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Have you ever wondered what would happen if you left the ice maker in your freezer on for 2 weeks straight while you were out of town? No? Me neither. However, I have the misfortune of having the answer for you anyway.

What will happen is the ice maker will make ice and ice and more ice until your freezer is full to the brim of identically shaped ice cubes. Then when you unsuspectingly open the freezer door after 2 whole weeks of glorious ice making, ice will pour out of the freezer all over the kitchen floor.

You will then use your trusty dust pan to scoop up all the ice off of the floor and out of the freezer, depositing it safely in the kitchen sink to melt (see picture below). After removing all the ice, you will discover that nearly everything that was safely frozen in your freezer now has freezer burn and promptly discard the offending items.

Then you shake your head at the irony of it all because you never, ever use the ice maker when you are home. Plus, if you hadn't been responsible and cleaned all of the nasty, freezer-burned items out the freezer prior to vacationing for 2 weeks, the ice maker would never have accidentally been turned on.