I feel like my family is cursed when it comes to furnaces.
We have moved around a lot because my dad is in the military, and we have lived in a lot of houses.
In every house, it seems that we have had trouble with the furnace. The strange part is that the furnaces in the houses that we have lived in aren’t ancient or in bad shape. Most of these furnaces still had a lot of life left in them, but they seemed to break down whenever we moved in. I can remember the first time the furnace stopped working in our house. We were just small kids, and we had to huddle in our mom’s bed as my dad worked on the furnace for hours. It is a misconception that people in the military are rich, and my dad couldn’t afford to pay an HVAC technician to fix our furnace. By the time he got our furnace running again, he only had a few hours before he had to drive to work. This continued happening every few weeks, and my dad began growing frustrated with the furnace in that house. When he was offered a different position at a different location, he accepted and made sure to purchase a house with a nicer furnace. However, we quickly discovered that we were going to have the same trouble with our new furnace. I honestly hope that my dad’s bad luck with furnaces doesn’t pass on to me, because I have no idea how to fix furnaces like my dad.