Hans Wrote:
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> Once, in Germany, some Germany Army Engineers
> slept in our barracks
> for a week while they were doing a construction
> project. I came in
> at midnight one night and they were asleep in
> their bunks and had
> turned off the heat and opened the windows. I was
> below zero outside
> with a 20 mph wind. I closed the windows and
> turned the heat back on.
> As soon I went to sleep they got up and turned off
> the heat and opened
> the windows again. I woke up freezing and the
> Germans were sound asleep.
> This game went on until 3 a.m. when I decided to
> go and sleep in the
> operations building storage room. Better them than
> me. If they want to
> freeze, let'em.
My father told me about how at West Point a lot of people would turn off their heaters and open the windows to sleep. It was the plebes' job to come in at 5am and close the windows and turn the heat back on so it would be warm enough to get out of bed in the morning.
When I lived in an all-brick home in Bethesda with oil heat and radiators, I would open a window in my bedroom most winter nights, but I also had a korean roommate who liked to crank the heat, so it was sorta necessary. I can't sleep in a house that is 78 or 80 degrees, but apparently most koreans love really warm houses.