A decade or so ago, when I was living in the entirely northern section of my state & my mother was living way down south, I would sometimes make the 8-hour drive down to see her & visit for a while… One weekend, I proceeded to do just that, & about halfway there, resting in gridlock on the interstate, I began to smell an nasty smell.
I thought it was some disgusting paper plant or something spewing pollution into the air, but suppose what? It was my Honda’s a/c! Soon, the air conditioning air vents were blowing hot, smelly air into the already-100-degree afternoon, now, no one in my state wants to be someplace without air conditioning, least of all a traffic jammed highway.
Well, in those mornings, I did not have a lot of possibilities when it came to parting with my currency in unexpected ways, & online I read that my air conditioning service would genuinely be $1500. There was no way I had an extra one or several grand lying around just waiting to be spent fixing my air conditioning. I consistently put it off until later. Well, it was miserable, let me tell you. With no air conditioning to flip on at the end of the workday, I was feeling like I wanted to pass out by the time I got home. I never did get that air conditioning fixed. I kept that vehicle several more years, & let me assure you of one thing! Five years without air conditioning was no fun at all.