One of our pet-peeves is when I use our God-given right to complain about something and the lady I’m talking to responds by saying, “You guess you have problems!”; Instead of getting some well- earned pity for myself, I’m forced to listen to someone else’s tale of woe as I nod our head and mutter, “Oh, I understand”, a few dozen times.
I admit I am always complaining about our central Heating and A/C idea after I allowed our recently paroled sibling-in-law to install it a few years ago.
It has caused me nothing but problems and I am not shy about letting anyone within earshot know how I suffer, however that all changed when I saw the film Apollo 13 and witnessed the accounts of several astronauts who absolutely had a big Heating and A/C issue. They were about 200,000 miles from the Earth, still headed toward the moon and there were not enough air scrubbers to get them back home, and at the time, they did not even know if the moon’s gravity would be able to catapult them toward Earth… My reaction would have been to curl up in the fetal position in a corner of the lunar module but these several brave gentlemen used duct tape, spare parts, and advice from NASA to solve the issue and get condo safely. I finally did have an Heating and A/C professional get our Heating and A/C idea laboring well so I no longer have anything to complain about. I also keep it well serviced with twice a year professional cleaning. The only thing that remains in need of a “scrubbing” in our cabin is our sibling-in-law who seems to be reliving some nostalgic times spent in the county jail.