One crazy thing that I really remember about my childhood is the fact that my pops worked at a heating and cooling repair shop.
He was always really busy.
All of us lived in this place and it was not official for a lot of cooling problems to occur during the summer warm temperatures. It seemed often that our dad would bring us over to the heating and cooling shop to play while we had to work. He was taking a lot of calls during the evening and sometimes it seems like we were at the shop more than we were at our home. When we were older, people seem to be glad to see us tag along. A lot of folks wanted help with heating and cooling repairs even though we were really too young to absolutely help. I often think about this frequently and wonder why no one likes when people bring their children along with them to work. There were a number of times when my dad took us to heating and cooling jobs and the customers never had a single problem. It just seemed to be part of the day. Now it is impossible to get someone to appreciate that tradition. I miss those times when my dad would take us out to the heating and cooling emergency repairs and it’s something that I won’t hardly ever forget as I get older and have a family of my own. My dad took the time to teach us a skill and even though I don’t repair HVAC equipment, I sure can fix my own.