We get in the car.
Husband drives. He turns on the air conditioner. As he should when it’s 90 degrees out. I proceed to roll down my window. Husband reaches down and turns off the air conditioner.
I turn to look at him. For the five hundredth time in the last few summers.
“Husband, there is no law written any where that says you have to keep the windows up in a car when the air conditioner is on. No where. You can have the air conditioner on and have the windows down. I promise.”
He looks at me with those pained eyes that only other husbands understand and said “it’s the law of economics.”
Some laws are meant to be broken.
I reach out to the air conditioner and turn it back on.
Husband follows with the pained sigh that only other husbands understand.
Husband… Us guys HAVE to stick to together and combat the (small amount of) logic these wives have! Let us unite! lol
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Thanks for having my back Koji.
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You’re welcome! But I sure wouldn’t want to be there when she reads this… I’m glad you are. Lol
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Small amount? Small amount? Koji….I knew there was something brewing when Husband was laughing and saying “Koji is so funny!”.
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I am sorry, my Queen. Perhaps I should have used “wee” instead of “small”? It sounds more Irish. Is that to your liking?
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Oh Koji Oh Koji Oh Koji. What am I going to do with you?
(Okay, in all fairness that WAS a darn good one!) 🙂
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Husband is wise… Husband is quiet and so shall I. 🙂
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Hmm…it has been my experience that husbands do not like hearing the word ‘wee’ when referencing them … hahaha…sorry…
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Blahaha!!! Irish Katie makes a quick strike!! Lol
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Irish Katie I have heard this same advice else where! 😉
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So who won? lol
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Who do you think?
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You!
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Right, Husband. Why even ask? Lol
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The battle continues. No clear winner at this time.
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No battle. 😉 Yes winner. 🙂
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High-5 … 🙂
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🙂 High-5’d !!
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Oh Colleen!!! How could you. I am totally with your husband on this. Gosh today’s cars are designed to be driven with the windows up and the AC on. The car actually gets better gas mileage, travelling with the windows up and the AC on, compared to a vehicle driving the same speed with the windows down. But who am I to talk, my wife gets in my car, and immediately turns the radio to a station she likes, and glares at me should I attempt to turn it back. Oh Well! Take care, have a great day. — Bill
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Okay Bill, I understand the whole economy of this. BUT. I work in a building all day long with windows closed. Reprocessed air. Not fresh. Not necessarily cool. When I get in the car I want air. But I don’t want to be stifling hot either. There is a compromise. Air on. Window down. WIfe happy. Wife happy=husband happy. Everyone is happy! 🙂
Not to be taking sides….and please don’t tell your wife. In our car, driver’s choice for radio. I have to give you that one. 🙂
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LMFAO? No truer wrods have been spoken ” wife happy, husband happy” thats why I shutup and listen to that damn station. LOL LOL — Take care, Bill
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HA! You and Husband must have taken lessons at the same HUSBAND SCHOOL. 🙂 Be well Bill!
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Sorry, my friend, I’m with your hubby also on this one. But, by all means, continue to plead your case. My mind has been known to change. And, change. And, change. 😉
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HA! 🙂 Oh boy. I don’t know that I can plead my way of thinking. If I don’t understand it how am I supposed to plead it? I don’t want to be hot. But I don’t want to be locked in something without fresh air. So….AC on. Windows down. Not always mind you. Just sometimes. 😉
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I think you did just plead your case, a good point re: fresh air and not wanting to be locked in. And, wadda ya do if the hubby wants the air on?!? I stand neutral now, lol. Coward friend signing off, lol. 😉
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🙂 The air IS on. I want the air on too! That’s what bothers him. He does NOT believe you can have the AC on AND the windows down. It’s one or the other. I do not agree with that. 🙂 “Coward friend” made me laugh.
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We are having beautiful weather at the moment and my husband travels over an hour to work. He arrived home in a heap he was so warm the last day and I asked him did he put the air conditioning on? No he put the windows down and said that was good enough. In reality he was thinking “economics” believing the car used less gas without it. I told him I would give him the euro the next day! This is a “disagreement” we have regularly.
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Okay, this kind of relates…. when we were in Ireland for one of our trips we were in one car. My brother and his family were following in another car. We were driving through a large city (of course Husband and I disagree which) during some rush hour traffic. We had walkie talkies and we told my brother to turn his lights on so we didn’t lose him. He would not do it. I was yelling at him over the walkie talking “IT DOESN’T COST MORE MONEY TO TURN YOUR HEADLIGHTS ON!!!!”
Men.
I am glad you will give him the euro. He should get to turn his air conditioner on every day for a week with that.
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Oh dear God are you sure it was not my husband in that car? If he does put his lights on by day it is only the parking lights!
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😉 Some have said that my brother is very stubborn. I don’t know WHERE he gets it from.
