When I saw the address on the toil order, I was ready to tell them I would not go there; anywhere but there would be great.
One of the other HVAC techs saw the toil order, and she laughed. She didn’t recognize I had it when she nudged me and said she was cheerful it wasn’t him. The home looked like a single you expected to see Dracula come to the door. The outside was black from the top of the roof to the ground. They even painted the chimney black. The closer I got to the house, I was imagining all the reasons the renters would need air conditioning. I thought they may need air conditioning to keep the blood fresh… Being a Dracula, she may keep her prey fresh until she could get to them. Then I wondered where she would keep her prey. Maybe they would be kept in the dungeon where it would be cool. What if I had to repair a gas furnace, and it was in the dungeon with the prey? What if I was to become her next prey? When I pulled up to the house, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to get out of the repair van. A young woman came out of the home and took me inside, she said they needed a complete HVAC method in the house. About that time, a real Dracula came out of the family room. My partner shook me awake and told me I had to go to that home and repair the AC, no matter how giant a coward I was.