The other day whenever my air conditioning system tore up in my house, I found out that the problem was a whole lot simpler to fix than I actually thought it was.
I was busy catastrophizing the whole event just like I always do.
I always think the worst of things, and so when my air conditioning would not turn on that morning, I just pictured a huge air conditioning repair bill coming in the mail from my HVAC company. I was all ready to panic about the whole thing, and so when I called up my husband in tears, he had to be the voice of reason. He is actually usually the voice of reason around here. Anyway, when I called him and told him that the air conditioning would not come on, he went through a checklist of things that it could be. He told me not to panic. He also told me not to call the HVAC company right away because it might be something simple. I told him that there was no way that it was something simple, and I said that the air conditioning system was definitely torn up. I was panicking because I knew that we didn’t have enough money to get the air conditioning repaired, and there’s no way that I would be able to live through this summer without a working air conditioning system in our house. Then he told me to check the batteries in the thermostat unit. This was not something that I had thought of before. As a matter of fact, I did not even realize that the thermostat had batteries in it at all! Luckily, it turned out that my husband was exactly right! After I put in three new AA batteries, the air conditioning turned on just fine.