The Crash of '06
On Tuesday morning of this week we were just about to head off to the pictures. I was sitting in the lounge with the laptop on my knee and suddenly I heard an enormous CRASH in the kitchen. It was huge. Jo screamed and I wondered what on earth had happened. I fairly bolted to the kitchen to see our fridge door on the floor of the kitchen and all the contents of the door smashed all over the floor. Jo stood perfectly still and said, 'What do I do?' There was broken glass, chili sauce, milk and orange juice all over the floor. What a mess. Unfortunately it never occurred to me to take a photo, so I can't show you the sight.
We gradually cleaned up the mess and then examined the door of the fridge more closely to see what happened. A centre hinge that both fridge doors swing from was snapped through.
I took the hinge off and headed down to the spare parts place for fridges and washing machines. The helpful man there looked up on his computer to see if another one could be obtained. After some minutes, he looked up at me over his glasses and said, 'No good, I'm afraid, they stopped making those hinges three years ago'. What do you do? I rang a couple of different repairmen to seek advice on my problem. The best advice I got was to go and buy a new fridge. Not really what I wanted to hear.
It was then we thought of Harry. Harry is a retired engineer that has a whole engineering workshop in his shed. We gave Harry a ring and he came straight round. I showed him the broken bracket / hinge assembly and he said straight away, 'Yeh, I reckon I could make a copy of that for you. The next morning true to his word he appeared with the bracket and went straight to work fitting it to the fridge and re-hanging the doors. I marveled at Harry's skill not only in manufacturing such a complicated metal hinge, but making it the identical size to fit our fridge door. I could never have made that hinge, but Harry did it quite easily. Isn't it a wonderful example of the rich diversity of skills that God has given to people. Everytime I go to the fridge now I will think of Harry and thank God for the different gifts and abilities he has given to each of us.
We gradually cleaned up the mess and then examined the door of the fridge more closely to see what happened. A centre hinge that both fridge doors swing from was snapped through.
I took the hinge off and headed down to the spare parts place for fridges and washing machines. The helpful man there looked up on his computer to see if another one could be obtained. After some minutes, he looked up at me over his glasses and said, 'No good, I'm afraid, they stopped making those hinges three years ago'. What do you do? I rang a couple of different repairmen to seek advice on my problem. The best advice I got was to go and buy a new fridge. Not really what I wanted to hear.
It was then we thought of Harry. Harry is a retired engineer that has a whole engineering workshop in his shed. We gave Harry a ring and he came straight round. I showed him the broken bracket / hinge assembly and he said straight away, 'Yeh, I reckon I could make a copy of that for you. The next morning true to his word he appeared with the bracket and went straight to work fitting it to the fridge and re-hanging the doors. I marveled at Harry's skill not only in manufacturing such a complicated metal hinge, but making it the identical size to fit our fridge door. I could never have made that hinge, but Harry did it quite easily. Isn't it a wonderful example of the rich diversity of skills that God has given to people. Everytime I go to the fridge now I will think of Harry and thank God for the different gifts and abilities he has given to each of us.
posted by Larry Holt @ 5:46 PM
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