherine moved back to Tennessee a few weeks ago and I inherited her mini-fridge. I love having my own little icebox to keep all my snacks and lunch ingredients cool. I'm not much of a sharing person when it comes to space and territory. Katherine (and her replacement) had been keeping things in the fridge that really needed to be in a freezer so the temperature setting had been set to the coolest setting. When I moved it over into my space, there was quite a build-up of ice around the tiny freezer shelf. I knew I'd need to de-frost it pretty soon. But I didn't mean last night.

I have a fan, a lamp, a paper shredder, a printing calculator and the refrigerator all vying for one three-pronged extension cord. It's just not enough. Especially yesterday when it was hot (fan) and dark (lamp) and I needed to scan something. So I unplugged the fridge, scanned my documents, and promptly forgot to re-insert the fridge plug.

I arrived in my office this morning to a pool of water surrounding the fridge and when I opened it the ice had fallen from around the freezer shelf onto my food. Damn. I mopped it up as well I could and then unhappily had to dissasemble the pile of boxes from behind the fridge to get to the one on the bottom which had been soaked through from below. I'm glad it had binders in it and not file folders full of bookkeeping papers. That just would not have been fun.

Moral of the story: "don't have more plugs than you have holes" or "Radio Shack is right around the corner and sells power strips, stupid!"