Some sound advice for anyone who's expecting a delivery from Fridges 'R'
Us in the near future.
"To you, it's just a
worn out fridge."
(In an unusual shade of pink, admittedly, but a worn
out fridge nonetheless.)
"But to a child, it's
a caravan..."
"...a ship, a castle..."
"...even a bed..."
(...a football pitch, a nuclear fall-out shelter, an
illegal drinking establishment, a Lebanese brothel, a Bolivian drug factory...
oh no, that's probably just me.)
"And a deathtrap. Airtight and impossible to open from the inside."
(See, it makes a perfect fall-out shelter. Airtight
and impossible to open from... oh bugger.)
"Don't let an old fridge
be a new danger to children. Take off the door, or smash the lock."
(Or perhaps gently suggest that playing inside an old
fridge is a particularly stupid thing to do?)
"Or better still, ask
your local council to take it away, or tell you how to dispose of it..."
(Presumably he means the fridge, not your child...)
"...before it kills a
child!"
(Fridges, eh? I'm surprised they allow them to
be made in the first place. We contacted a leading fridge manufacturer
and asked them to comment on these potential deathtraps, but they hung
up.)
