Where we live, there are tons of snakes.
I hate snakes! I think they are evil and the bane of my existence.
However, somehow I have ended up living in a part of the country where there are snakes everywhere. Since snakes love hot climates, the place where we live is just perfect for them. We don’t really have to worry much about heating systems around here, but one thing we do have to take particular care with is the conditioning system. We have a high efficiency, state of the art central A/C unit and we use it almost all the time. With the high temperatures in the area where we live, we leave the temperature on our thermostat turned down really low most of the time. We do like to keep the A/C on and we like the indoor temperature in the house around seventy degrees or so. Well, the other day, I saw a documentary on TV about the worst thing in the world: snakes. They were explaining how snakes like to live in hot areas because they are cold blooded. They have to get all of their heating from an outside source since they cannot generate their own heat. Well, when I heard that, it made me feel even better about the air conditioning situation in my own house. I am pretty sure that with the cold temperatures that we keep our air conditioning set at, the snakes will stay as far away from here as they can! And I think that’s a great reason to have high air conditioning bills!