I threw a birthday celebration for our best neighbor last week, and she turned twenty-one, plus every one of us all wanted to celebrate with her.
She was the last in our friend’s circle to turn twenty-one, and we planned for the celebration to be at our house, since I was the only 1 who didn’t have an apartment, or still live in the dorm.
Somehow, our twenty guest celebration limit, turned into at least fifty people, plus there was little room to move. I had a couple of windows open to cool it off, plus I turned the thermostat down, so the oil furnace wasn’t always turning on. All the bodies in the house, was giving off enough heat that I didn’t need the oil furnace. Throughout the night, I heard the oil furnace running, plus I would go over to the thermostat to check it. I usually had to transfer someone away, who was leaning against the thermostat. I thought it was accidentally being turned up, which is why the oil furnace was coming on. I turned the thermostat back down plus said nothing. It was nearly midnight when I heard the oil furnace turn on again. I walked over to the thermostat, plus our bestie was there. She told me someone kept turning the oil furnace off, plus she was turning it back on for me. I almost laughed, because I never thought to tell our friends that I had turned the oil furnace off because of everyone. I couldn’t be mad at her, so I gave her a hug instead. She gave me a strange look, but she hugged me back.