My dad has always been a fairly stubborn person.
However, as time and technology has passed him by, he’s gotten even more stubborn.
I appreciate the fact that now every new thing is a good thing. But he tends to think that old remedies will work on new problems. Mom and dad finally moved closer to us. They have a nice little condo with great quality heating and air. Mom loves the weather down here as she was so over all the snow, ice and cold of up north. My dad is pretty fond of the region as well except when it comes to summer. He tells me quite often just how much he hates the summer heat and he’d rather be up north for the summer. Basically, from June through September, he stays inside the air conditioning of the condo. I’ve tried to coax him outside for some golf early in the mornings but he’ll hardly leave the HVAC cooling even for that. The other day, when my assistant told me my mom was on the line, I was sure that dad was dead or in the hospital. Instead, he was going to attempt a fix on the air conditioning which he felt wasn’t working well enough. I told my mom to stall him, find the HVAC warranty and I’d be there right away. When I got there, dad had pulled together some tools and a manual on air conditioning from the 80’s. Mom handed me the HVAC warranty. I then began to read aloud the part about the warranty being void if anyone but an HVAC professionals attempted a repair. That stopped him as warranties are like gold to him.