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God Bless William Carrier
May. 30th, 2021 06:40 amThe AC guy finally made it out here around 9:30 last night. I feel for the guy - he's the weekend on-call and happened to apparently draw both Memorial Day weekend, and at the same time apparently people are losing their minds. He told Fox he moved us up ahead of three other calls because Fox had been really nice whenever they talked. Once when we said he was headed our way Fox actually texted him to make sure he was okay and didn't need a tow or something. It's the time of year when our road is extra-soft and sandy, so it's easy for bigger vehicles to get stuck.
Anyway, the fix was relatively easy, apparently a couple of blown capacitors. He had cleaned up and gone by 10:30 to go handle the people who were shrieking and cursing.
I think Fox and I have just been in his position with different kinds of jobs before. You plan to have a certain thing done, but then start running into problems, you get behind, and you're working on it as hard as you can. And yelling has never made a damaged compressor start running again, it takes the amount of time it takes, you know? Or like a stupid convo I once had on the subject, "This will take about an hour to run." And then the person kept asking, "So when's this thing done?" "An hour. It's been five minutes. It should be done at eight." And later, "Any way you could speed this up?" OMG, people like this make life awful for everyone around them and they don't seem to have any self-awareness, period.
ANYWAY. We now have air conditioning again. I could have gone without another couple of nights so long as I can put a box fan in the window, but it's only May and I don't exactly want to have the "hurricane experience" this early in the season. Sleeping in the unrelenting heat, eating tuna straight out of a pouch, and sweating. Yay.
So I was also up until after 11, which is unusual for me anymore, since I normally go to bed with the proverbial chickens, LOL.
Anyway, the fix was relatively easy, apparently a couple of blown capacitors. He had cleaned up and gone by 10:30 to go handle the people who were shrieking and cursing.
I think Fox and I have just been in his position with different kinds of jobs before. You plan to have a certain thing done, but then start running into problems, you get behind, and you're working on it as hard as you can. And yelling has never made a damaged compressor start running again, it takes the amount of time it takes, you know? Or like a stupid convo I once had on the subject, "This will take about an hour to run." And then the person kept asking, "So when's this thing done?" "An hour. It's been five minutes. It should be done at eight." And later, "Any way you could speed this up?" OMG, people like this make life awful for everyone around them and they don't seem to have any self-awareness, period.
ANYWAY. We now have air conditioning again. I could have gone without another couple of nights so long as I can put a box fan in the window, but it's only May and I don't exactly want to have the "hurricane experience" this early in the season. Sleeping in the unrelenting heat, eating tuna straight out of a pouch, and sweating. Yay.
So I was also up until after 11, which is unusual for me anymore, since I normally go to bed with the proverbial chickens, LOL.
