{"id":84493,"date":"2019-01-24T11:15:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T15:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=84493"},"modified":"2019-01-23T20:27:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T00:27:06","slug":"in-praise-of-appliance-repairmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=84493","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Appliance Repairmen…."},"content":{"rendered":"
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This switchboard controls your fridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There seems to be some misunderstanding by the uninformed who think, incorrectly, that Mr. Phillipps\/Stanard\u2019s MOS as a fridge repairman in the Marine Corps was under scrutiny.<\/p>\n

Unless you\u2019ve been without a working fridge for three days, all of which just happened to be the hottest that year, you don\u2019t know how valuable a good reefer\/APPLIANCE repairman is. I would give a \u2018by name\u2019 shout out to the guy who fixed mine last summer, but as many idjits as there are on the internet, just looking for trouble, I won\u2019t do that here.<\/p>\n

Instead, I will take the time to let you know that when the reeferman returns your phone call while he\u2019s out of town on vacation, sets the date and time to get to your house, tells you what is wrong over the phone, provides a quote, as well, and shows up promptly and even lets you take pictures of what was wrong, he\u2019s probably the best thing on the planet since the invention of the microwave.<\/p>\n

To explain what was wrong: in the photo, there are two red lights barely visible at the bottom of the circuit board which are part of the mechanism that tells your modern-day fridge when to defrost and when to freeze stuff.\u00a0 They are switches. They also signal the fridge to send cold air into the non-frozen compartment to cool it and run the fan.<\/p>\n

And he did explain everything, got right to work because he had another appointment, had the part in his truck, charged the correct price, and let me take a moment to get a picture of what was wrong. I did not know, until he pulled the freezer panel apart, that behind that blank wall at the back of the freezer section is the circuit board which controls the defrost\/cooling cycle, and that it had a switch that simply quit working. He was kind enough to leave a magnetic card for my fridge door and told me how much it would cost to replace the igniter in my oven. I wrote a very positive review for him on Yelp, which I thought he deserved, and he sent an e-mail acknowledging it to me.<\/p>\n

Without modern refrigeration, we\u2019d still be using ice boxes and ordering blocks of ice to keep the cooling compartment chilled so that the milk won\u2019t spoil. It used to be that people went out to ponds and creeks to cut ice to store in the family\u2019s icehouse, if they were lucky enough to have one.\u00a0 We don\u2019t have to do that now.<\/p>\n

So anyone who thinks that we\u2019ve been maligning APPLIANCE or FRIDGE repairmen \u2013 just get over yourselves. We are not doing that.<\/p>\n

We have been addressing someone who was given job training at no expense by the military, and just did not want to do the job that could have given him a good career as an independent businessman.<\/p>\n

My appliance guy told me that he is never<\/em> out of work. He is, in fact, so busy that he has to put a notice on his website that he’s out of town until whatever date, but will make appointments for when he gets back.<\/p>\n

I’d hire him before I’d let that silly old goat with a history of being a slacker and a drunk anywhere near my front lawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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