I went back to the internet to do more research, and discovered that I was just an idiot, because I have an electric water heater that doesn’t use a pilot light.
Every day I take a shower, as hot as possible. Unlike my wife, who will stay under the water for half an hour or longer, I am in and out in under five minutes. I rinse, I scrub, and I wash my beard and then I’m done. Going bald at an early age cut down on my shower time, because I no longer needed to worry about shampoo and conditioner! I enjoy taking a scalding hot shower right after work, because I emerge feeling relaxed and recharged for a fun evening. When the hot water heater stopped working, my daily routine got thrown out of whack. I don’t know the first thing about water heaters, but I knew there should be a pilot light. I removed the front panel from the water heater and looked inside, but could see no little flame. I went back to the internet to do more research, and discovered that I was just an idiot, because I have an electric water heater that doesn’t use a pilot light. The pilot light is only used on the traditional water heaters that run on natural gas or propane. It turns out there was a problem with the wiring, and since I know as little about fuses as I do about water heaters, I knew this was out of my league. I had to bite the bullet and call an HVAC repair company to have an expert fix it for me. Thankfully it’s a lot cheaper to fix a water heater than it is to fix a central HVAC system, because the cost wasn’t too bad.