So Uncool

If there is one thing I absolutely do not miss about New York it is window air conditioner units. They suck. They are a pain in the ass to take home, because you obviously don’t have a car in New York. They are noisy, very, very noisy. They leak. The only real area they make cold is a 6-foot straight stream directly in front of the machine. They are ugly. No, I don’t miss them. And, man, I love our central air conditioning in Texas. If I remember correctly, our two apartments in New York were host to Friedrich air conditioners — perhaps there was a Frigidaire in there too for good measure — a staple of the New York landscape. Friedrich has been making AC units since the early 1950s, and it had specialized in refrigerators prior to that, and designing furniture back