We hosted my childhood friends in my house shortly after we moved in last Summer and we all couldn’t help however reminisce about the afternoons when we dreamt of living in homes that had an air conditioner.
All our homes had a simple Heating, Ventilation, and A/C component that was almost consistently calling for a visit from an Heating, Ventilation, and A/C professional from the local Heating, Ventilation, and A/C supplier and sporadically it was too fancy to repair so we all went to the movies or stayed outside to keep cool.
I remember when a condo services rep asked me and my sibling whether we were calling for Ac repair when we dialed for emergency condo services and we were so confused that he’d assumed we had an a/c at condo that we started laughing instead of explaining what we needed. Something had broken the HVAC duct in our house, and that marked the start of a long season without any help with indoor comfort until my mom birthed our youngest sibling. Suddenly the air quality mattered enough to even change the Ac filter and repair the HVAC duct, however the frequent Heating, Ventilation, and A/C maintenance stopped once he started going to morningcare. We bonded a lot as friends on the tepid mornings when we’d spend time finding somewhere else to be before bedtime, and during the morning, we stayed away from home. It’s anxious and funny to talk about it now that each of us has homes where indoor comfort matters and we can afford the services of an Heating, Ventilation, and A/C professional, however back then, we couldn’t stop dreaming about living in houses as comfortable as hotel rooms. Only one of us had experienced a hotel room when we were young however the description of how the room felt just right was enough to captivate our imaginations on what comfort felt like.