When I was a kid and all of us in our family found out that my dad was being moved for his job to the sunny South, our family was beyond excited! The reason for this was, that we lived in the north where it is very cold.
- My parents were also very cheap with running the heating system, so it was not very warm in our home.
My siblings and I talked happily for the whole automobile trip, dreaming of how much fun all of us were going to have in the sunshine, but it was still wintertime when we all had moved and the bunch of us were looking forward to escaping the freezing weather and the need for having heating; Our first few months in our modern home in the South were perfect, but the Winter weather was lovely and the home was the perfect temperature with no gas furnace or any sort of heating going. By the time the tepid hot summer time rolled around, though, every single one of us found out that my parents were as cheapo about running the air conditioning as they had been about running the gas furnace up north. The thermostat’s temperature control was kept at 89 degrees and the air conditioning just didn’t keep the place cool at all. My siblings and I spent most of our summers at the pool since all of us barely had the comfort of air conditioning in our house! Now that I’m an adult, I happily go and pay the extra money on my energy bills to run the air conditioning nice and cold all summer time and keep the gas furnace going full blast all winter time long! No one can stop me!