My mom refuses to complain about the HVAC system in front of my dad because she’s afraid that he will try to fix it himself.
My dad is one of those guys who always tries to fix things himself, even though he doesn’t really know how to do hardly anything around the house at all.
He pretends to know what he’s doing, though. He acts like the heating and cooling system and the electrical system aren’t a big mystery for him at all. However, I know that he really doesn’t know a thing at all about either of those things. My dad just isn’t one of those people who knows how to fix things around the house. My mom gets super mad whenever my dad tries to fix something around the house because she knows that he is only going to make things worse. That’s what happened the last time when my dad said that he was going to fix the central air conditioning system in their house. He went downstairs to their basement to work on the air conditioning system but he didn’t know what to do once he got down there. He banged around on the A/C unit but he didn’t fix it. As a matter of fact, he ended up making the problem much worse. That’s when my mom came downstairs and found out that my dad had broken the air conditioning all to pieces. She was so mad that she didn’t know what to do with herself. Now, she won’t say anything about things that need to be done in front of my dad.