It was as simple as this.
On Saturday evening, at 7:30 pm, I noticed that the air coming from the vents in the house was not cool. Checking outside, I found that my compressor was not working. Browsing through the yellow pages, my wife located and called an air conditioning repairman, and put me on the phone. He did a brief Q&A with me, and determined that he was indeed needed. Soon, Mr. Dillon arrived. I talked to him and watched him work in the dark of my backyard. After replacing the 9-yr-old capacitor, we went inside to enjoy the air conditioning and some water while he wrote out the bill and I wrote out a check. By then, it was about 9:30 pm.
Nothing in particular is especially miraculous about this story, to those who live in this culture, economy, and time of ours. But in the wider context of human experience, there are many layers of amazing facts in this story:
I have air conditioning.
I have central air conditioning.
I can call a man on Saturday night at 7:30 pm to repair it.
He shows up and cheerfully completes the repair within 2 hours.
The repair costs me the equivalent of about 4 hours of my work.
Wow.
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One more WoW, if, during the question time, he helped you discover a problem that you the fixed yourself, you would not have been charged for bothering a professional at 7:30 on a Saturday night.
Clyde is correct to contrast the efficient and polite interactions of voluntary market participants with the ugly, inefficient “services” offered by Big Mommy government.
Yes but 10 bucks says he repaired it wrong and you will have to call him back within 3 weeks.
I’m sorry, Clyde, but you’re assuming that there would be no transportation if government hadn’t provided it.
So roads would not exist without government? I guess we need more government then for places with really bad traffic.
This made me think of Robert De Niro’s outlaw air condition repair man character in the movie Brazil.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0783225903/
Yes, but to get to your house he used public roads. Which means none of that would have been possible without our intrusive and expansive government.
Oops wrong post.
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=aircon+repair+blog
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Now that’s what I’m talking about. Reliable companies, competent, professional employees, and satisfied customers. Fantastic!
Wow my company that I represent would have been out there in 15 minutes and charged less. But your still got good service though.
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