I know, allergies, pollution, etc., but I still can’t fathom how people can resist putting their car windows down on this gorgeous 70 degree day. Please help me understand. I get the day-to-day thing, but we’re talking about the first awesome day of spring!
So what’s up?
Well, around here, I think most people have their car windows shut tight today to keep the rain from falling in.
Well for me, I can’t stand the wind. I find it uncomfortable at best, but if I’m driving, wind in my eyes makes them water so badly that I can’t see–even with sunglasses. It also makes it too loud to talk if you have a passenger, or properly listen to music.
<sniffle> <honk> <honk> <applies tissue to nose> Sorry, what did you say? My sinuses and ears are all clogged up.
Seriously, I’ve been clogged up for weeks. I love spring flowers, but they sure play havoc with my allergies.
<grabbing another box of tissues>
Air conditioning is on. 70 is too hot.
Bugs, noise, other people’s radios, smells, the wind, misanthropy, having to extricate myself from my impenetrable Pyrex bubble of protection. Those are all reasons I’d put the window up if I had a car, which I don’t. Spring is overrated.
(oh, and I should add that the “first warm day of spring” is more a cause for mourning than celebration for me. It means winter is over, which is my favorite season. Doesn’t apply so much now that I live in Atlanta, but when I was in NoVa, it meant that I wasn’t going to see snow again until the next winter, which was always heartbreaking.)
Yeah, but say you just got off work (cooped up in an office all day). You wouldn’t put the window down, say, while you were at a red light? Not even for a minute?
It’s all I can do not to strip down and run around the canal naked. Putting my windows down is a given. 
I don’t know, Indygirl.
I love it.
I don’t do it when I’m driving on the Interstate at 80 mph because of the wind, but the second I hit Baltimore, down go the windows. I like the sound, the sight, the smells. Sometimes I roll down all 4 windows and I can almost pretend I’m in a convertible.
Because those cheap GM power window switches wear out too easily. I have to go through the drive “thru” with my door open. I miss window cranks.
Yeah I can say that. I wouldn’t put the window down at a red light for any reason–not really too fond of sucking down idling engine fumes. And as I’ve said, spring is not my favorite season and I have no burning desire to “experience the warm air”.
Keep in mind I spent the first 25 years of my life in the desert, where warm and hot are curse words (at least for me). I’d be FAR more likely to be tempted to put down the windows in late fall when the weather was finally cool enough to enjoy than I am to celebrate the obscenity that is the planet warming up.
The wind dishevels my oh-so-carefully primped locks. 
Opal, are you a little bit goth?
I guess it makes sense, but I am overjoyed at the sight and warmth of the sun. I can’t imagine not taking a *little * joy in it. Especially after sitting at a desk all day!
Can you tell I’m sitting at a desk while it’s nice out? lol.
Sorry, did ya say something? Louder, it’s noisy in here.
Still didn’t hear ya.
What’d’ya mean forget…ah forget it, turn up the stereo some more. I said turn it up! I can’t hear it with this wind.
Wow. Are you a polar bear or a wooly mammoth, perhaps?
I noticed the same thing this morning when driving to work! I had my windows rolled all the way down, the most I noticed anyone else was maybe having a window or 2 cracked open maybe an inch.
Of course I’m paying for it now, because I have been sneezing and itching all day and instead of going outside to sit in the sunshine I’ve decided to stay in this (mostly) pollen free building on my lunch break.
It was worth it, though!!
It’s all or none for me. A little warmer and I’ll put my Jeep’s top down, but the window thing just messes with my 'do.
Not really, though I do enjoy dressing up that way to go dancing. I am just someone who spent their formative years in blistering heat and unrelenting sun and grew to loathe it. I craved the relief of cloud cover, rain, cooler temperatures and whenever I could get it, snow.
My comfort zone is somewhere in the mid 60s.
I find the feeling of sunlight on my skin to be creepy. Probably because I had the risk of skin cancer drilled into my head as a child, and to me, a suntan is just visible skin damage, and the feeling of sun warming my skin just feels like the beginning stages of damage. I’d rather put on a sweater and sit in the shade than wear a t-shirt and sit in the sun. By far.
Yeah, I don’t get this either. I think fresh air (even with some car exhaust) is always better than air conditioned air. ('course, I don’t actually have the AC option in my car nay longer so I have my windows open by default)
I prefer fresh air to AC, but I also hate the wind blowing around – I don’t mind it on a motorcycle because…well…I don’t exactly know. My windows are down at slow speeds only. Otherwise, I put the window down just a couple inches and leave the air on the lowest setting.