Being in the military has its good points. Sure my husband makes half the salary he would in the civilian market. Sure we can be moved across the world at a moments notice. Sure they can just misfile paperwork and cause all our worldly possessions to wait in limbo for three months. But you can't beat the benefits.
For the last few days I've been having trouble with the refrigerator. It turns off at weird moments and I have to push the reset button on the outlet to get it started again. More than once I've come home to a dead refrigerator and wondered if I should throw all my food away.
It happened twice today. I had found the last straw.
I picked up my phone and dialed the number of the housing inspector that was stuck on the fluky fridge. I explained my problem. He told me he would send the electrician over.
About 15 minutes later the door bell rang and I looked through the peephole to see two Japanese men dressed in work uniforms - coveralls or overalls and sweatshirts. They slipped off their shoes and came inside. After poking around in my fridge for a few minutes, they they told me it had to be replaced. "We'll be back in ten minutes."
Ten minutes later the door bell rang again. The Japanese men had multiplied by two and they had brought the new fridge. They switched the two. I now had a new, shiny, white fridge. They said the electrician would be over to change the outlet.
And in a few minutes he was. He switched the outlets, plugged in the fridge, bowed and was gone.
To recap. With one phone call I got a new outlet and a new refrigerator. Total cost to me - $0.
Take that civilian world.
I leave you today with an inspiring life lesson from the late comedian Mitch Hedberg, "I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience."
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