So there is a bit of a continuing saga regarding the air conditioner in my room. To explain (as I am not sure I really have before), my bedroom suite is upstairs. Above the garage. It is a room that is sometimes referred to as a “bonus” room, and in some southern states a FROG (full room over garage). I live in Florida. It is hot here. This hotness necessitates that a separate A/C unit be employed for the upstairs living quarters.
And when that unit dies (where was the CNN coverage on that, Anderson Cooper?!) things get beyond just hot. They get funky and steamy and you can pretty much see the hot air sizzling in front of you.
In other words it is unfit for sleeping & W and I have been sleeping on a twin mattress on the floor of GM’s room since last week. Let me rephrase that, W has been sleeping. I have not. And at this point I am just cranky as hell.
I have been calling the A/C repair place* every day since the repair man left things a hot mess last friday. He actually left things worse as before he futzed with things at least I could get the fan to work. So I call and check on the status of things. And because I am nice and was raised well I call with a sort of apologetic tone to my voice. You know that, “I’m so sorry to have to call again, but…” girl? She is me.
Until today. Until I called and was placed on hold and bounced around from one clueless tech to the other until I finally got on the horn with some lady that is Queen of Parts. Turns out that they haven’t even ORDERED the part that my unit needs. Someone wrote a number down wrong and they had to track down the technician or some such excuse and it all boiled down to a giant delay.
And I might have just hung up and pouted a bit more, might have felt a bit more pathetic and lame for being the girl in a heat wave with no cool air above her bed. But then the lady says that she is walking out the door and will have to order the part on monday. Making giant delay a SUPER SIZED delay.
Excuuuuuuuuse me? Um. No. You are calling now.
She then tells me that she was supposed to leave at 4pm today and it is a holiday weekend and she needs to GO. Well, dear internets, you would have been proud. I went off. Monday would not do. Not at ALL. NO. You will call now. I even sufficiently raised my voice at her when her response to my reminding her that I have a 12 week old baby (yes. I milked it.) was that I “could just have him in a pamper to keep cool.”
I get that I am lucky enough to have cool air downstairs, but my sleep is all janked up because I can not sleep in my bed and it has been an epic wait and parts haven’t been ordered and rather than just put me on hold and make the fricken call you are going to get snippy with me?I’m trying to get snippy with YOU. Don’t infringe on my snippy with yours. Uncool. (literally)
Of course I bet as soon as she got off the phone with me she peed all over my file and lit it on fire and sang God Bless America.
*reminder that we are renters and at the mercy of our property managers as to where we can get repairs done.
Laughing my ass off at your imagining of her revenge. But she clearly deserved the snippy and then some, by the sounds of it.
Hope your part gets here very soon, and I hope a bird poops in her eye when she’s watching fireworks this weekend.
Good for you for yelling at her. Telling you she’ll call on Mon.. urg….
Get a small window unit for the time being…they are cheap and if the landlord has a fit…tell them you could not wait for them while you roast. A small unit costs $129-200 tops. Good luck
Ooh, like the idea of getting a small window unit.
Monday is more then a few days away in the South. My a/c went out last summer when I was bigger then a house with the twins and I couldn’t wait for the home people to get someone out here, I found an emergency service who must have felt pity on me and didn’t charge me anything. You could try finding a 24 hour service one and see how much they would charge to fix it, just a thought.
Good for you! I can’t imagine not having air conditioning here, we’d die.
You know, I’m pretty sure there is a law in AL that states that if the air conditioning in a rental property does not work, the renter is not required to pay the property owner rent for the time without AC. Might be worthwhile to look into that law in FL and let your landlord handle the repair place.
You crack me up!
i hope this gets resolved quickly for you obviously but the reason for my comment is because this statement of yours “Of course I bet as soon as she got off the phone with me she peed all over my file and lit it on fire and sang God Bless America.” made me laugh so hard that i started couging really hard and peed in my pants… thank you very much!
I have goons. Want I should send them?
Oh, I like Io’s comment. Goons sound good. What a dipshit to think that you’d wait until Monday for the part to be ordered.