Rich Texan Boomer Criticizes HVAC Technician for Parking His Truck in the Shaded Area of The Driveway

Emmy Pratt • Writer and Editor

Jul 6, 2026 8:30 PM EDT

Whatever happened to asking workers politely to move their car?

If you are fortunate enough to be able to afford workers regularly coming to your house to maintain your property, you know that you should treat them with dignity and respect if you want them to do a good job. If you live in a rich neighborhood with no shortage of households that are willing to pay top-dollar for a gardener or a cleaner, you're a dime a dozen. A blue-collar worker can easily quit if they have enough clients, and your household is too much of a pain to continue.

Unfortunately, not all workers have the option to pick and choose their clients. Sometimes, they have to keep working with the biggest jerks in the world because that's the only way they're going to pay their bills. The boomer in this story is not a dream of a client to work with, because he was super passive-aggressive about an HVAC worker parking his truck in the shaded area of his giant driveway. It's like these people are looking for things to get mad about.

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*An HVAC worker makes repairs in the walls of a rich, entitled Texan Boomer's house.*
*_{The photo depicts events that may or may not be fictional.}*

Entitled, rich, boomer customers are the worst customers to work with as an blue collar worker.

I work as an HVAC technician, so my workplace is other people's houses or sometimes businesses. I was at some big fancy house doing a regular maintenance on their three HVAC systems. Pretty much the

entire time I was there until I was leaving, only his wife was home, very sweet woman, gave me a bottle of cold water. I was just writing up my notes in my truck when up the

driveway comes the husband. He has his window down like he wanted to say something to me so I roll mine down; and in the sh tone possible, he asks me, "I'm just trying to figure out

what caused you to park where you did." It's true, I had parked in his large driveway in a kind of awkward spot, under the only tree around, so my truck wouldn't be 1000° when I got

back into it after working out in the heat. It's pretty don hot outside here in Texas right now. So naturally, I simply answered, "well it was in the shade." He kind of just looks forward, completely at a loss for words,

*A long, wide driveway, where two cars could easily park, albeit one more in the shade than another.*
*_{The photo serves to aid in visualization for the reader. It is not a real photo of the house described in the story.}*

then starts ranting about how he built this big driveway with all the space over there so one wouldn't block the garage. "Now where are you going to go so I can get in my garage?!"

Without another word I just turned my head, put the truck in gear and accelerated down the driveway. Finished the invoice. Quoted him high for the several needed repairs and left.

*An invoice for the work the HVAC employee did, with a small extra charge due to the boomer customer's unfriendly behavior.*
*_{The image is a representation of the invoice, not the real invoice.}*

I kind of regret not saying something satisfying to him, but you have your hands tied at work. Rich guy with a fancy gold membership. Feel like more and more I'm only ever serving rich Boomers in their

overly large houses. I just want to help regular people but less and less get to. Also kind of annoyed with myself that I'm still holding onto this. That guy really got under my skin.

Do you think that the boomer had a point about the worker parking in a way that blocks the garage door? Should he have just politely asked him to move his truck? Or should he have parked in the sunny part of the driveway until the worker was finished with the job, and then moved his car into the driveway later?

JayOnSilverHill Rip them off every chance you get so you can lowball other more deserving customers

Divinelntent Came here to say exactly this. As a salesmen they are my bread and butter. Not only do they have enough money to buy premium, they typically have such a fragile hold on their masculinity that you can get them to buy the best products just to prove they can. Don't need to rip them off, just upsell them to what the jones have, then sell the good people what they need and nothing else.

Slumunistmanifisto Once went to a busted water line in a mansions lawn. "Our prices were too high", I saw bottles of wine in their racks worth more than the quote. They were also spewing thousands of gallons a day underground, on top of a hill, above a neighborhood.

Thrawnbelina I was in competitive gymnastics as a teen, my first job was coaching little kids and I LOVED it. They were adorable, excited, and willing 90% of the time. Sometimes they were a little nervous, and thats totally normal and ok! We're a sport built on progression and risk management through tons of mats to crash on after all. At the toddler stage its all about teaching body awareness, coordination, and shapes we rely on for more difficult skills down the road. Most parents understand t

The rich entitled ones were always the problem. Their kids were not allowed to face their fears gently, they were all supposed to be Nastia Liukin at 4 or 5. A Pepsi exec started laying into me about why her kid wasn't doing back handsprings, full on entitled b rant about how she tolerates bad wifi and expects more during class. I was like "Ma'am, your child came to me not knowing how to skip and can now walk ON HER HANDS." And then walked away. I'm still living off that high

Regular-Ad1814 Your response was too polite. Mine would have been, "other gymnastics clubs are available"

PenelopeJenelope I'm still mad at some jerks I served coffee to as a barsita in the 90s.... Don't let it get under your skin for too long. Some people are jerks. You handled it well, no need to regret not stooping to his level.

BabsSuperbird I worked for a j like that and he yelled at his wife the same way he yelled at me. It was awful.

Zestyclose-Cover1351 guess I am a not-rich boomer because I would never off a trade worker. I know the do anything to quality of their work, not to mention whether they show up next time, depends on whether they think I'm a complete j. Maybe its harder to find a decent trade-person where I live.

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Rich Texan Boomer Criticizes HVAC Technician for Parking His Truck in the Shaded Area of The Driveway

Whatever happened to asking workers politely to move their car?

Entitled, rich, boomer customers are the worst customers to work with as an blue collar worker.

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