Heating Plant!

Haha, Stephanie tagged me in her blog to do this photo-meme and I thought it would be fun to do it! I had to open my first photo folder, upload the 10th photograph and post the story behind it. Here is that photo:


This actually has a pretty funny story! Freshman year of college, Shannon and I lived in Walker Hall - the second oldest residence hall at ISU. (So, rickety and old are the key thoughts there.) Well, one night our heater started making these HORRIBLE noises around 4am.... screetching, squeaking, WAILING.... it was awful. We tried to get help from the RA on duty, but they couldn't do anything for us. So for 4 hours, we sat awake, staring at each other because it was so loud we couldnt sleep.

That morning, we placed a work order and they had to refer it to the Heating Plant. Chris, the mechanic, came to our room at 8am (while we were in our PJs) and did not leave until around 4pm that day. We were in and out of the room for class, etc.... and at one point I left him a note saying "Dear Chris, we <3 you. Thanks for helping us!" on a post-it note on the wall above the heater.

This is what he posted on our door's dry erase board when he left that day! Haha :) He was awesome, he only left for a 20 minute lunch that day! What a guy!!

We ended up with like.... 12 new parts to our heater because he kept finding more problems, which is probably what honestly kept him there so long! But man, what a day.

Oh Walker Hall!!! :)