Too nice.

I am much too nice for my own (or my family's) good. Our furnace is not running. The furnace room is in the basement. With the Tennants (house guests) I knocked on the door between the kitchen and the basement twice, tried to call the house phone (which they use---it rang and rang and rang) Nothing. Thier truck is out front, it's too cold to walk anywhere, and I am pretty damn sure they're down there. But, have I pounded on the floor, the door or barged down there? Nope. I am trying to be civilized, and allow them to maintain at least the delusion of privacy and dignity. And I am freezing my ass off. It is 50 degrees in the house now.(they run space heaters downstairs, so probably have not noticed the furnace stopped working)

Sigh.