I cannot relate to this. I buy a bag of unripe (hard) avocados every 3 days or so from Costco, and they take about 2 to 5 days to ripen on the countertop, and then I put them in the fridge and they are good for another 5 days.
This is my method too. I check them once a day and once they are just a little soft and most of the green is gone, I pop them in the fridge and they are ripe for about a week.
