The recent AC repair in Queens that I had done in my home was quick and painless. I got in touch with a company that was recommended to me by a close friend who had recently called them to replace her air conditioner. For some reason, our old air conditioners stopped working at around the same time. I think there’s something about these devices that causes them to stop working at similar times. Maybe there’s some kind of planned obsolescence that the company puts in, or maybe the parts are just made to last that long. Either way, I needed help, and the company was able to provide it.

The company came over in the morning to look at my air conditioner to get an idea of what was wrong with it. It could have been just about anything, from one of the fan motors, to a capacitor, to something …