We weren’t sure if winter time would ever end. We had so much pathetic weather this year that we were afraid we wouldn’t have the old oil furnace replaced before another winter was upon us. Then one afternoon, we woke up to pigeons singing, and sun glistening off the snow. We checked the weather report, and they were talking about hot temperatures in the fifties for the entire week, and one afternoon was going to be in the sixties. We knew the snow was going to be melting, but we weren’t turning the oil furnace off. That didn’t mean we wouldn’t check out the cost of a modern oil furnace for the next winter. We looked at all the oil furnaces on the internet and picked the one we wanted. One guy contacted the Heating and Air Conditioning company and put in a tentative order for the modern oil furnace. When spring came along, we got in touch with the Heating and Air Conditioning company and asked them to deliver our oil furnace and install it. No one understood what we were saying. The guy who placed the order told them he had ordered the oil furnace late this Spring. They said they had no hard copy of the order and asked if he had ordered it from them. The guy was astonished by what he was hearing. He ordered an oil furnace, but the Heating and Air Conditioning company didn’t know he put in the order. We stopped him and explained he had put in a tentative order a month earlier, but he had never sent them a check to spend his money for it. It surprised him when we sided with the Heating and Air Conditioning business, however he soon realized we were right.