A few weeks ago, our well-meaning partner Luke decided that he was going to try and maintain our poor broken central air conditioning component himself.
He’s not unquestionably that handy of a modern guy, so it wasn’t the best system that he had ever had.
I tried to tell him many times to just forget about doing it himself and just call our local heating and cooling company instead, but he’s just a little bit stubborn. Once Luke gets something into his head, he’s going to do it or die trying. Well, this time, he actually nearly did kill himself! He was messing around with the central cooling system component and clearly he forgot to turn the power off before he touched a certain part of the cooling system unit that was full of charge. He ended up shocking himself and causing sparks to fly and the breakers to rapidly flip! That’s when I put our foot down and told him that there was no goddamn way that I was going to let him keep messing around like an ameteur with our HVAC system. Not only was he going to tear up our entire heating and cooling system, but he was also going to end up seriously injuring himself or even worse. I was so mad at him for being so stubborn that I easily could have smacked him. Of course, I didn’t. Instead, I called the local HVAC company and quickly made an appointment. When Mike saw the HVAC truck in the driveway later that day, I know he finally figured out that he needed to accept defeat.