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To: txrefugee
Something that has always cracked me up while working in the North Dakota Oil Patch. In the command center, the Texans would have the AC going until it was 60 inside in the summertime--any warmer, and they'd complain about the heat.

In the winter (temps zero and below outside) they'd have the heat set on 80--anything less was too cold.

29 posted on 08/20/2015 5:27:42 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

I worked with a mixed race crew, about half Caucasian and half “African American”. We only had one little room where you could get some relief from the heat or the cold. It was of little use to me because the blacks kept setting the thermostat on 80 or even higher summer or winter. Black people in South Carolina seem to consider 80 the ideal temperature, many have actually told me they like an 80 degree day much better than a beautiful, sunny 65 degree spring day. Go in their home in the winter and if you are anything like me you cannot take it, 80 degrees with everything shut up tight and no air movement. It is bad enough in the summer but 80 inside in the winter feels to me like 100 does outside in the summer, sometimes even worse. I can’t breathe in a place like that. I am quite comfortable right now, the air conditioner is on and the temp inside is 77 with a humidity reading of 39. As long as I am not doing anything other than typing on a keyboard that is just fine but if you’re talking about inside temps 72 is way too cold for me in my home in the summer but plenty warm, maybe too warm in the winter.


50 posted on 08/20/2015 6:02:09 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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