Here I was, sitting in my easy chair, taking it easy. When, all of a sudden, that means no warning, the air conditioner beeped and turned off. I opened my eyes and saw the ceiling fan was not fanning so much. I looked over at the air conditioner and realized it was off, and so were all the lights in the house.
For those unaware, it can only mean one thing. Someone hit another power pole. Don’t have any idea why people have to do that. Maybe it was another lost Memphis driver. I don’t know. It doesn’t matter. All that really counts, they took my cool air from me without notice.
I called the wife and soon we were on our way to a nice cold restaurant. However, first, I needed to make a little stop. I needed to drop my script off at the store. As I approached the drive through, I saw just one car ahead of me. Good thing. I did not want to wait long.
As I pulled in, the car pulled away. Now that was too good to be true. Sure enough, as I approached the window, I could see it was closed, the shade was pulled down and there was a sign, “No Power.”
Now that is just not right. Well, it was on to that nice cool restaurant. As I approached the Burger King. I knew exactly what I was going to get. One of those nice big juicy Whoppers and onion rings. My wife decided on a chicken sandwich. There was one hitch. The dinning room was hot.
Apparently their A/C was not A/Cing. However; we were hungry and I could already taste that wonderful Whopper. In a few minutes, we had our meals and we did enjoy them in spite of the heat. I mean, after all, it’s not as if I didn’t have to eat in such situations before and my wife enjoys the heat.
As we left, I double thanked the Burger King crew for such good food and service. I didn’t even mention the A/C. It wasn’t their fault. Besides, I only ate in it. They had to work in it! They did look at me strangely. Clearly they were not used to customers thanking them for doing what they were paid to do.
As we approached the house, I saw signs of hope. I could see porch lights glowing, even as we neared the house. Then, there I saw, our porch, with the light on.
I went inside and the little 8000 BTU A/C was really A/Cing. Nice cold air was coming out of it. I sat down in my easy chair and took it easy. And, Oh! did that air feel good. I mean. What did people do before A/C? Well, I do guess they did a lot of what I was doing, complaining.
Maybe that going green outfit like going without A/C. As for me, I say, drill baby drill. I like my A/C, a lot.