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When we called for HVAC service, I didn’t expect to also get a friend.

I had explained what was going on with the furnace and asked how long it would take for an appointment.

Two hours later, the HVAC service van was pulling into the driveway. When a woman got out of the service van, I thought she looked familiar. She walked into the house and showed me her HVAC ID badge. Once the furnace was repaired, we sat down to look at the bill, and I remembered where I saw her. I had gone to school with the HVAC technician, and had a crush on her. We sat there and were discussing the bill, when she smiled. She remembered me, and we started talking. An hour later, I reminded her she probably had other HVAC systems to work on, and I had to go to work. She apologized for taking up my time, but that wasn’t the problem. I really did need to go to work, and I didn’t want her to lose her job. I asked if she wanted to come over for dinner the next night. It was a weekend, and if she had off, we could sit and chat all we wanted. It felt odd having a date with an HVAC technician, but it wasn’t really a date. Was it? I had to think about whether I still wanted to date her, or if it was just someone I knew reconnecting. When she showed up for dinner, she was dressed like the girl I knew, and there was nothing to say she was an HVAC technician, except for her comment about how lovely the air quality was in my home.

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In one week, I found out I could survive with space heaters and without the boyfriend, and my so-called friend

I thought that I could always count on my best friend if I was in a pinch. I found out just how wrong I was last week. The furnace broke in my apartment building, and I called to see if I could stay with her until the furnace was repaired. She said it wasn’t a good time for her, and I knew she was hedging. I told her I could sleep on the couch if the spare room was in use. It would only be for a couple of days, and she told me no. I couldn’t believe she wouldn’t let me stay when the furnace was broken. Three days later, I found out what was going on. My boyfriend called and told me he was breaking up with me. He wanted someone who would spend the night, and be with him when he needed someone. I wasn’t fulfilling all his needs. Two hours later, I was numb, and my friend was calling. She told me she was now dating my boyfriend, and that was why she couldn’t let me stay there when the furnace broke. He was living in her apartment with her. I hung up on her, and refused to take her phone calls. In one week, I found out I could survive with space heaters and without the boyfriend, and my so-called friend. I didn’t need anyone or anything but myself and my ingenuity. My mother wasn’t happy when she found out I didn’t come stay with her when the furnace broke. Mom lived so far away from where I worked, that it wouldn’t have been convenient for me, and space heaters were being sold just two blocks away.

 

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Last week, I called the HVAC company to have my furnace inspected.

I was sure there was something wrong, but I wasn’t sure what.

The HVAC technician showed up at 11:30, and he was downstairs working on the furnace. He was only down there about fifteen minutes, and I felt bad that he had to work through lunch. I walked down the steps to see if he would like a cup of coffee and a sandwich. He was sitting on a small stool that was near the furnace, and eating his lunch. I asked him if he would like to come upstairs and eat, where it was clean. I was going to ask if he wanted to wash his hands, but he refused. He said he was eating while he was working on the furnace, and he would be done shortly. He didn’t want to hold me up much longer. I was upset that he felt it necessary to take a bite and chew while he was working. He said it was his job, and he was used to it. He would take ten minutes off his time, for the time it took to bite and drink. I was devastated and wondered how many times the HVAC technician had gotten in trouble by his customers, for eating on the job. I wasn’t that mean, and I felt sorry for him. I had a cup of coffee, and another sandwich on the table, when he finally finished working on the furnace. He thanked me and said I didn’t need to do it, but he drank his coffee and downed his sandwich while taking care of the bill. For service fees; he marked them as no charge.

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Last week, the HVAC technician arrived with parts for my furnace and he was going to finally repair it.

When he got to the basement, he started yelling at the dog while trying to work on the furnace. I ran to the door and yelled for Bowser to come upstairs, but he wasn’t listening. When I got downstairs, Bowser had the HVAC technician cornered and I could hear him snarling. As I yanked on Bowser to get him away, the HVAC technician was asking if I had forgotten to put the dog away before he arrived. I hadn’t forgotten. I thought Bowser would be okay now that he knew the HVAC technician. When I had Bowser under control, the HVAC technician started packing up his tools. I wanted to know where he was going. He showed me the bite on his leg, and said that once he got it checked out, someone else would be back to make the repairs. I was dumbfounded, not so much that he was leaving, but that he wouldn’t come back. I was sure Bowser didn’t mean to bite him, and he was probably just playing. Later that day, the HVAC company called and told me the HVAC technician was fine, but he needed to have a tetanus shot. They would be sending me the bill for his hospital visit, and animal control would be coming to the house. I was sorry the HVAC technician got bit, but he was just playing. The HVAC company owner told me that playing could get rough, but the technician had videoed the snarling and how the dog had attacked him, was not playing.

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There was an HVAC technician at our house last week.

He was an older gentleman, so I was sure he knew his job well.

He looked like he may have been on the job for decades, and I doubted if there was anything he hadn’t seen, but I was wrong. He showed up to work on my furnace, and I showed him where the furnace room was. He was only downstairs for about five minutes, when I heard him scream. I was sure he had to have been hurt. I ran downstairs, and the man was white-faced. He couldn’t move or breathe properly. When I asked him what was wrong, he only looked down. Wrapped around his leg was my pet snake. He was almost ten feet long, but he was docile. He was used to wrapping around our legs for the warmth. I guessed the HVAC technician wasn’t used to having snakes around him. He was petrified, and I didn’t know what to do. Sarah wouldn’t let his leg loose, and the HVAC technician was beginning to hyperventilate and sweat profusely. I had to get Sarah away from him, but she wasn’t listening. I called 911 and told them what our emergency was. Five minutes later, the ambulance was there along with animal control. They released the HVAC technician from Sarah, and got him on a gurney. The ambulance attendant told me that the next time someone came to the house, I had to have all pets put away, and that included snakes. Sarah had caused the HVAC technician to have a heart attack.

 

 

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I heard the HVAC technician talking when he was in the basement.

He was talking so loudly that I could hear him, but I didn’t understand what he was saying.

I opened the door, and asked him to repeat what he was saying. The HVAC tech told me he was talking to his wife, and he apologized for being so loud. It took him an hour to repair the furnace, and I wondered how much of that time was taken up with his conversation. When he sat down to explain the bill to me, his phone rang again. He started talking loudly and told the person, he had already explained why he couldn’t talk to her. He told her he was at work, and he couldn’t take time to talk on the phone. He was with his customer and he would call when he got into the HVAC service van. I heard her yelling at him, and I reached for the phone. I knew I shouldn’t have, but I told her I was the HVAC customer. I had been without heating for several days, and her husband, boyfriend, or whatever; had been her working on my furnace while talking to her. If she kept harassing him while working, he would lose his job. If my furnace wasn’t correctly repaired, I would call the HVAC company and it would be her fault if he lost his job. She apologized and hung up the phone. I don’t know if she called him back, but the HVAC technician smiled and told me thank you, because she called him everyday, knowing he was working.

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