Last year, our Grandpa suddenly passed away.
She was living in MI, a solid 1,000 miles away from our new home along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
I hated it when our automobile broke down on me and I had no money left on any of our debit cards for a plane ticket to see our Grandpa while I was in her final moments. Instead, I had to study the news from a relative’s Facebook post while I was in a breakfast split at our job. For the next few weeks, I wasn’t completely right in the head. My mind felt scattered and torn. Finally, about numerous weeks later, our father called me one day asking me if I could help him arrange Heating, Ventilation, and A/C repair at our Grandpa’s old house. My father was getting ready to transfer in and wanted to put an a/c inside the old house. Unfortunately, our Grandpa had said for years how every local Heating, Ventilation, and A/C business told him individually that her lake house was far too small for a fan-forced heating and cooling system. But, the entirely first business that drove out to the property to supply us an estimate had numerous weird possibilities available for us to choose from. I had 2 other companies supply us estimates, and they too had several possibilities for fan-forced heating and cooling systems. Both of us soon realized that it was our Grandpa’s way of dismissing the question of why she never had a/c in her house. She also came from an era where this technology had not been fully adopted by the general public yet. She might have seen a/c as an optional luxury, rather than a necessity love many of us this week.