I have said that one of the things I enjoy about living in a small town is that I don't have the stress of keeping up with my business because everybody else does it for me. With that being said let me see if I can do this in a Reader's Digest version (condensed).
It has gotten cooler and on Fri. afternoon late I turned my heat on or I should say I turned the thermostat up. Nothing happened. I had measured my oil and had about 50 gallons and had ordered 100 more that would be delivered on Monday (to the turn of $343.00 for a hundred gallons, made me think it really would be a long winter). At any rate I go down to the basement and hit the reset button cos I know to do things like that first. It came on for about 45 seconds and then shut off. I could smell oil so I knew the pump part was working. I hit the reset again and it ran for about 30 seconds and shut back off.
Step 2: Call the landlord (what I enjoy about renting) and after I assured him I would be ok Fri night he promised to have someone out here Sat. morning. It was about 5:00 at this time.
Step 3: Heating and Air tech comes out Sat. morning and after spending about 45 minutes and marveling that the unit is probably at least 20 years older than he is and he has never seen one this old tells me he has to get a part for it. He changed the filter and the nozzle but the transformer is gone. He told me he would be back on Mon with someone else to help him disconnect the power and they would try to get it running. I told him no problem and that I would be home on Mon.
On Sun. night around 7:30 I get a call to work Mon. morning at one of my part-time jobs. I left home about 8:50 and he was not here yet. Now let me interject here I did not know this boy from Adam's house cat but he was just as nice as he could be and was apologetic that he couldn't get it fixed on Sat. So at any rate I run to the store on my way to work and as I am coming back through town I see the heating and air van at my house. I went on to my part time job and had been there about 45 minutes when the heating and air van pulled up in front of the office. These two little boys walked in and I asked, "are ya'll looking for me?" And they were. I don't know how these boys knew where to find me but they did and had no trouble doing it. I do have one next door neighbor who knows that I work at this job sometimes and I guess they could have asked him but nobody else close to the house would have known.
So here I was at a place I had not planned to be and these two boys who I have no idea who they are knew right where to find me when I wasn't at home. So therefore, you might can run but you damn sure can't hide.
Oh!, and the reason they came looking for me was to get the landlord's phone number because they were going to talk to him about putting in a new unit instead of trying to repair the antique because once they got into it is needing even more work than they thought. I am hopeful this is the case because it sure would help me to have a new energy efficent electric heat pump than the $3.00 a gallon fuel sucking old workhorse that is down there now. Oh and that is another reason I don't mind renting. I am thinking that is the deal because it is still not working. Fortunately it isn't cold right now. Oh and my little landlord and his wife stopped by on Sun to check to see if they got out here on Sat and told me if I needed to I could spend the night with them. May not be Mayberry and it does have it's drawbacks but it has it's advantages too. Toodles
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