My dad was there when I had a heating and air conditioning technician over at my place, and he was there to tell me to take advantage of their HVAC emergency service because one day it could benefit me.
He was not wrong, but at that time, I was pretty hard to convince because in order to get the HVAC emergency plan you had to shell out extra money.
My father pulled me aside and convinced me further how it would be a great idea, and told me multiple times when my siblings and I were growing up, how we didn’t have to experience frigid nights due to the HVAC emergency plan. I had vague memories of my dad having an A/C professional come out to the house whenever the heating unit stopped, but I didn’t know that that was the HVAC emergency service at play. My father asked me whether a HVAC specialist would be coming out at 9:00 at night? Which I realized they wouldn’t, so at that time I reluctantly agreed to pay extra for eventual HVAC emergency service. My worst fear was that I would never use it, and that it would be a waste of money, but my father assured me it wouldn’t. I still was in doubt, but years later when the air conditioning system went out during a heat wave, I didn’t fret and called the HVAC corporation. They had a HVAC specialist out in less than 30 minutes and the HVAC unit was fixed in the same hour, so it was money well spent, especially considering the HVAC businesses are usually booked.