I was raised in a very romantic environment, although my family was easily weird from the other teenagers I knew… Every one of us were easily private, mostly keeping to within the extended family, and didn’t interact with outsiders easily often, and the boys of the family worked outside of the house, plus the women ran everything else, including the little convenience stores in our garages.
I would come to find out later that the boys of the family were thieves, stealing stuff, and the women were fences, selling the cheap goods they found, then all of the fair tasks my uncles plus father held were cover stories to help them steal certain things, including my dad’s task as an Heating as well as Air Conditioning worker, and she wore the outfit of an Heating as well as Air Conditioning tech, and drove a pale white panel van with the emblem of a heating system on the other side.
There was no writing, no company name, no cellphone number, only the picture of the heating system, so that she looked respected without being official, then using the van plus her outfit she would talk her way into housing developments and worksites so that she would be able to steal the Heating as well as Air Conditioning equipment. The funny thing is that she got to think a lot about heating plus cooling systems, just from having unhooked and stolen so many of them over the years, then once or twice she took me along with him, however only to look at what A/C equipment she was planning. Either out of practicality or being a fine dad, she never stole any of the Heating as well as Air Conditioning stuff when I was riding along with him.