She gave me a blanket, a hot cup of coffee, and turned the electric fireplace on to give me some warmth
I was driving north to spend time with my family last year. It was the Christmas holidays, and I took three weeks of work off and headed home. I missed the snow and cold that came with our area, and I was hoping to go skiing. I was about 100 miles from home when the heater in my car broke. With the HVAC system, I got so cold my teeth were chattering. I stopped at a service station to see if they could repair the HVAC system, but no one was available. They told me there should be someone available to do HVAC work at their next service station, which was only thirty miles down the road. I figured if I could make it another thirty miles, I may as well go home and take the car to our local service station. I knew they had people there that could do HVAC repairs. I turned off the HVAC system, knowing my windows would ice, but I didn’t want the cold air blowing on me. By the time I got home, I was so cold, I couldn’t feel my nose, and I was sure I had cracked one of my teeth from the violent shivering. I couldn’t even talk when I got home, and my mom was worried. She gave me a blanket, a hot cup of coffee, and turned the electric fireplace on to give me some warmth. She called the local service station, and they took the car to replace the broken HVAC system. It was so nice to be home.