You need coolin’

Posted on by Guy Jean
Shot in a closet with white walls showing an oscillating fan. The fan is surrounded by a variety of vinyl bags, folded flat, stacked up around and hiding the fan's stand from view.

I was sweating quite a bit when I got home this evening, but I didn’t quite feel like a shower, and Nana wasn’t hot enough to turn on the air conditioner. So I knew that it was time to get the oscillating fan out of the closet.

Shot in a closet with white walls showing an oscillating fan. The fan is surrounded by a variety of vinyl bags, folded flat, stacked up around and hiding the fan's stand from view.
Why you shine lite to my nest
A large pile of papers towels and vinyl bags
Trying to maintain some order
Interior of closet with packages of paper towels in a jumble
LOL order waht?
Interior of close with packages of paper towels arranged in neat rows.
Straighten up!
Interior of closet filled with layers of paper towels, vinyl bags, and more bags on top holding even more vinyl bags.
We did what we could
There was only one problem …

Nana’s mother has been nicking paper towels and vinyl bags from her place of work for the past several years, and ignoring our protests that we don’t need anything more. I’d taken some time several months back to attempt to arrange all the ill-gotten goods in some sort of order. Unfortunately, this was in the same cabinet where we kept the fan.

So, stripped to the waist, sweating like some sort of locomotive stoker or demonic minion, I set about removing enough of the vinyl detritus to unearth the fan (NB: all of it) and then to put it all back in some semblance of order.

I’m happy to report that enough time has now passed that I’m enjoying the fan’s breeze and not contemplating just shutting all the windows and turning on the air conditioner.

But it’s a near thing …