So last week our heater broke and we had our roommate's dad look at it because we thought the pilot light was just out. Well he looked at it and it was lighting but the gas wasn't staying on (his words, I'm not sure exactly how heaters work so I won't pretend I know what I'm talking about.) And so it was only blowing cold air. Now common sense, or life experience, or whatever you want to call it tells us that when you're moving cool air around it's going to get cooler. Take fans for example during the summer we turn them on to get the air moving so that we can cool off because when the air is still it gets warmer. Well we took that knowledge when our heater broke and put it to good use. The first thing we did was turn the heater off. If it's not on it wont blow cold air and it wont get colder. That's logic. We told our two roommates that weren't there when we found out the heater was broke so they would't turn the heat up. Did they listen? NO.
They have a problem with being cold and for some reason "cold" is any temperature under 85F. All winter long it has been a constant battle over the thermostat because the rest of us don't believe the temperature needs to go above 70F. Plus when our gas bill doubles in one month it's kinda annoying. We're poor college students we can't afford to pay two hundred a month on gas because two of our roommates don't wear enough clothes and have to turn the heat up to the surface of the sun. I mean honestly there are things called blankets that normal people use to keep warm. Also there's this novel idea called "wearing clothes that cover more than 20% of your body" you know pants (not leggings), shirts with sleeves, maybe a jacket, it is winter after all.
It got so bad some nights that my room roommate and I were sleeping in shorts and tank tops with the window open in the middle of February in Utah. The outside temperature was somewhere in the negatives and we had the window open because it was that freakin hot. We had a joke about it "We just have to survive a few more months and then we'll be rid of them. . . If they don't cook us first." Even guests that came over commented on how unbearably hot it was in our apartment.
So yeah the heater's broken and our landlord is getting a guy to come look at it so we've been just kinda toughing it out for a few days. Wearing sweaters and stuff, what else can you do? Well our roommates are either really stupid and think that even if the heater is broken we can still turn it up to 80F and it will make it warmer. WRONG!!! IT'S JUST MAKING IT COLDER! Or they think we're lying to them for some stupid reason. Yeah because we like freezing our butts off just to make you uncomfortable. I mean really people we would not make ourselves uncomfortable for this long just to be mean to someone else. First of all we're not that vindictive, and secondly we're not idiots. We may not like them but come on. The farthest we've went was not letting them in when they lock themselves out after a night of partying. They need to learn to take their freaking house keys and not knock on the door and ring the door bell at one in the morning. It's disrespectful to us and our neighbors who have two young children. If they would ring the door bell once or twice when they get locked out we would gladly let them in but the annoying constant ring ring ring ring ring knock knock knock knock knock that they do doesn't make us want to help them out. It just pisses us off. Especially when they do it twenty minutes before our one roommate gets home from work (we almost never hear her come in because she's considerate of the other people living in the immediate area) and if they'd wait just a little while she would let them in. They know her schedule she works the same hours at least four or five days a week sometimes more and her work schedule is printed out and stuck to our door.
