We already had a quality air conditioner, but I knew she would come up with a long foolscap list of why it was incompetent
She woke up in the morning, swearing that she had heard something moving in the ducts in the dead of night. She was far from a liar, but the mere fact that she had a flair for the dramatics meant she might have been exaggerating the facts a little. As most people called her, HoneyBeth was unfortunate enough to have me for a husband. Our natures were utterly different, but as they say, opposites attract. Pleasing HoneyBeth meant you had to leave her to her own devices on matters such as choosing the air conditioning company. She ensured that we had the best HVAC maintenance program because anything short of the best was unacceptable. We bought an air purifier, but later HoneyBeth learned the advantages of an indoor air cleaning system to the air quality. That is how we ended up calling the air conditioning provider twice within the same month. I heard her on the phone with the air conditioning technician as she relayed our alleged list of problems. It never ceases to amaze me how smart she was on different subjects. At one time, a guy from the indoor comfort business once asked me if my wife was once an a/c serviceman because she knew more about air conditioning than any homeowner he had met; only one who had worked in the cooling industry could know. It was during an air conditioning repair. By the end of the call, I knew we were about to have a new HVAC installation. We already had a quality air conditioner, but I knew she would come up with a long foolscap list of why it was incompetent. In a week, we would have a multi-split air conditioning system which is ductless, and a new thermostat to go with it.