My sister Kim got a boiler as her new heating system for her house last winter.
- I told her as soon as she got it that I was no longer going to be over there to babysit my nieces and nephews for her because I’m terrified of boilers.
My sister knows good and well that I am super scared of boilers. She knows that they make me nervous and that I don’t want to be around them. When she was looking for a new heating system last year, I told her to get anything other than a boiler! Of course, that isn’t what she did, though. She never listens to me, that’s for sure. She laughed when I told her that, but she obviously did not realize how serious I was about it. I have always been afraid of boilers from the time I was a little kid. Just the name boiler makes me feel really nervous. It seems to me that a boiler could get too hot or too overpressurized and then it could just blow your house up. I really don’t know that much about boilers, and I don’t know anything about the safety precautions that come with them, either. I just know that I don’t want to be near one. When Kim said that the new boiler was installed, it really made me mad. She should have listened to me when I told her my feelings about boilers! I can’t believe that she went out and got one anyway. I mean it’s her house, but if she wants me to babysit her kids for her then she’s going to have to bring them to my house where I have a nice safe electric furnace.