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  • Competence vs Congeniality

    refrigeratorI bought something that was supposed to be a refrigerator but isn’t.

    It looks like a refrigerator.  Quite an attractive refrigerator, at that.  It’s gleaming white, oh so clean, and very spacious.  It came from a refrigerator company and was delivered by certified refrigerator delivery people.  It is in all ways a refrigerator, except for one annoying detail.

    It does not refrigerate.

    I plugged it into the appropriate wall receptacle, returned in the requisite four hours, and made an important discovery.

    Are you ready?  You might want to write this down. (more…)