The thermostat was off limits growing up. I never even used a thermostat until college. If someone fricked with our thermostat my dad knew literally within seconds. He could just sense that the air was clicking on out of balance with what he set. To be fair our house felt like it was the perfect temperature every day basically my whole life so apparently he’s cracked the secret of the perfect year round temperature no matter how cold or hot it is

Well fast forward a decade or so and he is still like this. And now as someone with my own place I find myself knowing immediately if someone has fricked with my own thermostat and also being pretty protective of it.

That commercial that shows the husband/dad pop out of nowhere and asking “what are you touching the thermostat for?” When his wife is adjusting it cracks me up because I find it so accurate.

Am I a weirdo or are most dads like this?

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Weirdo

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Well it had to happen sometime

I break out my Catholic school ruler if someone touch my thermostat

I have a smart thermostat so I can use the app and I don't have to get up when my wife tries to sneak by me that she has raised it to like 82 or something. I like my house feeling like a meat storage and she likes it feeling like August in Louisiana.

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How protective are your (or you) dads of the thermostat

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Am I the only one who had to read this a handful of times?

My mom had ours on 60 year round. Bless her sweet heart. I miss having a Mom.

I was hot in the summer and cold in the winter growing up. My dad was always checking it and turning off the lights. I remember mom watching him leave for work and then rushing over to get the temp right.

It’s on a schedule so no one touches it.



Or no one should touch it.

I go put mine on 68 every night because I like to sleep cold, my son (13) has figured out that after I go to bed he can bump it up..

We battle daily over this

you dad sounds like a controlling a-hole.