Classic from the Mrs! Vol 2
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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.
Women really don't seem to understand the concept of heating. I'll have the heating on and the log burner going trying to get the house warmed up.
Next thing I find she has thrown the dog out the back door, but left the door wide open, and is currently standing with the front door wide open calling the cats in - all the while there is an arctic blast blowing right through the house.
She'll then walk in, sit down on the sofa and go "brrrr - it's cold in this house"..........no f
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Next thing I find she has thrown the dog out the back door, but left the door wide open, and is currently standing with the front door wide open calling the cats in - all the while there is an arctic blast blowing right through the house.
She'll then walk in, sit down on the sofa and go "brrrr - it's cold in this house"..........no f
king st!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!
To be fair, that's what I do in my car. When a car with a dark interior has been parked in the sun on a 40+ day, the air in the car is well above ambient temperature.Windows down for a minute or two to exhaust the hot air, while the a/c cools the red-hot dash vents. Then close the windows.
AW111 said:
To be fair, that's what I do in my car. When a car with a dark interior has been parked in the sun on a 40+ day, the air in the car is well above ambient temperature.
Windows down for a minute or two to exhaust the hot air, while the a/c cools the red-hot dash vents. Then close the windows.
Me too. It takes a couple of minutes for the compressor to cool the matrix. In the meantime I want to vent as much of the super-heated interior air to the outside as I can. Once the air starts coming through cold, then close the windows to trap its chilly goodness.Windows down for a minute or two to exhaust the hot air, while the a/c cools the red-hot dash vents. Then close the windows.
AW111 said:
To be fair, that's what I do in my car. When a car with a dark interior has been parked in the sun on a 40+ day, the air in the car is well above ambient temperature.
Windows down for a minute or two to exhaust the hot air, while the a/c cools the red-hot dash vents. Then close the windows.
Surely with all that hot air in the car you want to keep it in so that it lifts the car a little providing less friction and better fuel economy :-)Windows down for a minute or two to exhaust the hot air, while the a/c cools the red-hot dash vents. Then close the windows.
I completely get the "women in the house can't use a thermostat" thing.
But I've had cars in the past - FN2 comes to mind - which would heat until 0.5 degrees past the climate control setting, then panic and fire ice-cold air at you until the cabin temperature decreased. So you'd have to keep notching up the desired temperature until you were essentially a boil-in-the-bag meal or risk the blast chiller. So I do have some sympathy.
But I've had cars in the past - FN2 comes to mind - which would heat until 0.5 degrees past the climate control setting, then panic and fire ice-cold air at you until the cabin temperature decreased. So you'd have to keep notching up the desired temperature until you were essentially a boil-in-the-bag meal or risk the blast chiller. So I do have some sympathy.
Usget said:
I completely get the "women in the house can't use a thermostat" thing.
But I've had cars in the past - FN2 comes to mind - which would heat until 0.5 degrees past the climate control setting, then panic and fire ice-cold air at you until the cabin temperature decreased. So you'd have to keep notching up the desired temperature until you were essentially a boil-in-the-bag meal or risk the blast chiller. So I do have some sympathy.
i have to say, i've owned my first BMW (2014 F30) for a few months and the climate does my fBut I've had cars in the past - FN2 comes to mind - which would heat until 0.5 degrees past the climate control setting, then panic and fire ice-cold air at you until the cabin temperature decreased. So you'd have to keep notching up the desired temperature until you were essentially a boil-in-the-bag meal or risk the blast chiller. So I do have some sympathy.
king head in. It is completely ste (as is much of the other ergonomic features). The numbers on the temperature setting, and the numbers on the ambient temperature reading between them seem to have almost no effect on the temp of the air coming out the vents. Forget just setting a temp and more or less leaving it alone, no, it requires almost constant fking around with. Half a degree seems to be the difference between blowing heat and blowing cold... there is no 'i just won't blow anything at all for a bit' state.
Sure I've posted this before but 'twas a ho day back in July & we are doing 1st decent length journey in the Panamera. Wife spend so much time fiddling with the a/c controls it's untrue. She has no clue what any of the controls do & will not listen, so just keeps fiddling. After about an hour the car is getting hotter & hotter & I realize the a/c doesn't appear to be working & I can't get it to cool at all. Anyhow we needed to stop by now,. So she went off & I tried to work out what had happened. Eventually gave up. When she came back switched on again & perfect it started working. The only conclusion I could come to was she had pressed so many buttons & fiddled so much she had just confused the poor system & it had given up. So I told her that. Drove the rest of the way in silence.
It's a bit like those people who agonise over which car to buy (my brother's a good example, he can take months) because they're worried about rear legroom, or whether the transmission tunnel intrudes into the space etc.
I say, who cares about the people in the back? They're not paying for it are they?
I say, who cares about the people in the back? They're not paying for it are they?
GT03ROB said:
Sure I've posted this before but 'twas a ho day back in July & we are doing 1st decent length journey in the Panamera. Wife spend so much time fiddling with the a/c controls it's untrue. She has no clue what any of the controls do & will not listen, so just keeps fiddling. After about an hour the car is getting hotter & hotter & I realize the a/c doesn't appear to be working & I can't get it to cool at all. Anyhow we needed to stop by now,. So she went off & I tried to work out what had happened. Eventually gave up. When she came back switched on again & perfect it started workingThe only conclusion I could come to was she had pressed so many buttons & fiddled so much she had just confused the poor system & it had given up. So I told her that. Drove the rest of the way in silence.
Is this a metaphor for life and marriage? Tabs said:
Lived in the same house for 43 years. My parking space has 4 little indentations in the tarmac from the tyres. Wife arrives in her car, abandons it and walks into the house. Never seen it parked in the same place twice.....
Watched her (while standing out of her sight) scrape the car into the garage last night, yet again, same panel, same thing she has hit in the garage before. Questioned her. "Its not my fault I cannot park perfectly every time" - and she wants to get a bigger car. Help us all.
Peanut Gallery said:
Tabs said:
Lived in the same house for 43 years. My parking space has 4 little indentations in the tarmac from the tyres. Wife arrives in her car, abandons it and walks into the house. Never seen it parked in the same place twice.....
Watched her (while standing out of her sight) scrape the car into the garage last night, yet again, same panel, same thing she has hit in the garage before. Questioned her. "Its not my fault I cannot park perfectly every time" - and she wants to get a bigger car. Help us all.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff