My friends and I used to laugh when someone screwed up in class.
If they broke a tool or just didn’t do what they were supposed to, it was funny.
When you become an adult, what used to be funny, isn’t so funny anymore. When it happened to me, it was even less funny. I was in HVAC class last week. I walked into the class just like I had for the last three months. I was thinking about my pals since we had just gone out together the night before. I guess I should have been paying attention to what I was supposed to be doing instead of thinking about the previous night. I wasn’t really thinking about anything including the air conditioning unit I was supposed to be repairing. I knew it was just practice, but we were supposed to be treating it like it was a real repair job. The instructors had put bad parts into the AC unit. They had certain things that only an observant eye could find and I was supposed to find them. Instead of repairing the broken AC unit, I ended up breaking the fan blades and dropping a tool into the unit. Everyone was laughing as the instructor told me I had techniques he had never seen before and asked me to take a seat. The girl I had a crush on, was asked to come forward and take over where I left off. She found all of the AC problems within five minutes and got an A+ on the hands-on exam. I was asked to stay after class where I was asked if I was serious about being an HVAC technician.
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