When it comes to costs, whether it’s the cost of auto repair, or a procedure from the veterinarian for our pet, or like here, for the repair of an appliance, we’re all at the mercy of the person telling us that something costly needs to be done is honest. I’m no expert on house furnaces and even if I knew something about them, do I really want to take the chance that this guy was bullshitting me?  I mean, my house was a freezer, was I really going to quibble not only about the cost, but even if this electric board really needed replaced? Situations like this, which we encounter a lot throughout our lives, become even more magnified when we have no idea if we’ll have enough money to live on, in the coming months.

But I gotta tell ya, the house was very, very toasty from that point on!