My mother-in-law pointed at the door during New Year’s dinner and snapped, **“If you don’t like my rules, get out!”** – Welcome

and she had tested her headset fifteen minutes earlier.

Then she checked the thermostat app on her phone.

The upstairs zone had been manually disabled.

Again.

Claire walked into the hallway and found her mother-in-law, Linda, standing beside the wall thermostat looking perfectly satisfied.

“Did you shut off the upstairs cooling?”

Linda crossed her arms.continue reading …