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Discovering the problem with the a/c

When the air conditioning went out on my car, the first thing I did was ask my grandson-in-law, Mitchell (Remy’s husband) to look at it.

It was making a loud knocking noise and if you turned it up enough to cool you off, it knocked so loud that it was impossible to stay in the car.

Mitch, whom I love dearly, is a truck driver and mechanic for his dad, who operates a ground delivery fleet for FedEx.

He opened up the whatever the a/c is in and found it full of acorns. He came back in delighted, saying he’d not only found the bad smell in my car (we’d all been searching the car for a couple weeks to find the smell), but he was sure there was a dead squirrel caught in there and that was making the noise. I will skip his very graphic description of the knocking, as it grossed me out and I’m sure it would you as well.

After finally taking the car to be fixed, the mechanic said it was the blower motor and would be $9,000 dollars (not really). So, imagine my surprise when I picked the car up and it was only $5,000 (not really).

Granddaughter Remy had gone in to pay and when she came out, she was smiling and the mechanic was behind her and he was smiling. It turns out that the reason for all the smiling was what was wrong with the car.

Turns out that while it wasn’t a squirrel, it was a rat. There were also a few more acorns and a ton of red hots.

I freely admit to being a red hot addict. I even took them to dialysis, and yes, it was OK with the nurses.

One thing that puzzles me still – I understand the rat and the acorns – but how in the world did red hots get in the air vents?

 

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