I’m not all that traditional a sort of guy.
This is one of the things that bums my dad out if he’s really honest.
Oh, my dad loves me for me but he’d also sure like for me to share his politics and his love for traditional values and all that stuff. And mostly, I probably have more in common with my dad than he realizes. There are things like HVAC maintenance that he taught me about and I have applied to my adult life. Growing up inside the central air conditioning of my dad’s house wasn’t too tough. All you had to do were follow the rules of the house and I did. I didn’t agree with all of them but I also understood almost innately that my dad had worked hard just to have central air conditioning. I’d seen where he came from and all he had to do to pull himself up all on his own. He came from a way of life where something like residential HVAC was simply out of the question. So even though dad was quite mechanically inclined, he left the HVAC equipment to the HVAC professionals. We also always got seasonal HVAC maintenance from our HVAC company. And dad would always explain that he was happy to spend money on HVAC maintenance because it would come back to him in longevity and efficiency. That stuck with me and to this day, I’m happy to spend my money on something as typically traditional as HVAC maintenance from HVAC professionals. Like I said, I think if my dad really thought about it, he’d realize that there are plenty of ways to be progressive as well as traditional.
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