It's gettin' hot in here...
Every winter, I smile as people around me are shivering in the cold and cursing as the trudge through the snow that characterizes the season.
I smile because I'm usually pretty okay with it. Sometimes the season gets truly bad and I want it to go away. But, for the most part, I just roll with the punches and deal with it. Why? Because, in my opinion, it's MUCH easier to stay warm in the cold weather than it is to stay cool in the heat.
And this past week has been proof of that. We've had 90+ degree (Fahrenheit) weather every day since Sunday and it's supposed to continue through this Saturday. Yesterday hit 110 with the heat index. I was talking to a coworker yesterday who was talking to somebody who was born and raised in the bayous of Louisiana who said this weather is unbearable.
It's so true... you can put on as many layers as you want to fend off the cold. It's perfectly acceptable. But when it's hot, there's only so much clothing you can shed before you're arrested for public indecency.
So, yeah, I'm ready for winter.
BRING IT ON!!
It's not often that I get a forward from someone that I feel like sharing.
This one I felt like sharing. I am totally in favor of that which causes craziness, after all.
Thanks, mom.
To Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity
- At lunchtime, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hairdryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
- Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.
- Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
- Put decaf in the coffee maker for three weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
- In the Memo field of all your checks, write 'For Marijuana.’
- Skip down the hall rather than walk and see how many looks you get.
- Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face.
- Specify that your drive-thru order Is 'To Go'.
- Sing along at the Opera.
- Five days In advance, tell your friends you can't attend their party because you have a headache.
- When the money comes out of the ATM, scream 'I Won! I Won!'
- When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot yelling 'run for your lives! They're loose!'
- Tell your children over dinner, 'Due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go.'
- Pick up a box of condoms at the pharmacy, then go to the counter and ask where the fitting room is.
"But when it's cold, there's only so much clothing you can shed..."
Should that be "But when it's warm"?
While I have had my fun in the cold (Clay will make his return), I'm a warm weather guy all the way. Maybe not as warm as KevinAZ experiences down south, but mid to high 90's feel good to me. So I say "WINTER CAN WAIT... Viva la Summer"
Posted by: Marty Mankins | Thursday, 21 July 2011 at 10:35 PM
Yep - I agree with you on the cold weather. The heat makes the air heavy. Plus, even if you were naked, you'd still be all sweaty.
The one about the ATM always makes me LOL.
Posted by: Sybil Law | Thursday, 21 July 2011 at 11:11 PM
Dammit. It was late when I wrote it. Must edit.
Posted by: kapgar | Friday, 22 July 2011 at 06:13 AM
I wanna try so many of those things.
Posted by: kapgar | Friday, 22 July 2011 at 06:14 AM
I have tried 2 of these in the past. I have done the drive through one, specifying my order to go and got the response ... "excuse me?". I also did a variation on that at a sit down establishment and said "and that's for here please".
I would think it would also be fun, in the middle of winter, to ask if you can have a table outside. Wonder how far someone would play that one out.
I also tried the "want fries with that" at work. Yeah, people don't have a sense of humor at work.
Posted by: Bob "Pappy" Richardson | Friday, 22 July 2011 at 08:01 AM
We're used to that heat in Florida, but man, oh man, the north is getting blasted with the heat right now. I feel for anyone who doesn't have an air conditioner.
And I wish all the "forwards" I got were that funny. Alas, most of them suck, and they all come from friends. I just don't have the heart to tell them to take me off their list.
Posted by: Karl | Friday, 22 July 2011 at 10:29 AM
You always did like winter best. That statement about taking off only so much clothing in the name of public decency has been so ingrained in you, that you've forgotten who said it....ME!!! The authoress demands credit!!
Posted by: Suzanne Apgar | Friday, 22 July 2011 at 01:19 PM
Even more fun would be the table in winter at Hooters or the like with the waitresses dressed the way they are. If you ask for that table, they may kill you on the spot.
Posted by: kapgar | Friday, 22 July 2011 at 02:01 PM
Most of my forwards suck too. But I don't get nearly as many as I used to. Or, at least, not as regularly.
Posted by: kapgar | Friday, 22 July 2011 at 02:02 PM
You did? Since when did you ever care about public decency? ;-)
Posted by: kapgar | Friday, 22 July 2011 at 02:06 PM
Yes, I did!!! But I can see how you would question my concern about public decency...I let you out in public, didn't I? How indecent is that?
Posted by: Suzanne Apgar | Friday, 22 July 2011 at 02:32 PM
As I said, since when was public decency a concern to you? You letting me out is just further evidence of your lack thereof. ;-)
Posted by: kapgar | Friday, 22 July 2011 at 02:40 PM
I'm with you on the heat. I'd prefer cold to hot any day. I guess that's why I live in the PNW? The worst for me is the eternal grayness. I miss the CA sun. Santa Cruz was perfect weather-wise. It's one of the main things I miss about it.
Posted by: Sizzle | Saturday, 23 July 2011 at 10:31 AM
I want San Francisco weather and skies all year long. Of course I'd need a job that pays in the seven figures to afford it, but still.
Posted by: kapgar | Saturday, 23 July 2011 at 11:22 AM