A week after an AC guy did his 6 month checkup and said things were fine with my AC unit, my AC unit decided it didn't have to listen to what AC guys say, and was through cooling my house.
After a few calls, some AC repair men said they were going to come give me a new unit (which is awesome, because my old one was, well, very old and loud), but they were busy this week so it would take like 4 days before I could have AC again.
Enter what I like to call: "Four days of wondering how the hell anyone lived so close to the equator without air conditioning"
I had to sit with a fan literally a foot away from me on full blast to even come close to being relatively comfortable.
Anyway, the AC guys came, finally, last Monday. I left for class while they were working on it and, when I got out of class, I noticed I had a voice mail which went a little something like this (in an angry, old man, southern accent):
"Travis, you need to give the utilities people a call, your damn power went out! We can't do anything until they turn it back on. Give me a call when you get this"
In the two years I've lived in this house I've never not paid my electric bill on time. Of all the fucking months to not pay, and of all the fucking days to get it shut off...
I paid right away, but it still took the utilities people around 30 hours after that to turn my power back on. When I called the power company (for the second time) and asked what was taking so long, they said it was due to what they called a "glitch in the computer", which is what I call "a bullshit excuse people use when they fuck up and don't want to take responsibility".
Anyway, they eventually turned it back on, and the AC guys eventually came back and installed a new (and quiet!) air conditioner.
They even gave me a new thermostat which gives a digital read-out of the temperature in my house. Here is what it had to say:
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| 94 degrees!! |
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