We've been in this house for, oh, twenty-plus years. All this time the refrigerator in the kitchen has been not-quite-right: it has had single doors, with the handles all the way to one side. When we opened the (previous) refrigerator door all the way, the door would hit the kitchen island. BONK. Be careful! And we could not really use the right-hand vegetable drawer, because we couldn't open it all the way.
That's just the way it was. For over two decades.
As part of the house refurbishing (such a nightmare, slowly receding into memory, although there are still lingering boxes that have not been unpacked), we purchased a new refrigerator. The kind which has double doors, opening in the middle outwards. For the first time ever, I can open the doors fully, use all the drawers, and not hit the island.
It's DELIGHTFUL.
Why did I tolerate a mediocre refrigerator forever? There's no reason why this purchase couldn't have been done sooner. Surely at some point, I deserved a nice fridge. Or at least one that I could use properly. It never occurred to me to take charge and get one. Or to ask someone else to do it. Why? I do not know.
Anyway, I am certainly enjoying the new refrigerator. It's the little things in life. And it is OK to want the niceties that make one's life a teeny bit better.
I need to identify more of these little things, and incorporate them accordingly.
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