Kids these days can’t survive without basic HVAC technology
I’m going to take the risk of sounding like an old lady wagging her finger.
- Kids these days have no idea what it was like to live before heating and A/C technology.
I get it, it’s a generational difference and my boys will whine and moan for days if something ever happens to the heating and a/c unit, they will become very dramatic about it and if the a/c component doesn’t work they will say they are dying from the heat. So I decided to try and help them understand that there was a time before heating and A/C technology where people had to live their entire lives without central heating and a/c. Me telling my boys this made them look at me like I had come from the stone age! They had no clue how I even survived. So I told them the story. I explained that back in those days, people had to rely on opening windows to let in cool air, going outside and taking a swim in some cool water, some carried around hand fans, and some ate cold sweet treats and everybody did their best to stay in the shade. In the wintertime months in the olden mornings, people would gather around a fire or a furnace. Central heating was no such thing yet so the fireplace would only heat the room it was in and the rest of the house was cold, after the story the boys seemed a little more appreciative, however I knew they wouldn’t understand. How could they? They had not lived it.