I heard my phone start ringing and I looked to see who was calling.
It was my cousin again, probably complaining about the south as usual.
That has become a bit of a routine, my cousin calling to complain about the heat. Not really sure what to tell her, she is the one who decided to move down there to begin with, despite my best efforts to warn her. But my cousin was always obsessed with the white sand beaches and sunny days and didn’t hear me. However, what she didn’t take into account was the fact that the south is often very, very hot. The same way that the north is often pretty cold. When I picked up the phone, sure enough, she started to tell me the latest incident. Apparently the air conditioning system, which was still fairly new, broke down today. She told me about how she had to call a HVAC worker out to come and look at it and repair it. And then she was complaining about how the HVAC system was awful, and didn’t keep her home cool enough and it shouldn’t have broken down and so forth. I asked her some general HVAC maintenance questions to see how well she took care of the cooling unit, only to find out that she didn’t take care of it at all. No wonder it broke down so early. I tried to give her some HVAC tune up tips, but she wasn’t listening and continued to complain. Some people just can’t be helped.