Classic from the Mrs! Vol 2
Discussion
It's been mild for the last couple of days and as I passed the thermostat I noticed it had been turned down to 0°C.
We had a thread on this very subject last autumn too, and the consensus was that there should be a dummy set of controls and thermostat for the lady of the house to fiddle with to her heart's content, while you have it under your control via a smartphone app.
We had a thread on this very subject last autumn too, and the consensus was that there should be a dummy set of controls and thermostat for the lady of the house to fiddle with to her heart's content, while you have it under your control via a smartphone app.
HTP99 said:
My god we are in Thailand at the moment, firstly we get to the hotel room and she whacks the A/C to the lowest possible temp:
Me: "why are you putting the A/C so low, it'll be bloody freezing?"
Her: "it's hot in here and I want it to cool down quickly"
Me: "as per the conversation we have at home, seemingly on a daily basis regarding the thermostat, it is the same principle; set the temperature to what you want it to be and the A/C unit will cool the room to that temperature as quickly as it can"
FFS what is it about thermostats that women can't seem to grasp.
Daughter is back home she txt me at midnight (home time), it's freezing the heating isn't on, I've turned it up and nothings happening, cue lots of s
t "advice" back to her from the wife about calling a plumber or resetting the boiler (haven't a clue how and neither has she!), etc.
Meanwhile I txt back stating that the heating goes off at 22:00; as its always done, hit "+1" on the timer and it will kick in for an hour. Nope. Doesn't work apparently, but there is hot water, so the boiler is working!
FFS I just know there will be nothing wrong, it's just a woman and heating don't mix thing, what is it that they just don't get and I just know that the heating will be set to 25, for the next 10 days, it'll be subtropical in our house!
The Ex-MiL used to do this with the car. Offer to drop me home, got in the car and put it all on MAX, middle of winter and the car would be cold, so it just thrusted cold air toward our faces until I got home, when it was just about getting warm.Me: "why are you putting the A/C so low, it'll be bloody freezing?"
Her: "it's hot in here and I want it to cool down quickly"
Me: "as per the conversation we have at home, seemingly on a daily basis regarding the thermostat, it is the same principle; set the temperature to what you want it to be and the A/C unit will cool the room to that temperature as quickly as it can"
FFS what is it about thermostats that women can't seem to grasp.
Daughter is back home she txt me at midnight (home time), it's freezing the heating isn't on, I've turned it up and nothings happening, cue lots of s
t "advice" back to her from the wife about calling a plumber or resetting the boiler (haven't a clue how and neither has she!), etc.Meanwhile I txt back stating that the heating goes off at 22:00; as its always done, hit "+1" on the timer and it will kick in for an hour. Nope. Doesn't work apparently, but there is hot water, so the boiler is working!
FFS I just know there will be nothing wrong, it's just a woman and heating don't mix thing, what is it that they just don't get and I just know that the heating will be set to 25, for the next 10 days, it'll be subtropical in our house!
The other day we were discussing holidays and the missus said she'd like to go to the Virgin islands, and commented how Richard Branson has named them after his company
AppleJuice said:
Not bloody thermostats again! 
Should 'how thermostats work' be on the national curriculum?
Funny you should say that.Should 'how thermostats work' be on the national curriculum?
https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-techno...
singlecoil said:
Nothing that was actually said, but her performance in reversing her car out of the perfectly satisfactory parking place in which I had left it. I had to stop her from trying to swing the front of the car round and into the adjacent pillar, I pointed out that all she needed to do was to straighten up and reverse back. Then I had to tell her which way to turn the wheel to achieve that.
So at last the car is clear of the pillar but instead of reversing back much further into the large empty space behind her, she starts a session of unnecessary wheel twirling in order to be able line to the car up to drive out of the car park.
It's not so much the crap driving that irritates me, it's the absolute point blank refusal to learn what she's doing wrong
I hate to use it but, "because woman" So at last the car is clear of the pillar but instead of reversing back much further into the large empty space behind her, she starts a session of unnecessary wheel twirling in order to be able line to the car up to drive out of the car park.
It's not so much the crap driving that irritates me, it's the absolute point blank refusal to learn what she's doing wrong
Mine's the same, generally she's a good driver and can park ok, but parallel parking, forget it!!!! That and slamming the f
king doors/boot, no matter how many times I sarcastically ask "are you absolutely sure that's shut???"
Bobberoo99 said:
I hate to use it but, "because woman"
Mine's the same, generally she's a good driver and can park ok, but parallel parking, forget it!!!! That and slamming the fking doors/boot, no matter how many times I sarcastically ask "are you absolutely sure that's shut???"
