The Plantains


The air conditioner unit "just froze up solid" says the maintenance man and he adds that he's done just about all he can do for me.
Wiping the sweat from my face, I ask politely, "What do you think I should do, Brad? What would you do if this were your air conditioner?"
He seems completely stymied and I don't really know how to help him. The unit is less than a year old and it should work. We both know this to be true. He's going to come back tomorrow, but he keeps shaking his head as if to say, "What's the point, really?"
I want to tell him that it's going to be brutal frying up the plantains for #1 son's Nicaragua project in an 88 degree kitchen, but that seems like too much information. I'm sure he's done the best he can. Why make him feel worse than he already does?
Email Post

Comments

KC said…
this is worse than our situation of not having an air conditioner, as we don't ever expect it to work.

i can't believe yours doesn't work. that blows.
8:53 PM
Anonymous said…
Dearest Sisterwoman, one must have air conditioning!!! I think I got a hot flash just reading about no a/c and the frying of plantains. I think that both yours and ours went out around the same time last year. My a/c guy got a number off the side of the unit and called the company to check on the warranty. Of course the 5 year warranty was 4 months past it's limit, so we had to put in a new one. There are many days I can not put my hands on my car keys, my atm card, or my drivers license but I can tell you in my sleep where my new 5 year warranty on the a/c unit is located. It is the Holy Grail in this house!! Check yours out darling one!

Oh and to kc, technically I think it should be "that doesn't blow".
3:23 AM
Julie Anna said…
ha! I was just preparing to blog about the new room air con unit I bought (and installed myself - pat, pat) in the boy's room upstairs. Because by the time the upstairs is cool, the first floor is downright cold. I hate to turn the air on too soon because then we don't sit on the back porch as much as I'd like to. So it isn't on yet. But I nearly had heat stroke baking a pizza in a 500 degree oven on Sunday. When I went up to the boy's room later, he had it nicely chilled down to about 45 degrees. But I could crank up the AC if you want to come over and fry your plantains.
10:41 AM
Anonymous said…
Shouldn't we have a discussion about the absurdity of frying plantains for a project at school???
jw
10:10 PM
Anonymous said…
cocktails would make a great project - no matter the heat...
Just trying to help,
Bob
11:51 PM
Anonymous said…
I'm with Bob on this one! --- you could drool a little olive oil (high grade, of course) on the WARMEST floor in the house, pour yourself a chilled cocktail (per Bob), wait a while (til the floor preheats), and then just toss those sliced plantains down and see if they'll cook themselves!! If your cocktail is good'n chilled, you shouldn't really mind whether the food turns out too al dente! -- Bon apetite
12:51 PM
LH said…
The plantains were so bad. Not sure where we went wrong.
But when i went to the world cultures fair at the school next day i was pleased, sort of, to taste another kid's plantains and they were way worse than ours. I had to spit her plantains out in to a napkin. I did it discretely of course.
Another kid offered me some type of weird bready thing from peru i think. As I was chewing it she said, "It has a weird after taste because the yeast and baking soda interact in the wrong way." Before she finished her sentence, I learned she was on the money. The food from other countries just isn't very good I guess.
6:23 PM
Post a Comment

Popular Posts