Unions!

My mom's car

We had some neighbors when I was a kid, it was a second marriage, so it was all very 1981 over there: Atari, first husband Dad guy picking up the kids on Friday nights, Hi-Infidelity blaring... The interesting thing about these folks was as soon as it was about mid-April and temperature got to about 68 degrees they would turn the a/c on and leave it on until October.  This sort of waste offended my weird skinflint mom who would sneer "unions!" about it, because the fact that Dad #2 was some sort of auto worker guy and was in a union explained how all this willynilly spend-thriftness occurred in the first place.