Apparently turning it up a couple degrees so I’m not sitting inside in a hoodie is some kind of crime, even though he’s walking around in gym shorts like it’s summer.I came home to a dramatic note taped to the thermostat from my stepdad telling me not to touch it because it’s “his house.” Apparently turning it up a couple degrees so I’m not sitting inside in a hoodie is some kind of crime, even though he’s walking around in gym shorts like it’s summer.
So yeah, I turned it up again. If I’m going to get treated like a freeloading kid, I might as well lean into it. He starts stomping around, going on about the electric bill and “respect,” and every time he walked off, I adjusted it back. I’m not about to be uncomfortable in a house I live in too.
Now he’s threatening to put one of those lock boxes over the thermostat, and my mom keeps telling me to “just drop it,” like I’m the unreasonable one for not wanting to freeze.
If it ends up locked, I might just start cracking windows in the winter and call it even.
I came home to a dramatic note taped to the thermostat from my stepdad telling me not to touch it because it’s “his house.”
