Some time ago, there was a girl who was afraid of men, let's call her "Tia" to protect her privacy .She had no problem being with men, when they were outside, it's the men who live alone that she is worried about, because they wanted only one thing from her. Yes, she was even afraid of me.
One day in 60 degree weather her furnace quit working, I heard a knock on my door, it was "Tia" and she asked me, but still afraid of me, if I would try to fix her furnace. I told her yes, and also said she won't owe me a thing, I will just do it, just out of kindness.
So I got my tool box and we went to her house . I have check had her thermostat, it check out okay, then I open the furnace door, turn the thermostat on the lowest setting, turn the pilot off, and started to run the furnace, to purge out the unused gas, for about 10 minutes.
Then I was ready to relight the pilot, so I turn its knob to pilot, and tried to light it with no anvil. I told "Tia" you may need a new thermocouple and told her not to worry they're less than $5 (they're nothing but copper tubing). In fact, I had a few thermocouples in my tool box. After installing the new thermocouple, I again purged the unused gas out, and then lit the pilot and it work.
I told "Tia" it will probably take 3 to 5 minutes for the burners to light, each time. because it has to make sure all the unused gas is purged from it. I turn the thermostat up to 76 and it work ."Tia"now can stay warm; "Tia" even tough still scare of me and still keeping her distance said "thank you" and I told her she's welcome and just went home.
After a few weeks "Tia" knock on my door and when I answered it, she ask me if I wanted to join her and her sister for dinner, just to say "thank you", I accepted the offer and about a couple of months, after that, she got comfortable with me and we became platonic friends ever since.
In fact whenever "Tia" wanted to talk to me, she now walks closer to me. It took her awhile for her to trust me, but she knows now I won't do anything or say anything that would make her uncomfortable.(end)
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