Last week, my dad hired a new HVAC technician for the company. She had been an HVAC technician for five years and had recently moved into the area. She said she wasn’t ready to give up working, and was hoping we would hire her. My dad only cared about her qualifications and started asking her questions about the job. From […]
They put my mother in charge of training me.
I was excited to go to HVAC technical school. My father had promised me a position in his HVAC company if I came out in the top ten percent of my class. He said he would put his best HVAC technician in charge of my training. This excited me even more. I knew most of his HVAC technicians, but he […]
All I heard was someone asking if there was anyone home?
The HVAC technician told me he had seen the air conditioning unit when he came in, so he would just let himself out and do his job. I was in the laundry room trying to catch up on my laundry when I heard someone asking if there was anyone home? I was half afraid to answer back, since I don’t […]
I marked the day on the calendar as a holiday.
If there is one thing that really irks me, it is people who are never on time. My daughter always adds ish on her arrival time. We’ll be there around five-ish. Dinner will be between 5 and six-ish. This may be okay when you’re visiting people, but it is not okay in work. If you are scheduled to be at […]
It was take your child to work day; not take your parent to work.
For the first time in a year, dad remembered being an HVAC technician and that I was his son Ever since my dad had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, my brother and I have been keeping an eye on him to give mom a break. Once a week, my brother and I would take a day each, and watch dad for […]
Not all screams are because of an emergency.
I remember how my mom used to tell us that unless we were bleeding or bones sticking through the skin, we should not be screaming. Someone needs to be dead, dying, being abducted or injured to elicit screaming. Last week, we had an HVAC technician at the house. He was repairing the furnace, so we didn’t need to worry about […]
I could've sworn he was a model and not an HVAC technician.
When I showed up at the HVAC company for work, the man who was coming out took me aback. He reminded of a model and he had just walked off the pages of Vogue. He was tall and slim and his face was angelic. I hoped he would talk to me, but then I was afraid his voice wouldn’t match […]
It must've really hurt when you stood up underneath the ductwork.
My brother came home from work the other day with six stitches in his forehead and a black eye. Although I knew he was hurting, I wanted to know what happened. When he told me he stood up underneath the ductwork, I had to laugh. My brother was 6’6” tall, and he knew better than to stand up underneath the […]
A forgotten cooling system install
Others slept to the appealing sounds of the night plus woke up to the chirping of doves. Ours was the noise of a heating plus cooling system install. In recent weeks, the noise had advanced from being annoying to frustrating. I had to find time in our deranged work schedule to be available while I was in the local repair […]
A tribute to our old cooling system install
It was one of those moments where I wished for a tailor-made cooling system care program for our cooling system install. Every cooling system care I came across was cookie-cutter. Didn’t these local repair providers not realize that some of our unit was special. I had patched it up so much you would think I had salvaged it from a […]