I’m the kind of person who always has to keep moving and be doing something.
So when my mother came to stay with us for a little while, I started going nuts. It’s not that I didn’t love having my mother around, it’s just that she wants to take care of everything. She wanted to do all the cooking, the laundry, and even fix things around the household. When the kitchen light went out for instance, she said she would take care of it and she actually did! Even when I went to mow the lawn, she said that she needed the exercise and took over that job as well. All I was able to do was sit around and do a whole lot of nothing while I just enjoyed the frosty air from the cooling system. Eventually, the cooling system started making some funny noises. My mother was saying it sounded like we needed to call up the HVAC company. She wanted to pay for the cost to repair the cooling system and everything. I had to put my foot down and said I would take care of it. Instead of calling the HVAC company, I got some friends to come over and help me work on the cooling system. We figured we knew what we were doing from watching some DIY HVAC repair videos. We even replaced a certain part in the cooling system and thought it would work great afterwards. The thing worked for a short while and then made a huge grinding noise that didn’t sound too good. By the time I actually had an HVAC professional over to work on the cooling system, he was disappointed to see that we tried to fix it on our own. He said it was a foolish move and it cost me a lot of money to have repaired.