Raulandpinboy
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So my morning starts out like this. Florida decided to for the first time in over 1000 years to drop its temperatures to below freezing, even though I worked out a deal with God never for it to happen again.
Now mind you the temperature dropped just as Lauri and Mathew got here coincidence?? Things that make you go Hmmmmmm.
So anyway I got up this morning surrounded by animals 3 cats 1 dog, looked at clock and it was 6:30am so I figured I couldn't move anyway so I'll just sleep another 15 minutes. So off I go to snooze land, but not realizing that it was 50 some degrees outside the blanket, the alarm clock was frozen and my 15 minutes turned into 1 and ½ hours.
So now its 8:00am and I should be at work but I'm still in bed, I jump out and run into the bathroom to hit the shower, but since I have tile in my bathroom, I got a little concerned since my feet were now frozen to the floor.
I was able to reach the shower by stretching, and got the water turned on I figured the hot water would melt the ice and my feet would be free.
15 minutes later no hot water, yet it's trying to get here but the cold surrounding the pipes is cooling it down to quickly. Anyway 30 minutes later feet free shower done I'm on my way to work.
Arrive at work phone rings its Donna, she took the dog outside and noticed our air-conditioning unit was on fire and she used the garden hose to put it out. Well isn't that special.
I tell her to call the company that installed it and get them out to look at it, I immediately drive home thinking, well maybe I can use the handy mans secret weapon (Duct tape) and fix it up a little.
I arrive home to the mass destruction that I thought awaited me, sure enough I find hoses ladder and a fireman's uniform tossed around the unit. Now before you all panic and figure Donna left me for a fireman, that was not the case all this stuff is Donna's ever since the New York 9-11 incident, she felt a special need to bond with the fire and police departments, so me being a good husband bought her a few things to help her connect with inner police and firewoman inside.
Inside I find Donna still wearing the fireman's helmet, and drinking coffee. I asked if she called the air-conditioning company, and got that no not before my coffee look.
For those that know Donna nothing happens in her world until she has her coffee, fire or no fire, the dog is just one of the lucky few who gets attention, plus if you don't let him out he just stands there and will pee on the floor, this is his motivational thing it works for him, it didn't work for me so more power to him.
I figure I'll go look at the unit and see if I can fix the damage, so with duct tape in hand I go look and turn the unit on, instantly the fan does not move and I see and smell smoke, so doing what any able bodied engineer could do I screamed like a little girl and shut the breaker off.
I went inside while it was still warm, and called the air-conditioning company. The nice girl on the phone asked what the problem was and I explained the unit caught fire and was now not working, she immediately asks "now you didn't turn it back on or try to fix it did you" Of course not I said hiding my duct tape and crossing my fingers. Well it will take two days, or we can do an emergency call today.
Oooooooo what's the price difference I asked, regular call $49.00 emergency call $1.4 million dollars since Florida was frozen, and heating unit that have never been used, are being used for the first time and catching on fire. Well duh I think to myself, okay go for two days.
Off I go to tell Donna the bad news, uhm pookey bear its going to be two days before they get here. (The next 5-minutes of conversation between Donna and me cannot be repeated on the Dis, the filters will block it all).
Off I go to get 1.4 million dollars for an emergency call, just then the phone rings, it's the air-conditioning company they have a tech down the street and can be there in 2 minutes if that's okay. Hesitantly I ask in a beaten mans voice, will this be considered a regular call? Oh yes sir you asked to wait and just got lucky, so it's a regular call.
Woo Hoo I shout, I'm lucky Why am I so happy, my heat pump is sitting in a pool of water and singed.
Anyway 5 minutes later the tech arrives looks around at all the equipment asked what happened, so I tell him about the smoke the fire and stuff, did you try to fix it he asks? As I hide my duct tape again, of course not I say and then it happened.
Well there's nothing wrong with your unit, it's a heat pump when it gets cold enough the unit reverses itself shuts off the fan reverses the freon and goes into a defrost mode it creates a bunch of smoke and then after 5 minutes it restarts and its fine.
Don't feel stupid he says you are my tenth call this morning for the exact same thing (well I feel better)
So he turns on the power, sure enough smoke, and more smoke then it all stops the unit turns on, and all is well. $49.00 later he's in his truck I'm just sitting there wondering what just happened.
Oh well at least Donna got to play firewoman. As for me I going back to bed this day has I'm done written all over it.
