Not even a leaf stirred on the roadside trees as the sun blazed down on my idling car. I turned up the AC to help combat the additional heat that usually accompanies a midday traffic jam in Penang.
But instead of cool blasts of air, the AC began emitting waves of heat. I turned every knob on my dashboard that could be turned but nothing could persuade my AC to blow cold. I grumbled out loud. Just last week, my bedroom air conditioning was giving me trouble, and now this.
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