Spending a few months out of work actually changed the way I look at the world, and mostly it changed the way I looked at the village, because I had a lot of free time to spy on my neighbors… Spy is an ugly word, I was just watching people who didn’t assume I was watching, not by peeking in their window just looking out through my own, then when people are comfortable they act real, so I get to see them being themselves in little glimpses here or there, but one of the first things I noticed was how often my friend Steve needed his air conditioner inspected.
Steve lives across the street from me, and I saw the A/C repair van parked out front twice in a single week; The next week a weird A/C van was there, despite the fact that I saw the same uniformed tech going into the house.
Steve does have a unquestionably pretty husbandy, this I already knew, but now I was sensing the A/C repair guy knew his better than anyone thought. The next week things actually heated up, and a single morning while the A/C van was parked out front Steve came beach new home on his lunch break, he had never done this before, despite the fact that I could tell he knew what was up by the way he parked to block in the A/C van leaving. He ran into the house, and a few moments later the air conditioner guy came running around from the backyard, in his drawers with his uniform in his arms. What a great morning that was.