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For the last two weeks, the school had been reminding us of the job fair they were holding for the juniors and seniors.

Some ‌people at the job fair were going to be there looking for people to hire for summer jobs.

There would also be some people there talking about the career opportunities they offered. I was sure that along with some of the local colleges, we would find some of the military recruiters amongst them. I wasn’t expecting to see the local HVAC company. They were trying to encourage some ‌students to become HVAC technicians. I also didn’t expect that the HVAC techs would push for people to come to their booth. It was the same tactics the men at the circus would use when trying to sell popcorn. Their antics made the HVAC company look unappealing. When I got home from school that afternoon, I was telling my mom about the HVAC techs. When I told her they were calling out to students like a circus barker would to engage with circus goers, she got upset. The next thing I knew, mom was on the telephone talking to dad. I didn’t know any of the new HVAC technicians at dad’s company, so I never put two and two together until I heard mom on the phone with him. She was telling him all about the antics of the two new HVAC techs he had sent to the job fair. From the look on her face when she hung up, I’m not sure whether those HVAC technicians were going to have a job, but I was sure that dad was going to be speaking to them and not so nice.

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I think the thing I remember my grandfather for the most, was his height.

He always seemed like a giant and I was a little girl, but it seemed the taller I got, the shorter he became.

The last time I saw grandpa, I bent over to give him a hug and tell him I loved him. When grandpa passed, grandma pulled out all these amazing pictures of her and him. I came across a picture of her standing next to him in his army uniform. And then I came across a picture of grandpa in a uniform that I didn’t recognize. I asked grandma what uniform that was, and she told me it was his uniform for the HVAC company. I was taken aback. Grandpa stood with four other men, and he was the tallest. To realize grandpa had once been almost 6 foot tall, and an HVAC technician, had my mind boggled. Grandma said he was the most handsome HVAC tech in the entire company. I asked her when he decided he wanted to become an HVAC technician, and she told me he had taken up the profession even before she met him. Grandpa was an HVAC tech long before people knew it was a necessity. When grandpa was doing air conditioning, it was only for the people who either owned big companies, or had a lot of money. The common person couldn’t afford to have a modern heating and air conditioning system. Just the way grandma talked about grandpa, made me proud to know he was my grandfather and one of the original HVAC technicians.

 

 

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Last week, my husband and I were watching the HVAC technicians install our new HVAC system.

For two years, we had been noticing a big reduction in the amount of air conditioning that we were getting into our house.

We were getting less AC, less airflow, and more noise coming from the AC unit. Our furnace seemed to run a lot longer, to get the same amount of heat that we got in previous years. When we talked to the HVAC company, they went back through their records and told us that our HVAC system was indeed getting ready to expire since it was over 20 years old. As my husband sat and watched them doing the installation, he turned to me and asked if I remembered the last time the two of us had tried to install an AC unit? That was long before we had our first central HVAC system. We had bought a huge window air conditioning unit that the store clerk had convinced us would cool our entire house. We struggled, trying to get the air conditioning unit out of the box. We struggled to get the AC unit up onto the windowsill. We struggled to get the air conditioning unit settled into the window. After all the struggling, we had to struggle to take the AC unit back out of the window and place it back into the box. Although the AC unit probably could have cooled our entire main floor, we didn’t have a window in the house that the AC unit would fit into.

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My son called me at work the other day to tell me that the air conditioning unit was broken. He didn’t tell me what was wrong with it, or if I needed to pick up a new window air conditioning unit. He just told me that the air conditioning unit was broken. I was in the middle of the meeting, so I didn’t even think to call him back to find out what was going on. When I got to the house, I realized that when he said the AC unit was broken he met it was broken. The AC unit had not just quit running, but it somehow made its way out of the dining-room window and down onto the concrete. I told him to get his brother and get in the car, and we were heading to the home center. On the way to the home center to buy a new AC unit, I asked questions. I asked them if they had any idea how the air conditioner had got from the window down onto the concrete. Neither of them said a word, but there was a lot of flipping around to make sure they were making eye contact. Once again, I directed the question to them about how the air conditioning unit got down on the concrete. I let them know ‌I knew that an air conditioning unit couldn’t just suddenly let loose from a window, nor could it propel itself from the window onto the concrete. This made them chuckle, but they fessed up and said it was all their fault. I told them that after buying the AC unit, we could see just how much fault it really was when I gave them the bill.

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