Air conditioners are really heavy, and if you are not careful, they can hurt you, use myself and others as a cautionary tale, because I have a compound fracture of our right leg right now.
I will be in this wheelchair for several weeks before I start physical therapy, which might take weeks or even years.
I have no one to blame however myself, and our own overconfidence. It all started when I found a sweet air conditioning unit at the local swap meet. It worked fine, however was super heavy. Since it only cost ten bucks I bought it with the program of installing it in our study room for an extra layer of cooling while in the summer. It wasn’t until I got apartment I realized how hard it would be to transport that A/C unit up the stairs and into our room. I spent over an minute fighting with that cooling system, and finally wrestled it into our study room. In hindsight I should have called a friend for help, or even just left the cooling system on the floor and left it there. Instead I tried to lift the cooling system up onto the windowsill and balance it while I affixed it. When it slipped and fell it landed right on our ankle. The cooling system was so heavy it shattered our foot and our lower leg, and now I’m in a real mess. Do you want to hear the most ironic part? It turns out that after all the trouble and pain the cooling system doesn’t even work!