Every morning when we wake up, the first task we undergo is to plug everything back into the outlets. Each night, the members of the household or the “helpers” unplug each and every plug, including the fridge. This annoys us to no end that they unplug the fridge. We just started cooking more for ourselves and we always have a stash of butter or UHT milk in the fridge. These are extremely expensive here, compartivly speaking and everything gets RUINED because they always unplug the frigde. They never replug it either, they are terribly sneaky. We were up at 3 am because the neighbors got a new puppy, which they lock up in the back of their car at night, their logic is that they are not allowed to have the puppy in the apartment so they just keep it locked up in the car…..right, that makes a whole lot of sense. So this few week old puppy shrieks and howls throughout the night. So, unable to sleep, we wander into the kitchen for a late night peek into the fridge only to discover that it is not plugged in. We replug it only to find it unplugged again by 8 the next morning.
We used to cook in the kitchen upstairs where we live but we returned from out last little getaway to find that the stove DISAPPEARED. They just picked up and moved the stove to the downstairs part, which is essentially another house. So now there are 2 stoves down there, 2 sets of gas burners and probably 4 burners to use with the coal or wood. Not only that, they moved the gas burners OUTSIDE of the kitchen. So it is right next to our little coup for our lady turkeys who are sitting on their eggs and now I get attacked with mosquitos and get mud all over my shoes just so I can go and cook. But what baffles me is that there are technically 3 kitchen areas in that house. So they evacuate everything from all of those areas to put them outside in the dirt and mud!?!?! WHY??? Why spend the money to have this kitchen built which we used to use to then move everythiug outside to basically the front yard??? I can’t even imagine someone in the use taking all the efforts to pick up a stove and relocate it down stairs not only down stairs but to the front yard to do all the cooking. But also there are 3 rooms which used to be used as kitchens at one point!!
It drives me crazy!! I understand that there is an “energy crisis”. I was watching the news this morning and stepped away to get a drink, when I returned the tv was off, unplugged and the fan turned off!! I can understand unplugging the tv when it is not in use (it’s kind of annoying when I was watching it) but a fridge is ALWAYS in use!! that is the whole point of a fridge, to constantly keep things cool. That is why we can never serperate the ice bags we have in there because they are melted and then refrozen until they all join together to become one ridiculous block!! Not to mention all the food that spoils and then makes my expensive butter taste like shit!!!
I doubt this will ever be resolved unless we move out and live on our own but seeing that there are only a few months left of living here it is not really worth it. I guess the plug/unplug war will continue still for quite some time.
