When you are the dad of 3 beautiful daughters, you tend to be pretty good at being both the good cop and the bad cop.
- It’s just a truth that my wife pretty much runs the show inside the central air conditioning of the house.
And she can be pretty exacting when holding the girls accountable. She doesn’t put up with excuses for any deviation from the rules. So I have to sometimes play the good cop and sit down in the air conditioning to talk to one of the girls after she gets blasted by mom. But when it comes to them dating, I’m the best bad cop you’ve ever seen. I can remember walking into the central air conditioning of my first girlfriend’s house for the first time. I had my license and had borrowed dad’s car for this date. That’s where I got my first lesson in being the bad cop. My girlfriend’s dad took me into his den and made it extremely clear just how precious his daughter was. And that I was on the hook for her safety any time she left the air conditioning of that house. It’s basically the same bad cop move that I use now that I’m the one scared to death to let my little girls get into a car with someone. But when it comes to policing the heating and cooling, that’s not up to me anymore. Thanks to the HVAC technology in the smart thermostat, I just leave all that alone these days. The smart thermostat now knows our patterns and adjusts accordingly. So I’ll save big once again on air conditioning this year without having to be the good cop or the bad cop.