Greg,
I know exactly what you mean. I live in the
Northeast and lucky for me I live in my own
house. If the temperature is not 80° in the
shade, I stay in the house with the heat turned
on -- even if it's midsummer. I've stopped going
over to my relative's for the holidays because
they all keep their houses too damn cold! They
think 72° is hot. They would raise the heat when
I came over, but I got sick and tired of everyone
saying "why is it so damn hot in here?" So I know
what you mean. I've learned you can't ask other
people to be uncomfortable because of yourself.
They feel miserable and you feel guilty. At the
last two thanksgiving holidays, I spent the
evening sitting alone in the den by the woodstove
while everyone else partied in the main part of
the house with the windows open. That's when I
said to myself from now on, I'm staying in my house for the holidays.
Even now, when people come over to visit they
always remark. Sure is hot in here! To which I
reply -- sure is! So no more begging or
complaining about other peoples' household heat
for me - I just stay home. Normies just don't get it.
Dan
At 07:36 PM 3/20/2011, greg said something that elicited my response:
Now that our weather is warming up here in AZ, I'm getting colder.
As our heat goes up, the more everyone else here
gets warm and wants the A/C turned on. So now I
need 15 minute heat timeouts to go outside and
warm up. Even if the A/C is not too low, it is
still the same cold air blowing out, just not as
long. That cold air on my arms is freezing even
if it's set at 80. I often need long sleeve
shirts when it's warm. It's worse the hotter it
gets. Summers of 110 get real bad. The A/C is on
so much it gets too cold inside, then too hot to sit outside.
Greg
