Hick's Self-Help Goes Awry

The weather has cooled off, with temperatures dropping into the 40s overnight. Hick and Old Buddy arrived at Bargain House on Monday morning. The NEW furnace wasn't running! Hick called the company that installed it, run by one of his buddies, of course. They sent someone right over.

"For a price, I'm sure!"

"No. They didn't charge nothin'. They found a vacuum hose loose, and hooked it up. It was running when I left, kicking on and off. I'm pretty sure that's all that was wrong with it."

Right after they put it in, I had looked at it. They left a wire clamp off. So I put the wire through and clamped it. I guess while I was doing that, maybe I knocked the vacuum hose loose. But they got it all fixed up."

"You didn't tell them you were messing with it, did you?"

"No! They don't need to know that!"

"So it might have worked if you didn't 'maybe' knock the vacuum hose loose?"

"Yeah. I don't know why it wouldn't of. But still, that wire needed to be clamped."

"But you didn't call them about it when you saw it."

"No. It's just a minor thing. I always look at the work people have done. To see if they did it right. It was easy to fix, so I did it myself."

"And messed up something else, heh, heh!"

"Maybe..."

Anyhoo... the furnace is working at Bargain House.