I am such an Idiot.
It’s hot out, really hot. Here in southern Ontario, we’re experiencing a heat wave that gives us days of 30 degrees or hotter (for any American reading, 30 degrees real temperature is about 4,375 degrees farenheight). I decided to spend my money on a room in the basement instead of replacing my decrepit old and broken central air conditioner.
Boy was that ever a mistake.
The heat hit and my cool basement room isn’t ready yet. I should have done the work in the winter and got the central air replaced, that was mistake #1. Mistake #2 was with my window A/C unit I got last year.
It was a NICE unit, until I dropped it from the window winterizing the house. Durrrr. I did install it not to long ago, and it did work just not as well. I wanted to make it work better, so I decided to do what I saw my buddy do to his air conditioner last night.
He drilled a hole in the bottom of his window A/C unit to let the water drain. And the A/C got colder. A LOT colder.
I drilled a hole in the bottom of my A/C unit, hoping for the same effect. The effect was punching a hole right in my coolant line.
Even though I was much cooler now that I was covered in freezing and probably cancer causing A/C coolant, that did NOTHING to improve my mood. Grumbling, I threw on a pair of shorts and and went out to my local Home Depot to buy an a/c unit with money I didn’t have.
Of course, in my haste I put on the pair of shorts that needs a belt to stay up, without actually using a belt.
And of course it takes two hands to carry a 60lb A/C box because I’m too stupid to get a cart.
And as my pants started sliding down my ass, I realized I was in trouble. I’m just glad that there was nobody nearby that would call the cops because I flashed them, intentionally or not.
Anyways, it takes a lot of work to carry an A/C unit in one hand and another on your shorts.
If there’s a lesson to be learned, it’s this: Don’t drill any fucking holes in your A/C unit, you moron.
Nuff said.