I get the opposite, she tries to close it so gently, that it only ever half clicks closed, so she will open, and close it gently again, half closed, and then slam it 3rd time and it works Mine's the same, generally she's a good driver and can park ok, but parallel parking, forget it!!!! That and slamming the f
king doors/boot, no matter how many times I sarcastically ask "are you absolutely sure that's shut???"illmonkey said:
The Ex-MiL used to do this with the car. Offer to drop me home, got in the car and put it all on MAX, middle of winter and the car would be cold, so it just thrusted cold air toward our faces until I got home, when it was just about getting warm.
The wife does similar; middle of winter, she gets in the car which has been sat all day "it's bloody freezing in here, put the heating on", before I've even turned the bloody car on, I've lost count of the amount of times I've told her that the heat from the heater comes from the heat of the engine so you have to wait for if to warm up first. Similar with a car in the summer, she gets in" it's bloody boiling in here", down goes the window as I fire the car up and put the A/C on, I tell her to put the window back up as it'll screw with the A/C, give it a few seconds and the car will by like a fridge, nope she leaves the window down!
HTP99 said:
Similar with a car in the summer, she gets in" it's bloody boiling in here", down goes the window as I fire the car up and put the A/C on, I tell her to put the window back up as it'll screw with the A/C, give it a few seconds and the car will by like a fridge, nope she leaves the window down!
MIL or not, I’d give her two options, close the window, or be dropped at the next bus stop, and my MIL knew me well enough to know that I’d do it.
MJ85 said:
Mrs MJ85 - "My aircon isn't working properly! It isn't cold like it used to be".
I have never, in all my life, known a woman to adjust the temperature to a "middle" sort of setting. It's always full cold, or full hot, normally bouncing in between when the car inevitably gets too hot or cold, so setting in motion a journey that involves adjusting the heating every mile.She's quite clearly given a lift to a bloke who got fed up and set that.
Blue Oval84 said:
MJ85 said:
Mrs MJ85 - "My aircon isn't working properly! It isn't cold like it used to be".
I have never, in all my life, known a woman to adjust the temperature to a "middle" sort of setting. It's always full cold, or full hot, normally bouncing in between when the car inevitably gets too hot or cold, so setting in motion a journey that involves adjusting the heating every mile.She's quite clearly given a lift to a bloke who got fed up and set that.
HTP99 said:
The wife does similar; middle of winter, she gets in the car which has been sat all day "it's bloody freezing in here, put the heating on", before I've even turned the bloody car on, I've lost count of the amount of times I've told her that the heat from the heater comes from the heat of the engine so you have to wait for if to warm up first.
Similar with a car in the summer, she gets in" it's bloody boiling in here", down goes the window as I fire the car up and put the A/C on, I tell her to put the window back up as it'll screw with the A/C, give it a few seconds and the car will by like a fridge, nope she leaves the window down!
House Rule.Similar with a car in the summer, she gets in" it's bloody boiling in here", down goes the window as I fire the car up and put the A/C on, I tell her to put the window back up as it'll screw with the A/C, give it a few seconds and the car will by like a fridge, nope she leaves the window down!
The driver of the car is the only person authorised to manipulate the controls (heating, cooling, radio, wipers etc.)
If the passenger is not happy with the settings of the controls they are free to travel in another vehicle.
The Mad Monk said:
House Rule.
The driver of the car is the only person authorised to manipulate the controls (heating, cooling, radio, wipers etc.)
If the passenger is not happy with the settings of the controls they are free to travel in another vehicle.
And for the times I am a passenger,, the heating is set to hot before the car has warmed up, the radio is beaten into submission by jabbing random buttons randomly, the wipers are left going until the radio dares to make a noise and there is an announcement there is a hose pipe ban in place. Fortunately I drive most of the time.. The driver of the car is the only person authorised to manipulate the controls (heating, cooling, radio, wipers etc.)
If the passenger is not happy with the settings of the controls they are free to travel in another vehicle.
It can get worse fellers.
My mother when in her 90s was living moderately independently in a separate granny flat adjacent to my house. Some mornings she would get up early, & find the sitting room a bit cold. To counter this she would turn on an electric fan heater.
A little later she would find it getting a bit warm, so would turn on the air conditioning. I would often go to check her in the morning to find both the heater & the air conditioning running happily together.
She loved that air conditioning, but we could never get her to use the reverse cycle heating of the thing. She said it was too noisy.
My mother when in her 90s was living moderately independently in a separate granny flat adjacent to my house. Some mornings she would get up early, & find the sitting room a bit cold. To counter this she would turn on an electric fan heater.
A little later she would find it getting a bit warm, so would turn on the air conditioning. I would often go to check her in the morning to find both the heater & the air conditioning running happily together.
She loved that air conditioning, but we could never get her to use the reverse cycle heating of the thing. She said it was too noisy.
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