Last week, my group and I ended up winning a trivia contest at a bar.
We owe it to our buddy, Charlie, who knew the answer to a random question about the history of air conditioners. This was one of the weirdest things that I have ever heard in my life. Charlie knows plenty about many things, although I never in a million years thought that he would know anything at all about the history of air conditioners. We just kind of stopped and stared at him in awe and disbelief. At that point, our trivia team was down and we wondered if we’d answer incorrectly and be eliminated. When I saw what the question was, I thought for sure that we were out. It was a bummer for us too, because we had been doing so well in the competition series. Then, all of a sudden, Charlie rang in. At first, I thought it was a mistake. I thought that he had accidentally pushed his buzzer and that the two of us were completely out of luck. Then, he truly confidently answered the question and he knew exactly who the father of the new air conditioner was! I suppose that our jaws hit the floor when he answered that question respectfully, however later on, after the two of us had won the competition, the two of us were all asking Charlie how in the world he had known the answer to that question. It turned out that his dad was an HVAC professional when he was growing up, and he used to read all about heating and cooling systems for fun back when he was a kid.