Last week, we ended up winning a trivia contest at a bar because our friend Charlie knew the answer to a random question about the history of the air conditioner.
This was one of the strangest things that I have ever heard of! Charlie knows about a lot of things, but I never in a million years thought that Charlie would know anything about this. She knew the name of the device’s inventor, and when Charlie answered properly, we all just stopped and stared at him in awe and disbelief. At that point, our trivia team was down. If we did not answer correctly, we were out of the competition, but when I saw what the question was, I thought for sure we were out. It was a bummer because we had been doing so well in the competition series. Then, all of a sudden, Charlie rang in. Was this a mistake, I wondered. I thought that she had accidentally rang in and that we were completely out of luck. Then, she answered the question and she knew the right name! My jaw hit the floor when she answered that question properly; then later on, after we had won the competition, we were asking Charlie, how in the world did she know this. Her dad was an Heating, Ventilation, and A/C worker when she was growing up, and, for fun, she used to study all about heating and cooling systems when she was a kid.