Last week, I had to hold back my laughter as my husband struggled to clean the window air conditioning unit.
He knew he had to take the front of the air conditioner off to get to the reusable air filter, but he couldn’t figure out how to get off.
The air conditioner he was working on was in my workroom. He had taken the air conditioning unit out of the window, put on the floor, and was sprawled out in front of it. He had a screwdriver run in hand and an even smaller screwdriver in the other. As he pried the front of the air conditioner off, I could hear him cursing and carrying on. I wanted to get out of the room so I didn’t laugh where he could hear me, but his feet were spread so far that I would’ve tripped had I moved. After 20 minutes, I asked him if he had pushed on the tabs that kept the front of the air conditioner in place. Even though he grumbled he knew what he was doing, he started looking inside for the little tabs to push. Within five minutes, he had the front off, and he was cleaning the air filter. When he put the front back on, there was a loud buzzing in the air conditioning unit. Instead of taking the front off and repositioning it, I now have a penny stuck in the side of my air conditioner. The good thing is that there is no noise coming from the air conditioning unit.My husband is quite pleased with himself.