The Freezer’s Secret
I think of a freezer as a one-function appliance: keep dinner cold. Then I open Austin Campbell’s Task & Purpose report and find the word “defrost” sitting where a simple explanation ought to be.
At Fort Huachuca, the report says, every commissary freezer entered defrost mode overnight. I imagine the whole row agreeing, in perfect silence, that tonight is a good night to stop being freezers. I keep staring at the control word: defrost. The kindest possible name for a machine undoing its assignment.