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I am giggling at this …. I know why they are stubborn…they are IRISH! hahahaha
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Whew!! Irish Katie! Thank you for not mentioning Japanese! Lol
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That is because one can only make fun of their own heritage hehe.
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The Irish are stubborn. Because we are right. 🙂
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🙂
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Time for a convertible. 😉
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You. Are. Brillliant. 🙂
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But you should still turn the air conditioner on *grins*
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EXACTLY! 🙂
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uhm what good does it do to have the ac on, if you are letting in nasty gross humid hot and stinky air? doesn’t that make it even worse on gas?!?!
I require more information,…whyyyyyyyyyyy are we opening the window in the freezer section type car that is perfect again?
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Oddly, the car is no less cooler.
And one thing I forgot to mention….I like my arm to be outside. To wave. To feel the air. To put my hand out so it’s like surfing the air.
🙂 Does that make it any better?
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no, but I did roll my eyes and laugh, so there was benefit in that 😀
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Well then we are at a good place! Laughing and eye rolls make for a decent place to be.
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Just ride the bikes…problem solved!
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Point well taken! 🙂
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We have the same problem and I am with you. I always win in this situation because he says I am so darn cute.
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Awww. 🙂 That is the best kind of husband response! 🙂
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Fresh air is good, lost arm is not good! (｡◕‿◕｡)
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Very good point! I will keep the arm within safety limits. Air on. Windows down.
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😆
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Uhm….once again, I was invading and interrupting lots of conversations…ack!
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Not invading Irish K, “joining”. 😉
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🙂 I like that….joining. Nod nods
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😉
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Actually … I went online just now and did some research. I was reading something from Toyota and it said if you roll the windows down AND turn the air conditioner on, you might use more fuel … but it helps to increase your engine life. And … you have to roll the windows down every once in a while so the electronic switch does not freeze … and it helps if you do it when the air conditioner is on because it shrinks the metal plates holding some parts and allows smoother window operations.
(*smirkles….and wonders if your other half and anyone else reading my pack of lies will at believe even for a second my made up research?*)
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Take it from a former Certified Automotive Technician (me!)… with today’s efficient air conditioning systems, there would be only a “wee” decrease in MPG than from running with the windows open… which does create more drag and turbulence.
In short – run the a/c if you’re a man and bring a sweater if you’re of the female persuasion. 🙂
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Run the AC. I want the AC on. Yes! AND keep the window down because the air feels good! 🙂 Sweater Schmetter. No sweater needed. 😉
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Uhmmm….would it be bad of me to say (as well as environmentally irresponsible) … that sometimes if I am staying at the coast in the winter, I like running the fireplace…and have the sliding door open a bit? Ack!
yes…we are now talking about reverse air conditioning / window rolled down. Wow…this is getting confusing…
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No, it is not bad of you to do or say.
We don’t always want to be “shut in” but weather makes us be creative on dealing with it.
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We should take out the second part of this, I do think some of us would have believed this. Though I know “ONE” man, all right, TWO men who would have researched until they found out the truth!!!
Men.
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Hee….but then someone who works for toyata would read this and ask about it at their workplace and they would visit your blog and then omg….all hell would break loose!
But you might get more visits *smirkles*
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Well, if we get more visitors here AND all hell breaks loose I would say that was a pretty good post! 🙂
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You ladies are killing me…slowly! 🙂
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Pfffft!! Women! Lol… Queens in particular… 🙂
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🙂 You know you wouldn’t have it any other way Koji! 🙂
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Love that pained sigh, Colleen – can SO hear it!! 🙂
I like the windows down!
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🙂 Windows down AND the air on! 🙂 I’m glad others get the ‘pained sigh’.
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I can not take having the windows up when we are in the car on a nice day even when it is 90 degrees out. After these long winters I’ll take the heat…any kind of heat. On our recent trip it was such a problem between my husband and I! He wanted the A/C blasting and I wanted the windows down. We had to compromise and switch between our preferences the whole ride. We were like little kids yelling, “My turn, My turn!”
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Arggghhhh! That’s my point. I think you can have BOTH at the same time. He can keep his window up and the air on, and you can have your window down. There is NO law saying you can’t!!!! Tell him that! 🙂
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Bottom line: Happy Wife = Happy Husband.
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And vice versa. Though we don’t always hear it the other way around as much. 😉
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This is quite a funny debate! I’m somewhere in the middle, I guess. I don’t really want to drive with the windows down, but at the same time, I’m agreeing with you that there is little, if any, real consequence in mileage or anything else! So I hope you can go for it! 🙂
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Fair enough! 🙂 And don’t tell the men folk because they don’t understand this concept. But there really isn’t a right and wrong answer to this. Shhhhh.
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Tyler is the SAME way!
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