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May. 6th, 2021 05:45 amMe, last night, closing the freezer door: ::hears a sound like water gurgling::
My brain: WHAT. WAS. THAT.
Me: ahahaha I'm sure it's fine, right? it was probably a fluke. maybe I didn't hear it at all!
My brain: THAT WAS A BAD SOUND. CRISIS LEVEL SOUND.
Me, after opening and closing the refrigerator door (no sound), then the freezer door again (definite gurgling sound), then repeating: okay, water gurgling, that's... bad, yes, but look! the floor is dry! refrigerators make weird noises, we know this!
My brain: THAT WAS NOT A WEIRD NOISE, THAT WAS A VERY IDENTIFIABLE NOISE. WATER NOISE. BAD NOISE.
(which was true! so for some reason I checked the freezer again, despite the fact that the water in there is All Definitely Frozen, and I also checked the refrigerator, and then the floor again. I did not pull the refrigerator away from the wall for further investigation, because 1) that's very hard; 2) it seemed possible I could make things worse; and also 3) either there was no water back there, in which case there was no reason to pull it out, or there was, in which case what in the world was I going to do about it?)
TO THE INTERNET!
Luckily, many frantic people before me have searched for things like 'closed freezer door gurgling sound.' I learned the following:
*Refrigerators make SO MANY weird noises. The weirdest. They are the appliance version of the internet dial-up tone. Why do they make those noises? BECAUSE REASONS, THAT'S WHY.
*Gurgling noises are probably the cooling cycle doing a thing with the water and the air; I don't know, I'm not a scientist!
*There is a Very Good Chance that hearing such noises does not indicate a catastrophic failure of the device, but is just Yet Another Weird Noise that can safely be ignored.
My brain: WHAT. WAS. THAT.
Me: ahahaha I'm sure it's fine, right? it was probably a fluke. maybe I didn't hear it at all!
My brain: THAT WAS A BAD SOUND. CRISIS LEVEL SOUND.
Me, after opening and closing the refrigerator door (no sound), then the freezer door again (definite gurgling sound), then repeating: okay, water gurgling, that's... bad, yes, but look! the floor is dry! refrigerators make weird noises, we know this!
My brain: THAT WAS NOT A WEIRD NOISE, THAT WAS A VERY IDENTIFIABLE NOISE. WATER NOISE. BAD NOISE.
(which was true! so for some reason I checked the freezer again, despite the fact that the water in there is All Definitely Frozen, and I also checked the refrigerator, and then the floor again. I did not pull the refrigerator away from the wall for further investigation, because 1) that's very hard; 2) it seemed possible I could make things worse; and also 3) either there was no water back there, in which case there was no reason to pull it out, or there was, in which case what in the world was I going to do about it?)
TO THE INTERNET!
Luckily, many frantic people before me have searched for things like 'closed freezer door gurgling sound.' I learned the following:
*Refrigerators make SO MANY weird noises. The weirdest. They are the appliance version of the internet dial-up tone. Why do they make those noises? BECAUSE REASONS, THAT'S WHY.
*Gurgling noises are probably the cooling cycle doing a thing with the water and the air; I don't know, I'm not a scientist!
*There is a Very Good Chance that hearing such noises does not indicate a catastrophic failure of the device, but is just Yet Another Weird Noise that can safely be ignored.
