What is the point of even having an air conditioner if you refuse to use it? It got me motivated enough that I rode my bike up to Walmart and got the retail price for the cheapest portable air conditioner.
I remember when I was 12 years old I started mowing lawns to earn extra money. This was a different generation, as much as I hate admitting how old I am. These days it seems that grown men do all of the yard work for our neighborhood, but in my day it was just a kid dragging a single lawnmower around. I was lucky if I got five bucks for mowing a lawn, but I stayed with it, all through the spring and into the summer, to achieve my goal. I wasn’t saving up for comics, or a new bike, I wanted my own air conditioner. My dad was a tyrant with the thermostat, and even when it got over 80 degrees in the house he refused to turn it on. What is the point of even having an air conditioner if you refuse to use it? It got me motivated enough that I rode my bike up to Walmart and got the retail price for the cheapest portable air conditioner. If he refused to let me use the air conditioner I would just have to buy my own and use that instead. I worked my butt off for weeks, but finally had enough cash to buy my own little A/C unit, and my friends helped me install it in the window of my bedroom. What I didn’t expect was that after you buy the air conditioner you still have to pay for the electricity to make it work. My dad made me pay my fair share of the utility bill after that