# It is 88 degrees in my apartment **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 6, 2020, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-88-degrees-in-my-apartment/855179 "2020-06-06T23:47:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-88-degrees-in-my-apartment/855179/21 "2020-06-08T03:55:31Z")
Aha. An AC with an apartment built around it. Here, it’s been over 90 for the past thousand days in a row, no AC, and it’s airy and comfortable with fans. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-88-degrees-in-my-apartment/855179/22 "2020-06-08T05:31:09Z")
It snowed here today. I shit you negative. I had to run the heat in the Jeep when I took the dogs out. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-88-degrees-in-my-apartment/855179/23 "2020-06-08T06:44:31Z")
> [@Gray\_Ghost](#): > > I sympathize. Our went out earlier this week, and it was an unpleasant two days before a second contractor was able to replace a busted capacitor. I have no idea how the South was settled before air conditioning. They built their houses in [ways](https://www.curbed.com/2017/7/20/16003184/old-houses-air-conditioning-summer) that helped them stay (relatively) cool without it. Or just ignored it. > [@](#): > > Meanwhile, in the upper classes, it was fashionable to completely ignore the heat. “The idea was that you were immune to temperatures,” says Basile. “You simply did not acknowledge that it was hot.” I wonder how many people that killed; heat stroke isn’t something that pride can negate, after all. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-88-degrees-in-my-apartment/855179/24 "2020-06-08T14:46:07Z")
Our entire dorm was built without AC in the 1980s…in Oklahoma. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-88-degrees-in-my-apartment/855179/25 "2020-06-09T05:38:33Z")
I just recently ditched an apartment without air conditioning for one that has it. I am so pleased. Saturday was the day that really drove the point home for me. I reveled in being able to walk around in the boiling heat knowing the pure joy that lay in store back at the ol’ homestead. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-88-degrees-in-my-apartment/855179/26 "2020-06-09T11:53:32Z")
I had no AC until age 11 but that was in NJ . Since then I have AC here in NC . ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-88-degrees-in-my-apartment/855179/27 "2020-06-09T17:58:08Z")
**Little Nemo** , have you tried calling the maker of the a/c unit about buying a new hose that will fit the unit as it is supposed to? I’m on my 6th summer of an a/c unit like the one you describe–floor standing, vent out the window–and I haven’t had any hose problems. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-88-degrees-in-my-apartment/855179/28 "2020-06-09T19:06:05Z")
Hell I had one of those units with corrugated tubes that lasted a good 15 years ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-88-degrees-in-my-apartment/855179/29 "2020-06-09T20:40:44Z")
I can handle 88 degrees in my room. But, I sleep in a cotton hammock, and after 16 years of living in the tropics, I have adjusted. When it reaches 90F, I turn on the a/c and the low energy setting. I hope you have a solution by now. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-88-degrees-in-my-apartment/855179/30 "2020-06-09T20:58:14Z")
What is this 88F of which you speak? Does it mean you get twice the summer that we do? ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-88-degrees-in-my-apartment/855179/31 "2020-06-09T21:20:34Z")
Wimps! I grew up in Philly awnd we certainly didn’t have air conditioning. Sometimes, the temperature would be in the high 90s, even 100 with overnight lows in the mid 80s for 2-3 weeks. We survived. Here in Montreal, we live without AC for 50 years, although it was rather more moderate than Philly. Last summer, we moved to a condo that has air, but I use it as little as possible. Might not use it at all if there was a way of getting a cross-breeze. ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-88-degrees-in-my-apartment/855179/32 "2020-06-09T22:46:42Z")
> [@casdave](#): > > What is this 88F of which you speak? > > Does it mean you get twice the summer that we do? Don’t know. How many summers do you have? It is summer for 11.5 months a year here. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-88-degrees-in-my-apartment/855179/33 "2020-06-10T09:08:46Z")
We get a 44F summer for a few days each year - hence the reference ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-88-degrees-in-my-apartment/855179/34 "2020-06-10T12:03:28Z")
Never seen it below 60F here. The two weeks of winter is horrible. We have not way to heat a room. And very few clothes for the cold. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-88-degrees-in-my-apartment/855179.md?page=1)