What you look like in Africa w/0 air conditioning
Stephen King getting ideas for a new book with an A/C unit that is possessed
Our A/C maintenance man....Mr. FreezeI was asked the other day what I found to be the most difficult part of living in Lagos. I think they expected me to say the power shortages, the unreliable Internet, or even the golden brown tap water. I have two things that are challenges to me and they will probably surprise my readers. This blog will be about the first item...air conditioning. Don't get me wrong, I am no Meryl Streep and if there were no A/C then I would be Out of Africa for sure, Robert Redford or not. However, in each room of the house are individual a/c units and they each have a thermostat. What is the problem you may ask? Well, this thermostat doesn't keep the room at a constant temperature, it alternates between Arctic and steamy blasts so that the daily average is pretty much what the thermostat is set on. For example, you want the room at 75 degrees Fahrenheit, that would mean alternating blasts of 95 degrees and 55 degrees. You can actually experience all four seasons just by walking from room to room. You may be saying, "why don't you just turn them off." Well, I do... but they manage to turn themselves back on in a creepy Stephen King kind of way. We have nicknames for these beasts...Breezy, Sneezy and Freezy are 3 that come to mind and the other names we call them cannot be printed!!!
2 comments:
Whoa! At first I was worried that was YOU in the first picture!
Can't believe you are back to blogging. Yea!!! Brown tap water??? Poor Ju! (Poor David, too)
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