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My dad was a fake HVAC worker

I was raised in a very loving environment, although my family was very different from the other kids I knew. We were very private, mostly keeping to within the extended family, and didn’t interact with outsiders very often. The men of the family worked outside of the house, and the women ran everything else, including the little convenience stores in our garages. I would come to find out later that the men of the family were thieves, stealing stuff, and the women were fences, selling the stolen goods. All of the legitimate jobs my uncles and father held were cover stories to help them steal stuff, including my dad’s job as an HVAC technician. He wore the outfit of an HVAC tech, and drove a white panel van with the emblem of a furnace on the side. There was no writing, no company name, no phone number, just the picture of the furnace, so that he looked official without being official. Using the van and his outfit he would talk his way into housing developments and worksites so that he could steal the HVAC equipment. The funny thing is that he got to know a lot about heating and cooling systems, just from having unhooked and stolen so many of them over the years. Once or twice he took me along with him, but only to look at what AC equipment he was planning to steal. Either out of practicality or being a decent dad, he never stole any of the HVAC stuff when I was riding along with him.

 

 

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