Why Is It So Cold In This Waaaambulance?

I woke up to a ridiculous "report" on the Today Show this morning, and while it is not at all important next to my usual topics on the environment or torture or civil liberties or whatever, I gotta vent.

The segment was on air conditioning in the office. So they went around to every whiny woman (sorry, they did) they could find who wants to complain about it being "sooo frigid" in their offices and they just freeze all day waaa waaa waaa. Listen, I've been in those offices, I've heard those people, and they've done it when I was too warm. If those people had their way it would be 90. Of course they didn't interview anyone with blood circulation to give the other side of it, because even on trivial matters it is too much to ask for the media to be evenhanded, so it ended up being the women on the Today Show pushing their anti-A/C agenda without any mention of the fact there are clearly two sides of the issue. Yes, there is no temperature at which everyone will be comfortable, that's just how it is. But there is a good reason offices are too cold instead of too hot, because you can always put on more clothes, you can't take them off. If you go into an office and it is too hot, you are screwed, and you have to suffer, especially if it is 90-100 degrees outside. If you go into an office and it is too cold, you put on a sweater and you are just fine, and your own temperature issues don't make everyone else miserable.

So to those Today Show who seemed to be grasping for the answer to why offices are too cold, it is simply, obviously because a person can do many things about it being too cold, but they can't do anything about it being too hot.

So quit bitching and put some liquor in your desk. If you weren't born with blood circulation, improvise. I suggest vodka.