When I told my girlfriend that I had to work late on Friday, she was aggravated and annoyed. We were supposed to have dinner with her mom and dad in the city. They were only in town for the night, and they wanted to meet me. I wanted to meet them too, but I couldn’t tell my boss that I had to leave early to go to dinner with my girlfriend’s parents. The guy would have laughed and told me to date on my time, not his. When I arrived at work Friday morning, I looked at the schedule. Davis and I were scheduled to install an air purifier in the morning. Davis is my partner at the HVAC company where I work. Everyone works in pairs so there are always two sets of hands and two sets of eyes on every job. I didn’t think the air purifier installation job would take all day, but Davis and I ran into a ton of problems. We had the wrong equipment to complete the job and the customer wasn’t ready for the installation appointment. Everything that could go wrong, did. When the job was finished, the boss sent us out to install a ductless HVAC unit. I knew the HVAC unit would take hours, so I called my girlfriend to give her the bad news. She yelled and screamed and then hung up on me. I wasn’t going to fight with her at work, so I turned the phone on silent for the rest of the afternoon. When we were finally done, I had seventeen angry text messages from my girlfriend.