The AC Repair We Both Swore Would Be Quick
I want to talk about the lie everybody tells themselves, including me, and tells it again the very next day. It was June, a Tuesday, north side of Kingfisher. A man called about his upstairs not cooling. He met me in the driveway already half apologizing, because he'd told his wife I'd be in and out in twenty minutes and she'd planned the afternoon around it. He said: it's probably just low on freon, right? Quick top-off. I've heard that sentence a thousand times. It's never just a top-off, because refrigerant doesn't get used up, it leaks, and a leak is a hunt, and a hunt takes as long as it…
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