Refridgerator engineers... should have their degrees revoked.

Every hour or two for about 30 minutes or so, my refridgerator emits a high pitch whine.  So every hour or two, I interrupt watching a movie, cooking, or talking - to point out to my husband that I can hear the fridge whine.  The fact that there's nothing I can do about it makes me think about torture and the Geneva convention.  In the past, my land lord has tried many different things to reduce the sound - even to the point of purchasing a second unit (which ended up being a new torture of defrosting every month because there was inadequate heat transfer to the surroundings from the sides).  

It had come to a point where we were scared to open the fridge for fear that it would frost up.  NOW, I just look at the fridge and think "DIE DIE DIE".  

As a Buddhist, perhaps I should practice equanamity.  I wonder how a meditating monk would respond if asked to meditate next to this refridgerator.  

BUT, what I really don't understand is how anyone could engineer something like this and then proceed to sell it to the masses.  Where has technology gotten to if a person needs to listen a high pitch whine every few hours?  Could they not have designed the fridge with this in mind?  

It wouldn't be so bad if we didn't have such a small apartment.  As a result, am counting down the days until we find a new home and move out.