Standing By The Open Freezer

Growing up without air conditioning we often would go and stand in the freezer section of the grocery store on really hot days. Back then, at the Village Market, the freezers were the chest kind without any lids or doors so they cold would just hang there around the Swanson TV dinners and cool off. You had to kind of lean into the freezer waiting for the cold to engulf your hot sweaty body. It was a pleasurable thing.
Now, thank goodness, I live in a house with air conditioning. Today was the kind of hot day that would have made me want to go to the Village Market and stand by the freezers. Sadly that is what I ended up doing in my own house, unnecessarily. Well, not to get cool.
The freezer in our garage is the worst model for draining. I am no freezer expert, but it seems like we have a very badly designed machine. Water from somewhere drips in the freezer and rather than going out into the pan it collects inside the freezer. Overtime it backs up inside the whole bottom and back wall of the compartment and eventually forces the door open.Today was the open door day which meant I absolutely had to defrost the freezer.    
So like my childhood summer days, I stood beside the open freezer chilled by the giant blocks of ice. The only difference was I was hammering the ice, heating it with a blow dryer and pulling out all the food to see if it was salvageable.
I have come to the conclusion that I should just stop freezing food because most of the time it does not get eaten and I have to deal with it when the freezer gives way. I need to live like the British and only have one tiny freezer compartment, enough for one tiny ice cube tray.
Working to remove giant logs of ice is in no way as pleasurable and just standing by the freezer section cooling off. I was hot, sweaty and filthy by the time this terrible job was done. The only good news is that the freezer got very cold right away after I plugged it back in when it was clean and empty. I am going to wait and see if any water collects in the next day before I add anything to the box. If I can just figure out how to get the dripping water to exit through the drain I might never have to do this job again, but that probably involves a level of engineering I do not possess. Remember I am working with brain which was happy just to lean by the frozen peas and carrots.