To them, it seemed like a prenuptial agreement that couples sign before marriage to “plan” for their eventual break-up, or “break-down” of the Heating and A/C unit
My parents met in the middle of the Great Depression, got married, and began raising a family that eventually included me. For about 40 years they had to watch every penny until all of us kids were grown. When our father retired, they switched roles as our mother worked and Dad took over the domestic chores. Admittedly, her new “job” was easier with no kids, but she made quite the “house-wife” as she l earned to cook and l earned how to deal with a stressed-out wife new to the modern workplace. They invested the extra money that Dad earned over her short job and they lived quite comfortably for the rest of their lives. I am not jealous of their “Norman Rockwell” type of life. What I envy is that they never once thought of leaving each other while in their years together. Dad admitted she thought of homicide a few times, but divorce was not an option. I guess their secret was that they had no central Heating and A/C idea in their house. We had a coal stoker heating system and a few window A/C units, but they never had that big metal contraption. It was not the mechanical troubles that kept them from installing a central Heating and A/C system, it was the fear of getting into a long-term repair contract that they feared. To them, it seemed like a prenuptial agreement that couples sign before marriage to “plan” for their eventual break-up, or “break-down” of the Heating and A/C unit. I tried to explain that choosing a qualified Heating and A/C contractor was like choosing a fiance and that not all repair agreements are equal. She just laughed and said she didn’t need to read the “fine print” with Dad and that she was not going to do it with any Heating and A/C prenuptial.
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