Any time my mom calls the office, I know that it’s real.
And it scares me to be quite honest.
It’s only been about a year since they moved down here. It took plenty of pleading and cajoling from my wife and I to get them to leave their big house to move to a condo near us. But it was time as they are at an age where simpler is much more manageable. The condo they bought came with new HVAC equipment. And this stuff is the latest in residential HVAC. It’s got all the new HVAC technology as well. The smart thermostat is something that just takes care of the whole deal. It’s like the brain of the heating and cooling. My folks are adapting to this new situation but it hasn’t been easy. Dad doesn’t even have a garage he can go tinker with stuff anymore. But then again, his productive tinkering days are behind him. And that leads me to my mom calling the office. We normally just text so when she calls, I’m on it. Mom told me, as calmly as she could, that I might want to get over to their place because dad had decided to tweak the HVAC equipment. This was indeed alarming and she was so right to call me at the office. I hustled over there while my wife met me with the HVAC warranty on their new HVAC unit. Dad was just getting ready to take the front panel off the air handler so I caught him right in time. I took the warranty from my wife and started reading the part about the warranty being void if dad continued. That stopped him cold.