Battle of the fridge

This was first published on facebook a couple of days ago, but as that application keeps failing, I have decided to paste it here, for posterity. Comments from the original posting have been lost in transferring,sorry.

So there I am looking at the large carton of lemon and ginger smoothie (unopened but suspiciously bulgy) when the fridge door suddenly drops onto my foot - again! This is a large fridge (as tall as me) and the door pivots on two tiny screws - one top and one bottom. The one at the top is located in place with a bracket, but the one at the bottom is not. There is about an eighth of an inch of thread on this little bottom screw - clearly a disaster waiting to happen. When the screw undoes itself, the whole door drops down, (but not off - as it is held at the top by the little aforementioned bracket). We now have a free-swinging (on one point) heavy, five-foot tall fridge door, loaded with assorted milk, juice and smoothie cartons, bottles of vodka, jars of chilli sauce, olives, eggs etc (you get the picture - its five days after xmas). I am alone in the house. The fridge door has dropped down enough so that it cannot close. I am holding on to it with one hand to stop it from breaking the top bracket and beginning to worry. I have to reach into the fridge left-handed and unload the door one thing at a time - all the while sweating that the bracket at the top might break and bring the whole edifice crashing down on me. I soon have a circle of various liquidy things on the floor around me (can’t reach the work surface AND keep hold of the fridge door, which I am trying to support with one hand, so that it doesn’t twist too far and break the top bracket). Once the door is empty I can breathe a bit (it weighs less and bottles aren’t going to fall out and break around me now). I have to try to fix this thing now by lifting UP the door with my left hand while trying to locate the screw hole UNDERNEATH the door at the bottom with my right hand. Did I say this was a big door? I am at full stretch in both directions. Suddenly, there is a “clunk”. The door has seated itself correctly. I now take a chance and let go of the door (while leaning into it with a shoulder-brace) and try to screw up the little screw. It turns twice. There is a slot in the head of the screw which is clearly meant for a screwdriver. However, this slot faces the floor and is about an inch and a half FROM the floor. Even the shortest, stubbiest screwdriver in the world will not fit in that gap. I improvise with a butter knife held sideways and get another turn on the screw. Miraculously, I have fixed the fridge door, and will not have to throw out the trifle and beef wellington. The smoothie was fine.