When you ignore something long enough...

I love it when you ignore something long enough that it actually fixes itself!

Our refrigerator is one that has an ice and water dispenser on the door. A few weeks ... okay, like, two months ago ... the water dispenser went on the fritz. The light indicating you had selected the water to dispense would go on and off. Sometimes it would be on, you'd put a glass under to get water, and it would disappear, and no water would come out. After a few days of this, the green light indicating it was working properly disappeared all together.

Because I don't have a wife to take care of such things, I ignored it. Just for a day or two, I reasoned, until I had the time to deal with it.

Then I went to Phoenix, then Vegas, then Michigan, then Dallas, then Jackson Hole, then Kalispell, then Dallas, then Emerald Isle... and, well, you're getting the idea.

In my defense, I did get out the refigerator instruction manual and try several of the "trouble shooting" suggestions. I changed the water filter. I held down all the buttons or 20 seconds to try to reset. I emptied and cleaned the ice dispenser. So, see, I did something.

But I just hadn't gotten around to calling a repair person. (In general, I don't like calling repair people. Mostly because they intimidate me. They're, as a rule, smarter than me. And they make me feel really dumb for having to call them for relatively small tasks that I have just no clue about.)

Then, this morning...

The green light reappeared! I saw it when I first went into the kitchen this morning. But I just ignored the green light. I didn't want to fall for its teasing! If I put a glass under, and it disappeared without water - well, I didn't want it to ruin my mood since I was headed out for a jog.

But, just now... well, I put a glass in the door.

WATER!!!

I even tempted fate. I hit the button for ice.

ICE!!!!

Wait, wait. Can I get water again? Hit the button for water, and...

WATER!!!

OMG! I succesfully ignored a problem so long that it fixed itself! My luck has changed!!

Now, if only the diswasher would follow suit...