Foods for thought

Related topic which has always bugged me since I was a child in the 1940s.

Characters open the refrigerator and then leave the door open while talking or telephoning. I cannot concentrate on the film but am muttering "Shit the friggin' fridge door!"

This horrified me as a child. We were the only family in our street to have a 'fridge (not much larger than a TV set) and it was treated like a holy shrine, hence my phobia.

Nothing to do with films but where I now live in the Caribbean the locals will not open the fridge while cooking or soon after coming in out of the blazing sun as they think the contrast between hot and cold would be too much for your heart and shorten your life. I have heard that even from relatively educated/sophisticated people.