He told me the last company had been working him, and about nine seconds later he told me exactly what was wrong with his air conditioner and how he knew.

Late August, one of those weeks where it never gets below eighty at night and the equipment does not get a rest. Brick ranch east of town, single story, built somewhere in the middle seventies, big elms on the west side doing the house a real favor. Man in his fifties, met me in the driveway before I had the truck door shut. Three ton split system, about twelve years on it. Running all day, house sitting around eighty two.

Here is the whole story he gave me, in order, standing in the drive.

Last spring another outfit came out. Their guy told him the indoor coil was leaking and needed to be replaced, and quoted a number he thought was ridiculous. He said no. He called somebody else who put refrigerant in it, and it cooled fine the rest of the summer for a fraction of what the first company wanted.

Then he says, and this is close to word for word: I know how this works, that first guy was on commission and he saw an old system and a man with no way to check him. It just needs freon. That is not me being cheap, that is common sense.

Two claims, back to back, out of the same mouth. The other man's judgment was bought. His own judgment was plain sense.

Now I want to tell you what I did with that, because I did not pull into the driveway clean either.

I know the outfit he was talking about. Bigger shop, salespeople, the kind of place where a coil quote and a commission sit in the same paragraph. So while he was talking I had already half decided the coil call had been a stretch and that I was going to be the one who found the real trouble. I was building the same kind of case he was. I just had it pointed the other direction.

Core line: "And then they were asked how the most accurate and objective measurement available would rate them, compared to how they had just rated themselves a minute earlier."

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