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This was not what I expected from an HVAC technician.
Whenever I called the HVAC company, I was used to the technician showing up and making all repairs that were needed. There was never an argument, whether it was the furnace or the air conditioning unit. Last month, I had the HVAC technician at the house, and I wanted my furnace repaired. He took one […]
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He told me to ignore the cold, and I’d be warmer.
My dad always had a way to stop something else. When I broke my ankle, he asked if I wanted him to bite my finger. I said no, but he insisted it would take my mind off the pain in my ankle if he bit my finger off. I knew he was joking, but it […]
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We couldn't find the furnace in the house.
My sister and I went to every Open House we came upon over the weekend. We would look at different things in the house, and make notes. We knew what we wanted and what we didn’t want in a house. I don’t think we ever signed the guest book, because we were too young to […]
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The house didn’t have an HVAC system.
My husband and I went to an auction last week. It was an old farmhouse, and everything had to go, including the house. They wanted any prospective homebuyers to bring paperwork from the bank, saying how much the preapproval loan was for, toward the purchase of the house. The owners wanted to make sure the […]
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The mine became eerily cold and dark as we descended.
I had never been on a mine tour until my kids were in school. I was the bus driver that took the tour to the local coal mine museum. Along with having a picnic lunch on an old train, and walking through the museum, we got to take a ride into the mine. I remembered […]
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Our chocolate melted in the heat.
We would buy ice cream I thought I would be nice and take some chocolate bars home to my brother when I was on my way home from school. I knew what his favorite chocolate was, and I could only buy it at a chocolatier that was ten miles from school, but almost thirty miles […]
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I wanted a whole home air purification system.
Even before COVID-19 was a thing, I had been trying to talk my husband into having a whole-home air purification system installed in the house. He could never understand how he could justify the cost of an air purification system. He said it was an extra air filter in the system. If they could put […]
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She told me it was a portable, personal air conditioner.
My daughter showed up at the house last week with a water bottle that had a fan attached. She gave one to me and one to her little sister. I must have had a look of skepticism on my face, because she turned to me and asked, what? She grabbed the water bottle and told […]
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If I cry, will you turn the air conditioner on?
Although my kid is quite the little actress, I’ve seen her have tantrums that would make a grown woman fall to her knees. When I don’t respond to her tantrum, she gets up and shrugs, as if to say that she tried and would try again later, even though she knows it won’t work. My […]