We really needed a new Fridge. The one we had (our landlady’s) didn’t keep food cool anymore and yet the freezer needed to be defrosted once a month. Add that to its size…uber-small…it was not very useful. But we recently faced a problem as we have been window shopping for a new fridge and dreaming about a new one. Our corridor door (a common door for our neighbors and us which leads into the main stairwell of the apartment building, was also built uber-small and cannot accommodate the passage of any sizeable equipment (my washer and dryers scraped both its sides, simultaneously passing through it and that was after the movers had unboxed them and shave down the door frame to accommodate them) especially a new fridge. Basically I think the opening was designed to accommodate Hobbits!!! So we just spent $115 dollars on the 17th of December having the old and ugly door with non-working locks, knocked out, the concrete around it cut-out, and an new door fitted and installed with working locks (including the extra $5 dollars so that the door could be unlocked from the inside without a key – a rare trait that is in Ukraine. I think low fire-safety standards are one of the ways that they control the excess population in the cities!). Our neighbor gave us $8 towards the project which was surprising although not very helpful considering the extra key we had cut for them cost $5. HEHEHEHE! But I hadn’t planned on nor did I actually ask them to help. Rather my worker installing everything asked them of his own accord. We we shocked when he told us she agreed to help pay for even the lock.
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