Showerthought: That time a drip tray cost me 3 hours on a Saturday

I was out in Oak Park last month fixing a fridge that wouldn't stop running. Turned out the drain line was frozen solid because someone had stuffed the drip tray with old food wrappers (like, who does that?). I had to thaw the whole thing with a heat gun and then fish out the gunk piece by piece. Whole job took me 3 hours for something that should have been 20 minutes. Anybody else run into weird blockages that make you question humanity?

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ryan_nelson3mo ago

Heard a guy once found a whole dead mouse in a drip tray.

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tylerr393mo ago

Read somewhere that @ryan_nelson's dead mouse story is actually more common than you'd think in old diners.

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