Another update that has nothing to do with math.

I have a KitchenAid French door refrigerator, and when your close one of the doors, the other door would pop open a little bit. Annoyingly — and unlike the GE refrigerator in the old house — having the door be ajar was insufficent to trigger the “door open” alarm. In any event the door was like this all day, and it got warmer than it should have in the fridge, and no alarms went off, and at some point I need to remember to throw away the eggs.

(Writing this reminds me of a joke from middle school: “The door is ajar.” “No, it’s a bottle.”)

At first I assumed that the door alarm was broken or that I needed to press some buttons to turn it on or something. No, the alarm is just poorly designed.

Who knew that hidden behind the bottom grill of the fridge are feet that need to be adjusted so that the front of the refrigerator is at least as high as the back of the refrigerator so that gravity pulls the doors closed rather than open. NOT ME!

So, the moral of the story is that if you are disappointed with the way that the doors of your French door refrigerator close, check the leveling feet. I may have over-corrected the situation, but I am now much happier with my refrigerator.