My parents are super particular about their heating and air conditioning settings.
When I was still living under their roof they had some very very strict directions about who could and couldn’t touch the thermostat settings, and basically my parents and grandparents were the only people who had access to the heating and air conditioning settings.
I tried increasing the temperature one evening when my parents went to bed and I thought I would get away with it, but my parents discovered the change as soon as they woke up and the lake house was much too cold. They grilled my sister and I to find out who changed the temperature and I eventually caved in and told them that it was me, I was the culprit and guilty as charged. I was grounded for several weeks, which worked well at keeping me from ever touching the thermostat settings again. Now that I’m a grown adult, I still don’t touch their thermostat settings. However, last weekend while I was going to see my parents, I accidentally left the back door open for hours and nobody noticed. When I finally realized my mistake, I panicked just thinking about all the heat that had escaped through the door. For weeks I was upset about the heat loss and how much energy my parent’s gas furnace had to burn that fateful day. I was convinced that if my parents noticed a higher utility bill they’d discover what I had done and reprimand me once again for it. I felt so stupid becuase I was fearful over accidently leaving the door open and my parent’s heat bill being higher. Of course they never said anything to me about it because they would have no way of knowing who did it.
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