Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Dangerous job

As many of you know, this has been an unusually hot, humid and long hot season. Because of the heavy usage it has gotten during these months of temperatures near or above 100 degrees we needed to have our air conditioner serviced. As part of the service, this guy is topping up the coolant in our unit. Because the air conditioner is on the second floor in our bedroom, the outside part of the unit is about 10 feet off the ground. Two guys came on a motorbike balancing a large metal case containing this tank, a compressor and some other very heavy equipment between them. I had only a stool to offer, so this guy climbed up to the top of the wall using only his arm strength, cleaned the whole unit and then hauled this tank up and balanced it on his knee while refilling the coolant. I have to think that if these guys were on some of the reality shows that involve physical challenges they'd have no problem.

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