Living with roommates is an extremely difficult task for me.
I’m not an extrovert, and I have some privacy issues that make it difficult for me to cohabitate with anybody.
When you throw in the varying personalities of emotional adults, you wind up with a challenging household. I’ve been dealing with my irresponsible and financially ignorant roommates for several years now, however we were finally beginning to make strides in our energy conservation and utility bill management. That is, until they started bringing new girlfriends over. Apparently, my roommates have taste for extremely high maintenance and picky ladies. Whenever these girls come over to the house, I immediately start complaining about the indoor air temperature. They’re usually not wearing much clothing, so they must be colder than your average bear. They complain endlessly until my roommates will give in and change the HVAC settings. If they make no progress guilting my roommates into altering the temperature control program, they will start messing with the thermostat themselves. I’ve seen them do it on numerous occasions, and I felt our indoor air quality change rapidly due to their random temperature whims. Throughout all of this HVAC abuse, our Energy bill has been climbing through the roof month after month. I kept pestering my roommates, but they told me they were not in control of the ventilation drama. Finally, I gave up and installed a passcode on the thermostat. Now these random girls can’t change our thermostat settings without asking, and for extra security, my roommate’s don’t even know the passcode themselves.