Pregnant, AC broke, DH out of town..what to do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If there is a pool with hotel, make it a fun overnight getaway and hang at the pool tonight and order room service or pizza. If no good hotel close by, head to moms house.

Things like this always turn into fun adventures.

+1

Even if your AC wasn't broken, this would be a fun adventure with DD!

My mom used to take me and my best friend to a hotel when my brother had his sleep over birthday party each year. I always felt like a princess!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks everyone.

The basement is being remodeled and we cnanot sleep there.

Maybe I am high maintenance, I don't know. I have a demanding job and I'm trying to work while dealing with my DD's drop off and pickup and just the general difficulties of a spouse out of town, I had my glucose test this morning and am feeling like shit because of that, I'm just not in a great mood right now. I have been sitting in a hot house waiting for our first service person who no showed. I finally have someone scheduled for 9 am tomorrow. And there is no way on god's green earth that I am going to run out and purchase an effing air conditioner. My mom cannot help with drop off, she works.

Wow. The air conditioner was a very reasonable suggestion and I was trying to be helpful, having been in your situation (pregnant, small child, no husband, derecho, miserable). But now I agree: you sound really high maintenance, and frankly a little bitchy. Eat some protein before you interact with your child, for her sake. Then go check into the Ritz and be done with it.

Actually, telling a pregnant woman with a 4 year old in tow to go out and buy and then install an an air conditioner ( that probably weighs 50 lbs) is pretty stupid advice. That would probably take an hour. In 30 minutes, she could be at her Mom's house. Eat some protein before you give moronic advice.

Huge difference between a window unit fan & a window air conditioner. Look it up.

[Anonymous]

Shouldn't this be cross posted under first world problems?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks everyone.

The basement is being remodeled and we cnanot sleep there.

Maybe I am high maintenance, I don't know. I have a demanding job and I'm trying to work while dealing with my DD's drop off and pickup and just the general difficulties of a spouse out of town, I had my glucose test this morning and am feeling like shit because of that, I'm just not in a great mood right now. I have been sitting in a hot house waiting for our first service person who no showed. I finally have someone scheduled for 9 am tomorrow. And there is no way on god's green earth that I am going to run out and purchase an effing air conditioner. My mom cannot help with drop off, she works.

Wow. The air conditioner was a very reasonable suggestion and I was trying to be helpful, having been in your situation (pregnant, small child, no husband, derecho, miserable). But now I agree: you sound really high maintenance, and frankly a little bitchy. Eat some protein before you interact with your child, for her sake. Then go check into the Ritz and be done with it.

Actually, telling a pregnant woman with a 4 year old in tow to go out and buy and then install an an air conditioner ( that probably weighs 50 lbs) is pretty stupid advice. That would probably take an hour. In 30 minutes, she could be at her Mom's house. Eat some protein before you give moronic advice.

Huge difference between a window unit fan & a window air conditioner. Look it up.

Costco and many places sell small portable air conditioners. OP has received reasonable suggestions, but does seem like a whiny princess.

[Anonymous]

In the time you spent complaining about the suggestions you received, you could have put any of them into play.

[Anonymous]

You can get light, easily installed window unit ACs. We did this when our AC went out. It may seem like a ridiculous expense, but for us it was cheaper/more convenient than a hotel, and we've loaned it out to friends who also had the unfortunate experience of their AC going out. If I calculated the costs of the appreciative dinners out we've been treated to in return, I'm pretty sure we'd come out ahead on the cost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can get light, easily installed window unit ACs. We did this when our AC went out. It may seem like a ridiculous expense, but for us it was cheaper/more convenient than a hotel, and we've loaned it out to friends who also had the unfortunate experience of their AC going out. If I calculated the costs of the appreciative dinners out we've been treated to in return, I'm pretty sure we'd come out ahead on the cost.

Right, but OP is preggggggnant, and her husband is traaaaaaveling, and she has to wooooork, and she has a preschooooooler, and she had to take a gluuuuuucose test yesterday morning.

It is unreasonable to ask her to act like an adult and address the problem, as evidenced by the fact that she didn't even end up taking the hotel or going to her mom's option.

[Anonymous]

When someone's trying to help you, whether you like the suggestion or not, you don't respond with "And there is no way... that I am going to run out and purchase an effing air conditioner.".

It says a lot about OP as a person.

[Anonymous]

I can't believe this thread is 5 pages.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can get light, easily installed window unit ACs. We did this when our AC went out. It may seem like a ridiculous expense, but for us it was cheaper/more convenient than a hotel, and we've loaned it out to friends who also had the unfortunate experience of their AC going out. If I calculated the costs of the appreciative dinners out we've been treated to in return, I'm pretty sure we'd come out ahead on the cost.

Right, but OP is preggggggnant, and her husband is traaaaaaveling, and she has to wooooork, and she has a preschooooooler, and she had to take a gluuuuuucose test yesterday morning.

It is unreasonable to ask her to act like an adult and address the problem, as evidenced by the fact that she didn't even end up taking the hotel or going to her mom's option.

Where does OP say what she actually ended up doing?

[Anonymous]

Huh? Telling OP to go out an buy an air conditioning unit? Even the small ones are heavy.

Definitely go to a hotel if you're uncomfortable!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can get light, easily installed window unit ACs. We did this when our AC went out. It may seem like a ridiculous expense, but for us it was cheaper/more convenient than a hotel, and we've loaned it out to friends who also had the unfortunate experience of their AC going out. If I calculated the costs of the appreciative dinners out we've been treated to in return, I'm pretty sure we'd come out ahead on the cost.

Right, but OP is preggggggnant, and her husband is traaaaaaveling, and she has to wooooork, and she has a preschooooooler, and she had to take a gluuuuuucose test yesterday morning.

It is unreasonable to ask her to act like an adult and address the problem, as evidenced by the fact that she didn't even end up taking the hotel or going to her mom's option.

Where does OP say what she actually ended up doing?

22:37.

[Anonymous]

What do you do when you have a real problem? Age-wise, you are a grown woman, too bad your mental age is still a toddler.

[Anonymous]

how helpless are you, OP? What a princess!

[Anonymous]

I laugh at this when I think about women all over the world with real problems. Woman up, OP. You can handle this with a better attitude and perspective. It's not like you're walking miles carrying containers of water and kindling in this heat, fearing for your and your child's lives.