Well, of course!!!!!!!!
 

I have a Rich Plan Freezer that is HUGE..... my parents bought this gentle giant when my brother was born, June 1955. This thing runs like a top, flawlessly for ALL these years! So, tonight, when my son goes to the garage to get the ham and the ground chuck out to thaw for tomorrow, THE HANDLE ON THE DOOR BROKE OFF!!!!!! ALL MY MEAT I NEED FOR MY MEAL PREPARATION FOR THANKSGIVING, IS IN THAT FREEZER!!!!!! So.....rather than get all upset, it just was not in the cards for me to cook tomorrow.......so I am actually Thankful the handle broke off.......I guess.....I am going to take a hot bath, sip some Butterscotch Schnaaps, and figure this out.....

Our electronic devices are programmed to malfunction, break or die on holidays or other very important occasions, no exceptions. Some do mess up, though, and go at other times but the plan is to break or go out big so that the frustrated owner will rush to buy a new one rather than chance a similar occurence any time soon at another vital moment in life when the dang thing is most needed. I am certain of this fact.

Enjoy your Schnapps and go ahead and face what you have to do.

It is always the way. Things break when something important is happening. I hope you enjoyed your bath and schnapps. I would guess you figured out what you were going to do instead. Have a great Thanksgiving

You got off easy.....if that happened here my DH would get out the crow bar!

Ok sorry. But this made me laugh! :D. Sounds like you have my kind of luck! I say go out to dinner. At least now you have an excuse! :p

What did you end up doing? I would be stressed out...

I just kept telling myself it was some kind of blessing in disguise....and I found 2 bags of shrimp in the freezer in the house....so I boiled up a pot of shrimp boil and dumped them in, with some new potatoes and a bag of mini corn on the cob~!

well... that sounds yummy

Let's hear it for us humans!!! That is performance in the clutch!!!

Though I'm thoroughly convinced our electronics and appliances totally own us - and to keep us completely humble and pliant, plot evil against us fairly frequently, occasionally the human can find a way through the smokescreen of despair they fire off at the most inopportune times and find a way to briefly prevail. Hooray!!! Humans win one!!!

I agree!! And after calling and emailing all over the USA, I just got off the phone with a dear man in Utica (sp?) New York who is the oldest service repair company for Rich Plan (carrier) in the Nation....and looks like I am out of luck on getting that handle replaced. He said I will need to find a handy man who can just "Aggie engineer" that door latch mechanism....he said it wont be pretty, but it will work....he said is is a simple mechanism in there....and a handy man will be able to run something around the bar in there that the door handle pulls back on, opening the door....he was very intrigued with my freezer, and reminised about it like a long lost friend of his....he said they were true work horses and they simply do NOT make freezers that will continue to run for over 55 years, any more! A bit of trivia....he saidthere is a movie out on DVD, "A Killing in a Small Town" , and it has my freezer in that movie! The wife catches her husband cheating on her, and she murders the woman he was running around with, right in front of "my" freezer!
So now, I guess I will call my beloved contractor, who took very good care of me following Ike......he should be able to come up with some kind of way for me to get into that freezer!

I agree!! And after calling and emailing all over the USA, I just got off the phone with a dear man in Utica (sp?) New York who is the oldest service repair company for Rich Plan (carrier) in the Nation....and looks like I am out of luck on getting that handle replaced. He said I will need to find a handy man who can just "Aggie engineer" that door latch mechanism....he said it wont be pretty, but it will work....he said is is a simple mechanism in there....and a handy man will be able to run something around the bar in there that the door handle pulls back on, opening the door....he was very intrigued with my freezer, and reminised about it like a long lost friend of his....he said they were true work horses and they simply do NOT make freezers that will continue to run for over 55 years, any more! A bit of trivia....he saidthere is a movie out on DVD, "A Killing in a Small Town" , and it has my freezer in that movie! The wife catches her husband cheating on her, and she murders the woman he was running around with, right in front of "my" freezer!
So now, I guess I will call my beloved contractor, who took very good care of me following Ike......he should be able to come up with some kind of way for me to get into that freezer!

And I thought my 30 year old microwave was a workhorse! Wow! Sounds like your freezer was made back in the day when things were actually made for the long haul - ?before the great conspiracy to program them to fail the day after the last warranty ends - and hung in there a long time before it turned on you in your time of need. Still, it is to be commended for its long years of faithful service.

My sister used to have such old sliding glass doors that when the lock broke, there was no replacement still being made and she had to have a guy in to engineer a lock for her. He did a good job and it was only like $78.00 and that was less than 2 years ago. But she never gets charged very much for anything - I don't know how she sails through a home service call and out the other side without paying a ransom but she does. But something else happened to the door unit later and she finally did have to have it replaced last year. Hope your contractor guy can help you out - he probably can. Guys have such a way of knowing just what to do to fix things like that!