Easy When You Know How.

A little while back, the cool drink fridge at the kiosk started to make weird noises and eventually packed it in. The repairman came and assessed it as needing to be either repaired off-sight or replaced with another one. He left saying he would be in touch with the result. Eventually he got back to me that it was being replaced but didn’t know when, as that was someone else’s responsibility.

I was concerned how they were going to get it out of my “Small Hole in the Wall” for as well as its smallness it also has an immovable metre high (and almost as wide) counter. I was not looking forward to being involved in the removal of the old fridge let alone getting the new one in undamaged.

Eventually the new (reconditioned) fridge arrived with two huge guys who looked like they could play “: Prop” in a Rugby team.

Anyway they threw a heavy blanket over the counter, while I exited my “Hole”. One of them entered and moved the fridge out of its space and got on one side of it and his mate then entered on the other. They then lifted it up and placed it on the counter and spun it around so that exiting the kiosk, they then lowered it to the floor and wheeled it away and brought the new one up and replicated the previous procedure in reverse. Despite the small and confined place and the counter, what I thought would be a difficult job was easily done and done within 5 minutes. Just shows what can be done when you know how and have the right equipment. In this case a heavy blanket and two strong men who knew what they were doing.

What about us? Do we often struggle because we don’t have the proper equipment or know how, but still proceed anyhow? Sometimes we even eventually succeed but with difficulty, only to find that it would have been so much easier if we had done it properly in the first place, or sort help and/or advice beforehand. What say you? Is there something you are about to do for which you should seek expert help for? Even if it is something mundane like shifting a fridge successfully? Walter