Stop in for a cup of coffee

All this hvac talk reminded me to change my filter. Our old system has a non working electronic filter. It was just 2 sheets of wire mesh. The mesh cavities are only 3/4" so a standard filter won't fit. I have to smash a regular filter flat and trim the edges.
Last Wednesday morning my tenant texted me and told me the system for the upstairs in the house was not working. She only heard a humming noise. Lol. But she knew I was going away to Carlisle for 4 days. I told her I'd check it when I got back. So I was checking it yesterday and my son came by and was helping me. Looks like the fan won't run outside so I believed it was just a capacitor. Sure enough. We pulled the capacitor and tested it and it's no good. Well my Son had his daughter/ my granddaughter with him, so he went home. So he calls a guy he knows fairly well that does HVAC, asks him if he has a capacitor on his truck. Guy says yup he sure does. So this guy stops by here about an hour later with the capacitor which I've already taken out and it's already all apart. Now I'm assuming that this guy knew that I was Matthew's father and supposedly this is a friend of my son. I didn't ask anything. I just let him put the capacitor in it. We fired the system up and it ran well. So I asked him what I owe you?. This friggin guy says $300. I said Whaaat !!! Almost in the same breath I wanted to tell him to take it out and get in his truck and leave the property. But I didn't. I gave him $250. I'm just waiting for "that" guy to need some automotive work done...#&@#@!!@#$