The Man Who Had to Believe He Broke the Heat Pump
He had set the thermostat to sixty on a hundred and four degree day, and he genuinely believed that would make it cool faster. Mid July, a two story on the east side of Kingfisher, the kind with the big west windows nobody thinks about when they buy the house. He met me at the door with a glass of tea and an apology, which is how you can tell somebody has been fighting with something for a while. He said, I have had it on sixty since noon and it is still seventy nine in here. I asked him what time he set it to sixty. Noon, he said. And then he said, and I bumped it down twice more since. Now…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.