Every year, my church hosts a shopping trip event for the ladies of the church and their friends. The object is to give the ladies some time to enjoy themselves and go shopping. It is one of my favorite weekends of the year. Everyone gets together in small groups and chooses their own shopping destinations. The entire group, though, stays in the same hotel, and we have a meeting in a conference room on the first night to play games and have a question and answer time. Normally, this meeting is the best part of the trip, but last time, it ended up being miserable. At the beginning of the meeting, everything was great. The thermostat was set at the perfect temperature, and the indoor air quality was amazing. We were all having a great deal of fun. After a little while, though, we noticed that things were getting colder. The air conditioning had been continuously running ever since we started the meeting. The climate control was fine while we were running around and playing games, but once we stopped to have the more serious part of the meeting, the air conditioning was just overbearing. It was the middle of summer, so we were all dressed in light, summery clothes. Only a few of the older ladies had thought to bring a sweater. The pastor’s wife sent me to go ask the front desk about turning down the air conditioning. I went to the front desk, but they advised me that the air conditioning was its normal temperature, and they were not sure they were authorized to adjust the thermostat. They had to call in a manager just to get approval to adjust the thermostat. It was thirty minutes before we got some relief from the air conditioning!