I joined an elite group of HVAC technicians last week.
I joined an HVAC company that had been owned by the same family for over sixty years.
I found out that nearly all the HVAC technicians in the company were related in some way. I was one of the few non-related HVAC technicians they hired. I wasn’t sure why they hired me, but I was glad they did. They taught things about HVAC systems that I hadn’t learned in school. Not only did I get acquainted with newer HVAC equipment, but they let me work on older stuff that could have been around in the nineteenth century. They said that if I wanted to work with them; I had to work on anything that came along without needing to be babysat. I was working there for almost a year, when a new HVAC technician was hired. She was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen, and I was tongue-tied whenever I saw her. She laughed at my lack of words and actually goaded me into talking to her. When all I could get out was yes or no, she laughed even harder. She said she was going to tell her daddy they had hired a mute. I stumbled out a few more words. I looked at her in her HVAC uniform and asked if she was for real? She pinched herself and replied with a simple yes. It was at that moment that I knew I was falling in love with the new HVAC technician. She just didn’t yet know she was falling for me.