I hate it when my mom calls me these days.
Since they’ve moved down here, she mostly just texts me during the work day.
Normally, I see them at least once a week as they live right around the corner. I spend a lot of time inside the zone controlled HVAC of my office and I don’t like to waste my energy. So my people know not to call me at the office unless it’s a big deal. When I heard my assistant tell me that my mom was on the line, my blood went cold a bit. Of course, I was thinking about dad’s health or something bad had happened. When I heard her voice, I knew that there was something going on but she immediately reassured me that they were okay. Yet, she called me because my dad had decided that he was going to work on the HVAC equipment. I’m so glad that she called. This is so like my dad. He was the sort who could work on just about any machine. But that was a long time ago and HVAC technology is not something a 78 year old man needs to be messing with. Actually, we had the central air conditioning upgraded when they moved into that condo. So it was still pretty new and my mom and I both realized just what would happen if dad started messing with the heating and cooling unit. I hustled over there and my mom met me at the door with the HVAC warranty. I had to actually hold this document in front of my dad to prove that he was about to void the warranty on the HVAC equipment. Thankfully, that got his attention.