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66 sats \ 6 replies \ @crrdlx 11 May \ parent \ on: What's something your significant other believes that you find ridiculous? AskSN
Since this is now an a/c debate thing...suppose the inside temp is 80, my wife feels that setting the thermostat low, at say 70, cools things faster than setting it at say 75. I explain that a thermostat is nothing but an on/off switch, like a light switch on the wall, and is either on (and the ac runs) or it is off (and the ac does not). Setting it at 70, or 60, or 32 makes no difference in how fast the house cools...the ac will be switched on (and run) until meeting the set temp. She still says setting it lower means cooling faster. I believe she feels a lower set temp means blowing colder air.
Some thermostats have an option for low and high settings which adjusts the amount of air blown. It never blows colder air.
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My advice. Some battles aren't worth it. Just let her set the temp lower and then when the temp gets to the level you desire set it at that.
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Words of wisdom right there. I will say this...my wife has excellent intuition. That sounds kind of sexist maybe, the whole "women's intuition" thing, but I believe it. Once we had car trouble, and she comes right out without looking at anything and is like, "I think it's the alternator." Understand, the car was doing something totally unrelated, like a clutch issue or something. I don't recall the exact symptom or problem, but her proposed problem had seemingly nothing at all to do with what the vehicle was showing. I wish I could recall what exactly it was, but when I got into fixing things, somehow she had been right. In the oddest way, something crazy like the clutch line broke loose and was wrapped around the alternator. That's not what happened, but I think you see my point. Somehow, without knowing, she still knew. I've learned to try to listen better even when it doesn't make sense to me.
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My wife has great narrative intuition. There have been several occasions where she's been able to very accurately predict the entire plot of a movie just from seeing the DVD cover (remember those?). In particular, I remember her nailing Starship Troopers very precisely.
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This is definitely something my wife does too. It bothers me more in the car, because then I have to adjust it back while driving and she gets annoyed because she takes that as a criticism of how she does the AC (which it is, I suppose).
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