I had to explain to my friend the difference between a real a/c and an evaporative cooler

Once your air reaches a certain moisture level, water evaporation screeches to a halt

My friend has a history of making bad purchases. I tried to dissuade him from going to a loan shark to get a car four years ago, but he was persistent. I’ll never forget the strange way I was notified of the ordeal. I was eating lunch at a local restaurant with a work colleague when I received a phone call from a number I didn’t recognize. When I answered, the person asked me if I knew the friend in question and whether or not I could give them a positive recommendation. I didn’t think any of it at first and I was happy to sing my friend’s praises. But when my friend called me a few minutes later to thank me, I was shocked to find out it was for the car loan application I told him to avoid. Unfortunately, the car was a lemon and was borderline totaled within 12 months from the sheer number of repairs it needed. He had no choice—he either had to pay off the loan regardless, or default on the loan altogether. It was a massive hit to his credit. When he came to me a year later to brag about scoring a new air conditioner for $100, my skepticism returned. I soon discovered that he bought a poorly built swamp cooler that was marketed as an air conditioner. Those are just fine in dry and arid climates where plenty of water can evaporate while making the air feel comfortable on top of being cool. But if you live in place like we do where the outdoor humidity is above 80%, the process of evaporation needed for the device to work cannot take place. It’s like adding water to a full glass, eventually there is no more room left. Once your air reaches a certain moisture level, water evaporation screeches to a halt. Yet again, my friend has wasted his hard earned money.

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