Touchy family ruins AC
My family is incredibly challenging to be around.
It’s a lot of big personalities all shoved into one space. Things tend to explode. My family is also extremely particular and everyone thinks that they had no more than the rest. This can be a big problem when we have large gatherings, because nobody is happy. This is what happened recently when I made the mistake of having a big family party at my house. For some reason, I thought that we can all manage to get along these days. We are, after all, adults now. What I didn’t plan on was my entire family having diverse air temperature preferences in my house. Sure, it’s summer time so the outdoor air is pretty hot. That’s why I had the AC unit running at an easy 70 degrees. This felt pretty good to me, but I guess it wasn’t suiting the needs of the rest of my family. Not that they could reach an agreement among themselves. Instead, every member of the family took a turn on meandering over to the central thermostat and playing with the dials for a while. Everyone was getting their hands on the temperature control device, lifting the temperature a few degrees or dropping it back down. My AC unit had no idea what was going on. It was getting yanked all over the place running on high levels and low levels, being powered on and off all day long. At the end of this stupid family party, I had spent well over $50 just on energy costs, and Lord knows what happened to my AC unit long term.