But I'll be at the Contemporary tonight at 7:00pm what could go wrong there, nothing it's a happy place a shameless plug.
Now mind you the temperature dropped just as Lauri and Mathew got here coincidence?? Things that make you go Hmmmmmm.
So anyway I got up this morning surrounded by animals 3 cats 1 dog, looked at clock and it was 6:30am so I figured I couldn't move anyway so I'll just sleep another 15 minutes. So off I go to snooze land, but not realizing that it was 50 some degrees outside the blanket, the alarm clock was frozen and my 15 minutes turned into 1 and ½ hours.
So now its 8:00am and I should be at work but I'm still in bed, I jump out and run into the bathroom to hit the shower, but since I have tile in my bathroom, I got a little concerned since my feet were now frozen to the floor.
I was able to reach the shower by stretching, and got the water turned on I figured the hot water would melt the ice and my feet would be free.
15 minutes later no hot water, yet it's trying to get here but the cold surrounding the pipes is cooling it down to quickly. Anyway 30 minutes later feet free shower done I'm on my way to work.
Arrive at work phone rings its Donna, she took the dog outside and noticed our air-conditioning unit was on fire and she used the garden hose to put it out. Well isn't that special.
I tell her to call the company that installed it and get them out to look at it, I immediately drive home thinking, well maybe I can use the handy mans secret weapon (Duct tape) and fix it up a little.
I arrive home to the mass destruction that I thought awaited me, sure enough I find hoses ladder and a fireman's uniform tossed around the unit. Now before you all panic and figure Donna left me for a fireman, that was not the case all this stuff is Donna's ever since the New York 9-11 incident, she felt a special need to bond with the fire and police departments, so me being a good husband bought her a few things to help her connect with inner police and firewoman inside.
Inside I find Donna still wearing the fireman's helmet, and drinking coffee. I asked if she called the air-conditioning company, and got that no not before my coffee look.
For those that know Donna nothing happens in her world until she has her coffee, fire or no fire, the dog is just one of the lucky few who gets attention, plus if you don't let him out he just stands there and will pee on the floor, this is his motivational thing it works for him, it didn't work for me so more power to him.
I figure I'll go look at the unit and see if I can fix the damage, so with duct tape in hand I go look and turn the unit on, instantly the fan does not move and I see and smell smoke, so doing what any able bodied engineer could do I screamed like a little girl and shut the breaker off.
I went inside while it was still warm, and called the air-conditioning company. The nice girl on the phone asked what the problem was and I explained the unit caught fire and was now not working, she immediately asks "now you didn't turn it back on or try to fix it did you" Of course not I said hiding my duct tape and crossing my fingers. Well it will take two days, or we can do an emergency call today.
Oooooooo what's the price difference I asked, regular call $49.00 emergency call $1.4 million dollars since Florida was frozen, and heating unit that have never been used, are being used for the first time and catching on fire. Well duh I think to myself, okay go for two days.
Off I go to tell Donna the bad news, uhm pookey bear its going to be two days before they get here. (The next 5-minutes of conversation between Donna and me cannot be repeated on the Dis, the filters will block it all).
Off I go to get 1.4 million dollars for an emergency call, just then the phone rings, it's the air-conditioning company they have a tech down the street and can be there in 2 minutes if that's okay. Hesitantly I ask in a beaten mans voice, will this be considered a regular call? Oh yes sir you asked to wait and just got lucky, so it's a regular call.
Woo Hoo I shout, I'm lucky Why am I so happy, my heat pump is sitting in a pool of water and singed.
Anyway 5 minutes later the tech arrives looks around at all the equipment asked what happened, so I tell him about the smoke the fire and stuff, did you try to fix it he asks? As I hide my duct tape again, of course not I say and then it happened.
Well there's nothing wrong with your unit, it's a heat pump when it gets cold enough the unit reverses itself shuts off the fan reverses the freon and goes into a defrost mode it creates a bunch of smoke and then after 5 minutes it restarts and its fine.
Don't feel stupid he says you are my tenth call this morning for the exact same thing (well I feel better)
So he turns on the power, sure enough smoke, and more smoke then it all stops the unit turns on, and all is well. $49.00 later he's in his truck I'm just sitting there wondering what just happened.
Oh well at least Donna got to play firewoman. As for me I going back to bed this day has I'm done written all over it.
But I'll be at the Contemporary tonight at 7:00pm what could go wrong there, nothing it's a happy place a shameless plug.
