Contractors, who depend on other trade professionals to get
all or a portion of their jobs done, hate being subjected to
mumbo jumbo. Of course, pride often prevents the contractor
from confessing a lack of fluency in mumbo jumbo. Instead, he
or she will defer to the presumed expertise of the trade professional
with nods of the head and the occasional, “I see,”
cementing the relationship of trust and ignorance. Reasonable
and intelligent questions are addressed with reasonable and
intelligent replies, but in a foreign language.
The Heat of the Moment
If there were more books like How Come? Hydronic Heating
Questions We’ve Been Asking For More Than 100 Years (with
straight