## 52 Tale of a Fridge

Hi there ! Are you frosted like me ? No, I hope so...I'm the fridge of the author of the blog. Why not talking myself about my life after all those animals, plants and objects ? I can't move but I'm a kind of center of the life of humans. What would you do without us ? Did you ever live a few days without us? It's hard to get some fresh food each day without us and your quite addict to the cold we produce. I'm not a big fridge. Iceman is higher than me, for example...Iceman, what a nickname, ah, ah. But he's not sleeping inside me. He's just keeping his food in the cold, or freezing some.

I'm not a French food. My family came from South Korea and I was born in Poland. I don't think that you will find French fridge now and many of my friends were also from Poland or Turkiye. I heard stories of old fridge that French people are still calling them Frigidaire, because it was the first brand to distribute this everyday objects in the 20th century. A brand from General motors...But I can't roll. I'm to heavy to be moved easily but sometimes you have to move me, to clean my back, full of dust. I'm working better without dust. Last year, my owner moved me because I had a problem with a part of my engine. I was afraid to die but he made all he could to repair me. I'm quite young for a fridge : 9 years old. Too young to die but in your world, you are so used to throwing things away rather than fixing them. I talked about that with my friend the smartphone. Now, he's dead...7 years old. I hope to see the new one live a good life. I'm not a connected fridge, not a real American fridge, able to produce ic
e cubes and cold water. I'm a simple fridge with 2-doors. I'm not sure that connected fridge will live long with all the softwares that can be outdated in a few years.

I'm only making cold for different types of food. I know everything about my owners. I know who is eating ice cream (vegan of course, because they are). I know that sometimes they are eating mock meat and it's not so good for their health. I know bad habits but also good things about them. I love to see new vegetables in the bottom of me. If I could speak, I'll tell them it's time to eat something, because it's getting too mature. If I could read all the dates on the package, I could tell that it's time to eat it. But I'm not a «smart» fridge, even if I think that I'm smart enough for my job. By chance, my owner don't throw away food. He always find a way to accommodate leftovers. He even does soups with vegetable stems. But what a mess sometimes when he's buying too much of one thing. They are eating too much, I thing but I'm not a doctor to say that. They are not only two. I also keep the food for their cats. It's not often but they are very pampered by their humans. 

I said that I'm a center in their life. It's so true that they are putting some notes on me. I'm not speaking but it's my way to talk to them. At the same time, they don't talk to me much. So much the better for their mental health. But I'm a good witness of their life. A private detective or the police could ask us everything. I wonder if the newest of my fellow creatures have cameras. You're so mad with all your technology. You could try to make us better for energy consumption. I'm quite good for that. But you are making us bigger and bigger, like you. I hope that my successor will be smaller than me. If I can, I'll tell him all the habits of my owners. 

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