Our child is a particularly capable and independent thirty-year-old, and she obtained her own home three years ago, and from time to time she will call my partner to ask him how to repair something… Last week she called and said that her a/c wouldn’t turn on, however this was an near emergency, since my associate and I were on the third straight day of a heat wave with temperatures in the mid-nineties, however so when she called us, my associate and I undoubtedly felt bad for him, especially since my associate and I were sitting in a nice air conditioned home, however after my partner suggested that she try a few things, none of which helped, the only thing left to do was to call an Heating and Air Conditioning worker. They both knew that since it was a Tuesday afternoon during an extended heat wave, there would really be a long wait plus an extra charge for a home call, however but she got lucky because someone from an Heating and Air Conditioning company was able to come within two hours of her call. Once the Heating and Air Conditioning woman looked at both the interior and exterior units of the a/c, she suggested my child to get an particularly current system… She explained that they were running a special current a/cs and installations, however that they were booked until the middle of the month. Since my child balked at that, the worker then showed him how she could wash the outside unit’s fins with a garden hose. She said that she could do it, however that he’d have to charge one hundred dollars more, however my child thanked him, paid the one hundred and forty dollars for the home call, and cleaned the fins himself. She was pretty proud of himself once the a/c started running again.