I just never enjoy staying at my in-laws’ house. I have a myriad of reasons for this. Despite the fact that I tried my best to get along with my partner’s family when I met them, both her siblings and her parents never reciprocated with equal respect. Anyways, I never gave up being civil and polite to them whenever the people I was with and I all have to interact. But, when you’re staying in their beach home for a weekend or longer, the main differences can blossom from slight annoyances into full on seething rage. I will end up sleeping horribly and no doubt each time I am in a terrible mood for a month or longer by the time the people I was with and I get back from the trip. For a few days now, there has been a different reason for why I do not like staying at my in-laws’ house. My lovely partner’s parents have the same central Heating and A/C plan they installed in 1986. Either by pure luck or because they chose the right brand, the air conditioning system and oil furnace have both survived relatively unscathed in the years since. On the other side of the coin, it’s not difficult to understand why someone wouldn’t replace it. With that being said, in reality, the air handler is so loud you can hear it from every room in the home whenever the plan is cycling. This adds to my existing sleeping concerns when my partner and I stay at her parents’ locale. Other than the noise it creates, it doesn’t seem to cool the air as well as our air conditioning system in our beach home does, nor is it as fantastic at drying the air out either. Staying at their home always makes me love my own air conditioning system for so many of the ways in which I properly take it for granted. I guess some air conditioning systems are just louder than others.