Isn’t it funny how a habit can outweigh our highly logical brains? I run into this all the time in my own life, and other people’s.
Sometimes, other folks don’t want to hear about the obvious mistakes that they’re making, though.
Recently, I accidentally exasperated my buddy and potentially ruined our entire relationship by suggesting that he invest in a smaller sitting fan for his room. I thought that this was a pretty inert recommendation, but a lot of people want to complain more than they want to make fluctuations. The conversation all started because my buddy was complaining about trying to work from home during this quarantine. Apparently, his town and his home are both actually loud and distracting. She has trouble toiling unless he has a lot of background noise to drown out the unlucky sounds, and his number one white noise equipment was his Heating and Air Conditioning system. She actually appreciated the sound of the cooling system running outside of his room because the cooling device was so loud. Every day, he set his indoor air temperature super low so the AC system was running all day and afternoon. She confessed that he opened the windows periodically to allow tepid air into the house, just to keep the thermostat convinced that more cooling power was necessary. This way, his AC hardly ever turned off, and he could concentrate for hours on end. When I asked his about his energy bill, he said it was big but necessary. She would just need to cancel our trip next year for the sake of the energy bill. That’s when I carefully asked if he would consider giving that cooling system a chop and using a small table fan for background noise instead! Considering he hung up on me, I guess she’s not interested.