We finally convinced my elderly parents to let us air condition their house in the 1980’s. We even told them we’d pay for any increase in their electrical bill. When we next visited (in the heat of midwest summer), it was hot and humid...inside their house was hotter and more humid. We asked why they didn’t turn on the AC. Their response “It makes cold drafts...” Go figure.
Some people just never learned to like air conditioning. I know one man who still runs an auto repair shop even though he is in his mid seventies. He tells me that he used to have a lot of business REMOVING air conditioners from cars. I went to my grandfather’s funeral in July of 1965 and rode with my first cousin in the funeral procession. We were roasting, crawling along with the windows down but he would not turn on the air because it would give him a stuffy nose.