Ed shook his head and I thought he was going to walk away
My husband Ed got to our condo just as I was ripping into the family room air conditioner unit. When Ed asked what I was doing; I asked Ed what he thought I was doing. Ed’s pithy retort was to tell me I was doing something I had promised I wouldn’t do. Ed asked me how several air conditioners I had already broken. I didn’t know how several air conditioners I broke, but this was not going to be another one of them. I wasn’t working on it to repair it. I was only cleaning the air filters in the air conditioner so Ed and I could have some cleaner air in our family room. Ed threw his hands up and walked out of the family room before I could tell Ed I was just cleaning it. When I got to the family room, Ed was looking through the website for the condo center. I realized Ed was looking for a modern air conditioner component for the family room. I told Ed he would be wasting his money, because the AC component was already running, and it was running quietly now. Ed didn’t know I was right and ran upstairs to check for herself. Ed wanted to know if I had traded one of the air conditioner units in one of the upstairs rooms, for this one. I told Ed I was just cleaning it. Ed shook his head and I thought he was going to walk away. Instead, Ed apologized for not giving me any credit, but he also reminded me it wouldn’t be the first air conditioner component that I had broken, even while cleaning.