Learner
09-28-2002, 01:46 AM
I went on a service call to a fast food restaurant to repair a walk in freezer that was warm. The freezer was pretty small; barely room to stand inside and turn around, with the food that was stored inside. It might have been about 5 feet square. The box was pretty warm, and the light was on, so before going to the roof to check the condensing unit, I decided to give this little freezer all the help I could, by turning the light off until I determined why the unit quit cooling.
I pushed on the wall switch inside the door, which is protected by the typical rubber seal that keeps moisture out. The light didn't go off, so I pushed it again. Hmm, the light remained on, so I pushed it a few more times before deciding to forget it, and get on with my job of getting this unit to start cooling. I went on up to the roof.
I found a dirty condenser and an overheated compressor, so I decided to go down to my truck and get a garden hose to cool off the compressor and wash the condenser. After getting the hose, and walking back toward the back door of the fast food place, I noticed a man on foot entering the parking lot, almost running, and approaching the building with what looked like a rifle or shotgun. He definitely caught my attention, as I was about to open the back door. He saw me with the garden hose over my shoulder, looking at him, and he yelled at me "Don't enter the building, there's a robbery in progress!"
I walked back over by my van and he went inside, then almost immediately two guys came out the front door with what looked like a couple of sack of food, and got in a car and began driving off. I quickly pulled out my pocket notebook and wrote down the car license plate number. They saw me, and put the car in reverse and drove up by me and said "What are you doing?"
I don't know what came over me, but I am such a truthful person, that I simply answered, "There's a robbery in progress inside the restaurant, and I just thought I'd write your license plate number down, because you looked suspicious." They said, "Well, it's not us" and slowly drove away.
Immediately after that, the plain clothes sheriff came out and told me "It was a false alarm. Somebody must have accidentally bumped the alarm switch inside the walk-in freezer."
No wonder that stupid light wouldn't go off when I pushed that switch! :)
I pushed on the wall switch inside the door, which is protected by the typical rubber seal that keeps moisture out. The light didn't go off, so I pushed it again. Hmm, the light remained on, so I pushed it a few more times before deciding to forget it, and get on with my job of getting this unit to start cooling. I went on up to the roof.
I found a dirty condenser and an overheated compressor, so I decided to go down to my truck and get a garden hose to cool off the compressor and wash the condenser. After getting the hose, and walking back toward the back door of the fast food place, I noticed a man on foot entering the parking lot, almost running, and approaching the building with what looked like a rifle or shotgun. He definitely caught my attention, as I was about to open the back door. He saw me with the garden hose over my shoulder, looking at him, and he yelled at me "Don't enter the building, there's a robbery in progress!"
I walked back over by my van and he went inside, then almost immediately two guys came out the front door with what looked like a couple of sack of food, and got in a car and began driving off. I quickly pulled out my pocket notebook and wrote down the car license plate number. They saw me, and put the car in reverse and drove up by me and said "What are you doing?"
I don't know what came over me, but I am such a truthful person, that I simply answered, "There's a robbery in progress inside the restaurant, and I just thought I'd write your license plate number down, because you looked suspicious." They said, "Well, it's not us" and slowly drove away.
Immediately after that, the plain clothes sheriff came out and told me "It was a false alarm. Somebody must have accidentally bumped the alarm switch inside the walk-in freezer."
No wonder that stupid light wouldn't go off when I pushed that switch! :)