Jul
20th
2015
I prefer my weather, and my revenge, served cold. · 5:55am Jul 20th, 2015
I love how this image is plastered over social media every summer.
To this, I say:
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
It has ALWAYS been easier to warm up than it is to cool down.
Even with your body's natural temperature regulation is easier. If it's too cold, you shiver, and you can usually throw on a blanket to help. Not really necessary to throw on the heater every night.
But if it's hot? You start to perspire, you start to smell, and your clothes become a soppy, sweaty mess, and I'll be damned if I'm not throwing on the AC every damned morning before bed.
So yeah, bring on the cold. Summer was only fun when it gave you 2 months off of school.
I've always preferred winter to summer for those exact reasons. Plus, snow is kinda pretty. Growing up in it helps, I guess
3253449 Yep. I grew up in both the Rockies and northwest Indiana. In one, it was non-stop light-to-moderate snow, and then in the other, it was lake-effect snow that could bury you overnight. So I'm more than used to it.
Meanwhile, when I was on the road as a truck driver, I barely survived an afternoon at a Phoenix, AZ truck stop.
Being a Minnesotan, I love winter more than summer.
I'm one of those Minnesotans who wears shorts year round, even when it is -20°F out.
I work construction, and this year is the first I've ever felt the effects of heat stroke. I do not like it. Plus, because I have to wear pants, the only relief I get from the heat and sweat is a bandana I tie around my crown. So, I'm miserable 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Imagine a job where you bake in the summer, freeze in the winter, you can't sit down except for lunch, you're constantly in danger from falling objects, you slowly go deft from the noise, the best understood hand signal is a middle finger, everybody you work with is an asshole (and in the summer, they smell about as bad), you get enough dirt up your nose a day to build a sand castle, the bathroom (if you're able to sneak away to get to it in the first place) smells like a pig farm on a hot day and your shit literally freezes in winter, and you get yelled at for slacking off when you drink water. Not to mention you're constantly being told to hurry by a guy who doesn't have a callus to show. At least this is all mostly better in the winter because I can put on a coat when it gets cold, but I can't undress to get cool in the summer.
Edit: I forgot you were in the military. So yes, you understand my pain. It sucks, and my dad (a former operating engineer) thinks I'm nuts for preferring winter over summer. But every summer I enjoy the heat for about a few weeks, then after the first 90 degree day, I can't wait for winter.
3253515 Wait what? When did I say that? I've never been in the military.
Heat, you sweat, maybe open a window or turn on a fan.
Cold, you're screwed. You can bundle up and try to cover it up with blankets, but that never really works and leaves you shivering all night and with a cold in the morning. All you can do is turn on the heat and pray your building is well enough insulated.
3253525 Oh wait, oops. I think i confused you with another guy I follow who lives in Indiana. My bad!
Ah yes, temperature regulation.
Cold? Add a jacket. Colder? Add more jackets.
Hot? Take shirt off. Hotter? Take.... skin off? Or sit in a cold shower all day or something.
This. I agree with all of this. I loathe the summer.
Don't you mean night?
3254963 I work two night jobs, what do you think?
Agreed. I was just cheering the other day because I went outside on my lunch break and it didn't feel like opening the door to an oven. Woohoo! Plus the smell of the air in autumn just can't be beat.