Car air conditioning

One warm day we were in the car, on a very long journey, very long indeed, it was all of one and a half hours. We quickly noticed that the air conditioning wasn’t working in my car. It was warm but not excessively warm. It was a Sunday, we were on a family day out heading to a tourist attraction heritage site that we hadn’t visited in years. It could have been enjoyable.

She complained. She complained, and then she complained some more, and then some more ( #vitriol #belligerent ) . The entire journey was all about the air conditioning not working. I was to blame apparently for not looking after my car well enough ( #blame-shifting ) . Oh wait, no, now it’s my mechanic brother that’s to blame for not fixing it before it stopped working when he serviced the car ( #blame-shifting #triangulation ) .

Three weeks later she became ill. The doctor allegedly blamed the air conditioning incident ( #manipulation #triangulation ) . Yup, even three weeks later, no doubt about it, the air-conditioning incident was definitely to blame ( #blame-shifting #manipulation ) .

Now, even months later, I’m reminded of this almost daily, how horrible and neglectful I was to make her sick like that ( #blame-shifting #smear-campaign #victim-playing ) .