[Editor’s note:When News editor John R. Hall wrote an editorial asking readers to relate some of their more bizarre experiences in the field, service technician Terry Warner of La Crosse, Kan. answered the call. His trilogy of tales follows.]
The customer said every morning around 5 a.m., when the furnace first came on, it would make the most terrible “tat-tat-tat” noise. It was so loud, it would wake him out of a deep sleep. The customer explained that he had replaced the water heater, thinking it was about ready to go, and he had believed the noise was coming from it. Still the noise persisted.