So....you are sitting in your van with your family late in the evening, minding your own business, when you suddenly hear a very loud BOOM, sounding like a gun shot. You look at your husband and ask, "What was that?!" Then, the rear window of your van smashes into a trillion pieces and falls out.
WHAT DO YOU DO? (AKA..WHAT WE DID)
1)
Panic. Assume you are under fire and shout at your husband, "GO! GO! JUST GO! What if someone's shooting at us? GO! Drive! Just get OUT of here!" Husband drives.
2) Shuffle through the freshly-fallen snow, enter your house, put the kids to bed, while ignoring the feeling that the air inside is a little...crisp.
3) Spend the next three hours cleaning up glass while stressing about the fact that you desperately needed the van this week.
4) Google things like, "Can a vehicle window randomly explode?" and "Cost to replace rear van window."
5) Crawl into your bed around midnight, exhausted. Immediately get back out of bed. You are freezing cold, so you put on your absolute warmest pajamas and your fuzziest house coat, warm up a heat pack in the microwave, and crawl back into bed with your heat pack. Exchange some friendly banter with your husband as he crawls into bed and comments on your "stinky wheat" heat pack, which
has long been a hilarious bone of contention around here....LOL.
6) Husband comments, "Wow...it's cold in here. I'm going to go turn up the furnace."
7) Quip, "Yep, that's why the "stinky wheat" heat pack is a most-necessary bedtime accessory."
8) Husband suspiciously questions, "Why does our thermostat say it's 68 in here when it's supposed to hold at 70?" Husband proceeds to turn up thermostat and wait for furnace to kick in.
9) The furnace does not kick in.
10) Fiddle around with a few switches, check thermostat batteries. Try again.
11) Furnace still does not kick in.
12) Spend the next 3 hours attempting to get the furnace to turn on, going through manuals, and looking up troubleshooting furnace tips on the internet.
13) Discuss how a randomly exploding window AND a broken furnace all in the same night has contributed to it being a doozy of an evening.
Throw in the fact that
1) It's the weekend, so businesses are closed.
2) On Monday husband is working alone and has no lunch break for making phone calls or running errands.
3) Tuesday is Rememberance Day, so that means businesses are closed.
4) It's the first snowy, icy, cold week of the year. Thus, a broken furnace and smashed vehicle window are not exactly conducive to a comfortable, wintery week.
5) Husband has to travel for work this week on roads that will likely be less-than-ideal.
6) Car doesn't have winter tires on it yet...because
7) He was planning on driving the van that already has winter tires, but van is now out-of-commission for long travel due to window exploding and cold, snowy weather.
14) Gather electric heaters and throw on a few more blankets.
15) Crawl back into bed sometime after 3 a.m.
16) Get up with toddler and baby several times in four hours.
17) And...it's 7 a.m. Sunday. Good Morning!
Needless to say...we didn't make it to church....
18) Be extremely grateful for a kind and generous relative who has experience diagnosing furnaces and will come take a look at it and try to help, so we don't have to pay an exorbitant amount of money to hire someone to do it after normal business hours.
19) Find out the problem is likely that the circuit board is fried and that the 7 year warranty is 2 months expired.
20) Recall the several power surges that occurred in our city on Friday night and figure it likely wrecked our furnace.
21)Scratch your head, bewildered by what seems to be a series of rather unfortunate events.
22) Remind yourself, "In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you."
