Knowing about HVAC systems helped me win at trivia the other night when I was there with my friends.
It was the funniest thing because my friends think that I don’t really know much about anything. Unbeknownst to them, I grew up in a family of heating and cooling professionals. I spent every summer working on furnaces and air conditioning systems when I was a kid growing up in high school. I learned just about everything that there was to know about HVAC systems when I was young. Now, I’m in college and we don’t often have reasons to talk about HVAC systems! So most of my friends had no idea that I knew anything about the heating and cooling profession at all. Anyway, we were all there playing trivia and suddenly, they changed one of the categories to heating and cooling systems! I had never seen this category in trivia before, and my ears perked right up! My friends all thought that our team was going to lose at that point because none of them knew a thing about HVAC systems. However, I was there to save the day because I knew the answer to every single question that came up! I basically swept the entire category and everyone was just blown away by the fact that I am an expert on heating and cooling systems. I was pretty proud of myself, I have to say. I guess all of that time spent learning about HVAC systems wasn’t wasted after all! Who knows, maybe I will end up working in the HVAC industry someday myself.