I come from a family that incrementally acts incredibly tough or is wildly complaining about every single thing.
You never know what kind of a day you’re going to have until you start communicating with my family members.
On Monday they might tell you that they are strong, capable, and undeterred by every challenge in life. By Tuesday they will probably be complaining about their job, their health, and even the way the wind blows. It’s a continual back and forth between rejecting their problems and wallowing in them. This is why I was not surprised when my mom started complaining about her central heating and cooling devices a few weeks ago. I knew that her central air conditioning system was at least 15 years old because I remembered when the professional HVAC dealership came out and installed it. I also realized that her forced air furnace was well past its prime because the heating system existed when we moved into our house. When I recommended that she called her local heating, cooling, and ventilation dealership to arrange a professional maintenance appointment or repair service my mom simply shook her head. She insisted that she could get by with the heating and cooling devices as they were. She didn’t need to pay any expensive costs for a certified air quality control specialist to inspect her ancient HVAC devices. My mom insisted that her indoor air quality control system was not that important to her to shell out the money. That’s what she said one day, but every conversation we’ve had since has been about her terrible air quality.