In article >,
"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote:

> "Pete C." > wrote in message
> >
> > Don't try to understand, it falls in the same category of women (not)
> > understanding how a thermostat works...
>
> You mean as in "turn it up higher so it will heat up faster"? Its a
> friggin switch, not a throttle.

My wife and I have fought this battle for decades.

Wife: I'm cold, I'm going to turn up the heat.

Me: No, the heater is already on. It won't get any hotter by turning
it up, it'll just get too hot later when you forget to turn it back down.

Wife: But I'm cold!

Our church doesn't have a building. We have a nice place that we rent
every Sunday, for the last five years.

My wife is always the first one there, and the last to leave. She has
stuff to set up and take down. So, in the winter, like now, she goes
extra early because the building is cold, and slow to heat up.

This year we had a Christmas eve service. My wife and daughter went
early, as they both had setup responsibilities. My son gave me a ride
and dropped me off right before the service. So afterwards I'm hanging
around waiting for my wife and daughter to finish, since it's too far to
walk. Finally, (they got lots of help), it's just the three of us. We
are almost ready, so I suggest to my wife that she turn off the heat
then, since we don't need to heat the hall for the three of us. So she
does. About five minutes later, my daughter suggests to my wife that
she shut off the heat. Well, it's already shut off, but the heater
doesn't realize it, and is going full blast. So the three of us wander
over to the thermostat, and my daughter asks my wife what she turned
off. She points to the fan switch. She had moved it from "auto" to
"on". My daughter points to the other switch, clearly set to "heat"
instead of "off". My daughter turns it off and then comments that the
heat is set to 85F! Now, the hall is slow to heat up, but turning the
setting to 85 clearly won't help. There were 90 people at this service.
90 people create a lot of heat, and I doubt the place even needed
heating once it was up to temperature and had 90 people in it.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA