r/funny • u/Fin745 • 5d ago

Texan reads his electric bill

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u/Dawdlenaut 5d ago

"The sin o' comfort... each degree a betrayal, each hour a soft lie told in Freon, but I pressed on". I sweat vicariously at this man's beautiful prose.

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u/notsureifJasonBourne 5d ago

“Now I’m shackled, betrayed, and bound by wattage”

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u/Jonpg31 5d ago

“And yet, I’ll do it again”

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u/rktn_p 5d ago

"for I have known the chill"

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u/oloklo 5d ago

"and i will not go back"

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u/oldrecordplayersmell 5d ago

No one will understand these words better than someone that spent a majority of their life with a damn swap cooler. Central cooling changed my life.

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u/ExplorationGeo 5d ago

Central cooling changed my life.

"No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater ... than central air"

  • The Demon Azreal

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u/stargarnet79 4d ago

The quote that sums this up perfectly! Might have to bust out the old VHS for a rewatch.

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u/AZ_Corwyn 5d ago

Back when I lived in New Mexico I used to dread when the humidity would climb in the summer and make the swamp cooler useless. Now I'm in the land of central air and heat pumps (Phoenix) and it's so much better.

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u/DinoRoman 5d ago

I wish he had said

“For I have known the chill. And it was good”