Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for March 08, 2025

That’s very telling.

Anything Can Be Fixed With The Right Conditioning

(Our AC has been broken for two years. My husband has been promising to get it repaired by an AC technician at his work, but keeps forgetting to arrange it. With the weather being hotter than usual, I resort to making an air cooler from Internet instructions. He comes home from work to find me sitting in front of the cooler with the cool air blowing on my face.)

Husband: “What are you doing? That’s never going to cool the place!” laughs

(I look up and glare at him before putting my face back to the tiny stream of cool air.)

Husband: stops laughing “Oh.” grabs his phone and makes a call “Hi, [Technician], I’m calling about fixing our AC. Is there any chance of getting it done soon? You should see what my wife has resorted to doing.”

(He describes what I did and how funny I look. I glare at him again.)

Husband: “Could we get it done really soon, please? I’m getting a bit scared by the way she is looking at me.”

(They had it fixed the next day.)

At the grand opening of our new training building some corporate weasel borrowed a tape measure from me. It turned out that not only were the supervisor’s offices too big for their paygrade but also didn’t rate windows. So they gutted that floor, putting the now-smaller offices in the center surrounded by cubicles. But our management didn’t want to reward us cubicle rats with a view of the Niantic River and Bay so they had cubicle walls installed against the windows. That was fine until the winter when everyone started freezing because the heat was trapped between the cubicle wall panels and the windows. And the fact that the thermostat was in my cubicle and directly above my old CRT monitor. It didnt take long for those walls to come down and I suddenly had a view of the bay.

Gray Power!

When our office was open we had a lock put on the hvac controls. Prior to that it was like the the wild west of temperatures.

Air conditioning must be one of those terms that is called differently in different regions. It’s A/C here, but my daughter has lived where they call it air con.

Well, it depends on the office. In my office I controlled the setting, but in my bosses office, right next door, he controlled the setting. Each office had its own thermostat.

Don’t touch the settings, Aunty!

Yes, you will find out which secretary it is!

LOL, when I used to attend large required continuing education workshops, there would always be some who complained the room was too warm, and others who complained it was too cold. 100% of the time, however, the complainers were middle aged, postmenopausal women.

I worked inside the dairy box stocking shelves for many years and have been retired for 8 years, I don’t like the cold, the house is at a constant 70 F and 69 when I go to bed, any colder and my left shoulder would ache. Good thing I have a small house that does not take much to heat, a friend of mine calls it the crib for its size lol

So you think you’re in charge.

………or mess with the coffee pot!!!!