Finally, one of the reasons Light Bulb Lloyd and his ilk usually get away with nanny laws is because of people like DM, a 29-year-old "mental giant" from Woodland Hills, with a Valley Girl Marie Antoinette complex, who told a man-in-the-street reporter she thought the 'greater good may have lost out in the thermostat flap.'
You ain't heard nuthin' yet from her.
"The weather around here is so nice, who cares about the thermostat?" she added. "Wear a sweater in the winter and go swimming in the summer."
Okay, let's parse that and give it the sanity test.
One, the weather around here isn't nice. Typical of deserts, we go from 30 degree temperatures at night to 60 to 80 degree days in the winter. In the summer it's 60 to 75 degrees at night, and can soar to days on end of triple digits. Our houses never have a chance to cool down.
Two, while a lot of the time throwing on an extra sweat shirt will do, there are many times when it's so bone-chilling cold day after day that there's no choice but to turn up the thermostat.
As far as jumping into a pool when the Valley sizzles, maybe DM has a pool for her convenience, and maybe she has nothing but prune-wrinkle time on her hands where she can loll in her pool for hours on end.
Eventually, even she will have to go back into her steaming hot abode.
That is...unless she's a thermostat turner downer in secret, and her air-conditioning has been running full blast all day.
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