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I had planned a romantic getaway for our anniversary.

• I had reservations made at a newly renovated hotel that was within walking distance of the beach.

There was a restaurant in the hotel my husband had been dying to try, and I had reservations., I had our bags packed and in the car when he got home. We were almost at the hotel when I saw a smile of recognition on his face. This was the same hotel we had gone to on our honeymoon. After riding in a car with the thermostat at sixty for the last three hours, the seventy-five degree lobby gave me a shiver. The further we walked, the shivers turned into perspiration, and I was having a difficult time breathing because of the humidity. I asked if there was a problem with the air conditioning, since it was warm and the humidity was dreadful. I was told the only place where the AC was working was in the restaurants. After lunch, we headed to the boardwalk to check out the scenery. It was so hot outside that we ended up in another hotel, enjoying the air conditioning. It was time to go back to our hotel and get ready for dinner, and I hoped they had the AC repaired, but it wasn’t to be. My husband and I didn’t unpack and right after dinner, we headed home. They said the AC was going to be down for the rest of the night and all I wanted to do was go home. They gave us all of my money back and we got a free two-night stay for anytime we wanted to return.

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My brother and I got our smart thermostat at the same time.

I needed to have a new HVAC system installed, and he had recently bought a new air conditioning unit.

It surprised me they hadn’t changed his thermostat when he got the AC unit, but it wasn’t acting up. Within a month of buying the AC unit, the thermostat broke. He thought there was something wrong with the AC unit because it quit working. When he found it was the fault of the thermostat, he was relieved. He bought a smart thermostat, not realizing it was exactly like mine. He and his wife Sally came over for dinner one Sunday and I saw him looking at my thermostat. I knew he and my husband had discussed it, but I ignore them most of the time. Sally and I were talking about the kids while I was getting dinner. I was just about to put dinner on the table when I realized my air conditioning wasn’t working. I went to the thermostat, and somehow the temperature had been reset to eighty degrees. I reset the thermostat to seventy-two and we all sat down to eat. We were halfway through dessert when I felt a chill in the air. I checked the thermostat and had been reset to sixty-five. I was ready to say something to my husband when he and my brother burst out laughing. They realized our thermostats were identical and my brother was using his phone app to change the temperature. I refused to talk to either ‌of them for the rest of the evening.

 

 

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I came home from work last week to overhear my parents arguing over the thermostat.

It seemed like the silliest argument I had ever heard them have. My mom wanted a smart thermostat when they had the new HVAC system installed, but dad said no. He liked his digital programmable thermostat. Mom told him what the HVAC technician had said about all the outstanding features of the smart thermostat. I could see my dad roll his eyes while she talked. He had heard this several times now, and he was tired of hearing her extoll all the features. He didn’t think we needed a smart thermostat, unless she just wanted another app on her phone. He certainly didn’t plan on extended vacations where he thought the HVAC system needed 24/7 monitoring. They took their vacations during the spring or fall, when there was no need for HVAC. Mom said it would make her feel more comfortable being away from the house. He told her to leave and he would monitor the HVAC system for her. I was trying not to laugh out loud, since they sounded so much like children arguing over toys. I walked into the living room and told them I liked the thermostat they already had. In mom’s words, why would we change something that isn’t broken? Mom gave me a dirty look because I had sided with her, and dad shook his head and walked away. I may only be sixteen, my I know I can be the voice of reason with my parents when they’re behaving like my five-year-old brother.

 

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I got home from work last week, and my husband and son were sitting in the house with no AC running.

I asked if there was a reason no one had turned on the air conditioning, and my husband said that it wasn’t working.

My first question was when was the HVAC technician going to arrive? I could see the question in his eyes before he even uttered it. He told me he was waiting for me to get home so I could call the HVAC company for a repair. My son informed me the air conditioning had only quit working about three hours earlier, and I told him that in that amount of time, had one of them thought to call the HVAC company, we could have already had the air conditioning unit repaired. My husband smiled and said that was a good thought, and it was too bad he didn’t think of it first. My son patted me on the back and told me I had a great idea, and he wished he had thought of it. I was speechless as I looked at both of them. My son was 18 years old, my husband was 40 years old, and neither of them had thought about calling the HVAC company. Instead, they sat in the house, in the heat, and waited for me to get home. I walked next-door to my best friend’s house, sat in her kitchen drinking iced tea, and waited for the HVAC technician, whom I called to come to the house and repair the air conditioning.

 

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Now that we’re into August, I knew it was time to call the HVAC company and have the furnace cleaned and prepared for winter.

• We can get some really chilly days in late August and throughout September in our area.

I didn’t want to turn on the furnace and find we had a problem. When I called the HVAC company, I hoped they didn’t send the same HVAC technician as I had when getting my air conditioning unit serviced in the summer. That HVAC technician was the most enigmatic man I’d ever met. I couldn’t get more than a one-word answer out of him whenever I asked ‌about the air conditioning unit. At one point, he didn’t even seem to acknowledge that I was talking to him. I walked into the house, and I was sure I heard a sigh of relief come out of his mouth, as if thanking the universe that I was gone. I had met a man who had very little to say, but he at least answered a question with a direct answer. He seemed to want to hide what he was doing, and I wondered if he would not try to rip me off. I later found out that my mysterious HVAC technician was hard of hearing. He only picked up half of what I was asking about the AC unit. Instead of admitting he had a hearing problem, he answered the question with an answer that would suit as long as the question only needed a simple yes or no answer. I knew it would embarrass me if the same HVAC technician showed up to work on my furnace.

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