The first time I met my wife, she changed what she was wearing like three times.
Well, that’s not entirely accurate.
We were set up on a picnic date with friends and I recall that she shed or added different shirts and even through on another pair of sweats at the end. I thought she was an amazing person from the very first five minutes I was around her. The fact that we were out of the air conditioning and she was so sensitive to temperature change didn’t mean much. The next few times we were together were inside the quality heating and air of those same friend’s home. I honestly thought all this layering was sort of an interesting quirk. But I didn’t even know the half of it really. Over the years, I’ve watched this woman have to prepare for every eventuality when it comes to the slightest change in temperature. It doesn’t matter if she’s going to be inside or outside. So after nearly a decade of watching her peel and add layers of clothing to offset too much air conditioning or not enough HVAC heating, I did something. I called the HVAC professionals to see about adding zone controlled HVAC to our home. I was sure that this could be done to existing HVAC equipment but I was pleasantly surprised that it could. So now, there are six different HVAC zones in the house. And all of them have their own independent thermostat. My wife can now adjust all those thermostats so she can just wear one set of clothes at least while she’s inside our home.