I f@#$*#g HATE summer.

Trick or Treating in Texas is most children’s first exposure to gambling. You never really know what the weather will be; I can remember growing up in Houston sweating my balls off in some kind of soldier outfit in about 1982 because it was like 85 degrees. And I can remember more than one Halloween where half the people’s costumes were ruined by the necessity of having to wear a jacket over them.

But… while Shagnasty may be some kind of tropical type, I’m clearly descended from Norsemen, kilt-wearing clansmen and other northern European cold-weather types. I’m hairy, I’m pale, and if the temp is much above 50, I’m not even bothering with a jacket, unless I’m spending more than a couple of hours out in the weather.

Your car doesn’t have a heater?

Or a blizzard.

I’m the same way. I can’t stand hot. It gets much above 65 and I’m suffering because it’s too hot. Fortunately, I live in the northern Plains so I can always look forward to winter.

Count me in-the dew point here is >75 F, it is terrible.

The heater only works inside the car, not on the walk to it.

Just how far away is this car? If it’s within about a block, you don’t really need to ‘suit up like an astronaut’ just to get to it. :slight_smile:

I thought I was the only person who hated summer. I have found my people!

I always hated it, even as a kid. I preferred to say indoors with a stack of library books but my mother made me go outside and play. When I was running around, screaming with my friends I enjoyed it. But overall summer did not make me happy.

I’d much rather deal with bitter cold than boiling hot. It did not help that for 26 years I owned a horse and went to the barn every day to tend to him. Riders think having a heated barn is the bee’s knees. Hell with that, give me an air conditioned barn anytime.

You’ve added something in there I didn’t say. This county has codes on height, not greeness. My neighbors would call code enforcement on me if the yard got too high.

You’re welcome. I brought it with me in my pocket. :smiley:

(I’m visiting the San Diego area with my family this week.)

FYI- my forecast up through this time next week. How miserable.

**Today: ** Mostly sunny, with a high near 98. Heat index values as high as 104. South wind 10 to 15 mph.
**Tonight: **Partly cloudy, with a low around 80. South wind 10 to 15 mph.
Thursday: Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 100. Heat index values as high as 105. South wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 79. South wind 10 to 15 mph.
Friday: Sunny and hot, with a high near 100. South wind 10 to 15 mph.
Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 79. South wind around 10 mph.
Saturday: Sunny and hot, with a high near 101. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 80. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday: Sunny and hot, with a high near 101. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 80.
Monday: Sunny and hot, with a high near 101.
Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 80.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 99.

It can get a wee bit warm here in Florida, too. Today, I forgot I’d let my schnoodle out for a pee. When I remembered and went to retrieve her, she was melting into the asphalt. I got to her just as the tip of her nose went under…and she gave one last, muffled, “woof.”

Ah well, she was getting pretty long in the tooth…time for a new pup.

I envisioned this completely differently than you meant it.

This is so true! One of my favorite memories from the 80’s was the time I took my younger sister and a couple of her friends trickortreating one Halloween. She had (on her own and we never figured out where she got the idea from) decided she wanted to be ‘the Chiquita Banana Lady’. She had us take her to craft stores to get fake fruit to make a hat/headdress; she took some old outfit of our Mom’s and made this ruffly sleeved and skirted outfit with a bare midriff. She was so excited and proud of her outfit. (It really was awesomely cute.) She was somewhere in the 9-11 year old range, so the outfit was kinda scanty but it was on a kid still, so it wasn’t ‘sexy Chiquita Banana Lady’. Halloween gets here and a cold front come in and it. is. FREEZING! So I take her and her couple of friends out door to door, and the friends were like vampire and ghost or whatever. It was so cold, my sister had this giant coat over her outfit. And the people answering the door would do the whole “ooooh, A scary vampire! Ohh no! A ghost! Aiiiii!” Then they’d get to my sister who had a bunch of fake fruit on her head, a lot of makeup, and big hoop style earrings…and a giant coat.

And they’d say, “Honey? What are you?”
My sister: “I’m the Chiquita Banana Lady.”

And they would just give her this quizzical look, and she would briefly open her giant coat so they could see the outfit. And they would give her another odd look and give her some candy and say something noncommital, “ohh, that’s…nice.”

A few houses in I realized I was basically shepherding my sister around while she flashed neighbors for candy. Then I got the giggles. I didn’t stop her, b/c HEY! I GET A CUT OF THE CANDY!

Oh yeah! BIG PIMPIN’!!!

(In my defense, I’m 11 years older than she (my only sibling). That was hilarious!)

I’m so glad I’m the only person in the office so no one had to hear my snorty laugh.

Heh, my sister was Jasmine from Aladdin once. My aunt made her the mid-drift top specifically designed to go over a turtleneck. Costumes around here are basically designed to fit over sweaters and leggings.

Ditto, minus the hairy part. :smiley:

No, silly, that’d be spelled P E A.

Oh my, hold the phone…you meant…why you dirty old codger, you!

Second to none!

Looks like I chose the right time to meander back to the SD forums.

Resident of Fort Worth here. I was at the Trader’s Village flea market in Grand Prairie last Saturday, helping man a booth. This is a booth in the fucking shade, mind you. I’m sitting in a chair, keeping hydrated… and I still managed to faint from the heat, while on the store’s eBay account listing items. According to my ‘partner’ at the booth, I just slumped over to the side a bit, tongue hanging out of my mouth, with my hands resting on the laptop keyboard.

Thank Nature he didn’t take a photograph.

This is precisely why Houstonians and Beaumonters and such need to zip it and count their blessings.

Let me be clear: I actually love hot, humid weather… when it is accompanied by late-morning-to-late-evening “tropical style, daytime heating” scattered showers and storms. It’s a great environment for me–I thrive in it.

I mean, there’s actual clouds in the sky to moderate the heat, actual wind from the storms’ outflow… and if you get a good “roll of the dice” and get actual rain, well… let me say right now that I consider that “after the summer rain” outside air to be one of life’s little pleasures. :smiley:

Plus, I’m a big weather buff and love tracking the storms. :stuck_out_tongue:

I love Houston weather in the summer, because even when high pressure has planted its big, shitty ass over this region, the sea breeze off the Gulf still manages on many-to-most days to cause actual cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds to form and their resulting showers and storms to occur.

Up here in North Texas, the heat and humidity just… stew. Fester. Like closing a pile of dog turds inside of a plastic bag and leaving it in direct sunlight.

Anyway, for the rest of the North Texans here, there’s a bit of hope! Pete Delkus is saying that, by Thursday, the high will slide to the west and allow a “cold front” to slide down to the area, stall along the Red River, and bring actual clouds and scattered storms, and highs “only” in the mid-90s. Here’s hoping he’s right.

And, if he’s wrong, I’ll be more than happy to lead the angry mob at the Channel 8 studios. Pitchforks optional. No torches, though–we’re already on fire here. :stuck_out_tongue:

Oh, and a note to add about winter: I’ll gladly and happily take being dressed comfortably in a basketball jersey and jean/leather shorts in hot, humid, stormy weather over having to be all bundled up in twenty gazillion layers to even go outside because it’s like 15 degrees and there’s a foot of snow on the ground–as was the situation back in February here in Fort Worth–twice.

Leather shorts?

Never mind, I don’t even want to know.