# November SUCKS! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 18, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-sucks/275562 "2004-11-18T23:10:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-sucks/275562/21 "2004-11-19T10:30:50Z")
Thank you. šŸ˜ƒ And a Happy B-Day to **Odinoneeye** as well. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-sucks/275562/22 "2004-11-19T10:53:14Z")
November! Spring has sprung! Actually we may even have summer early judging by the last 2 weeks. The child just got back from school camp. The school camp that he didnā€™t take his raincoat for. And he didnā€™t need it! Miracles do happen. On the other hand POOOOOOOO to the hole in the ozone layer. Iā€™m a fairly olive skinned type and I got sun burned reading a book in the garden a few days ago. Me and sunburn are rarely connectedā€¦in November? Never. If any of you Northern hemisphere types wander down this way BRING SUNSCREEN. The sun has got vicious in the last few years. Not hotter but bloody strong. ---
**Author:** ![Anni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@Anni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anni)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-sucks/275562/23 "2004-11-19T11:48:08Z")
Iā€™m typing this one-handed because I slipped on the icy street and broke my wrist. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-sucks/275562/24 "2004-11-19T11:51:57Z")
> [@Anni](#): > > Iā€™m typing this one-handed because I slipped on the icy street and broke my wrist. :mad: And no typos. Amazing how humans adapt. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-sucks/275562/25 "2004-11-19T11:56:51Z")
> [@Cicada2003](#): > > Can humans hybernate? Could I just go to bed now (yawn) and wake up in . . . April? You could try. I canā€™t. I have term papers to write, and then exams. Plus, itā€™s bleeding cold out, and weā€™ve already had snow this year. I do _not_ want to think about what February will be like. Chalk me up as _really_ hating November. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-sucks/275562/26 "2004-11-19T12:08:13Z")
The cold in November doesnā€™t bother me. Iā€™m a northerner. Iā€™ve been through -30 and -40 degree temps with the wind chill and the snot freezing and the bone chilling. Round these parts, November has just gotten so indecisive. Cold one week, warm the next. 20/40/10/58/snow/rain/hail/fog. Itā€™s just such a damn messy month. Bring on the steady cold. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-sucks/275562/27 "2004-11-19T13:39:44Z")
Butā€¦butā€¦my birthday is in November, so that makes it all better, right? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-sucks/275562/28 "2004-11-19T14:16:01Z")
> [@Elenia28](#): > > Butā€¦butā€¦my birthday is in November, so that makes it all better, right? No. But January-February are far worse. Nearly 4 decades of NY winters, and I still canā€™t handle the cold. And to me, a cold day is highs below 40F. Iā€™m ready for a job that shuts down before Christmas and reopens in April (I am unwilling, however, to take a pay cut for it šŸ†’ ) ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-sucks/275562/29 "2004-11-19T14:30:49Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > No. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-sucks/275562/30 "2004-11-19T14:50:06Z")
> [@Elenia28](#): > > Thanks. _De nada_. Glad to be of assistance šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-sucks/275562/31 "2004-11-19T14:55:52Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > But January-February are far worse. Nearly 4 decades of NY winters, and I still canā€™t handle the cold. **And to me, a cold day is highs below 40F**. Uh, see my above post (where I typed about instead of above) :smack: This is why us Nort Dakoahtns can handle the cold. It just fuels our entertainment fires to keep us warm. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-sucks/275562/32 "2004-11-19T15:07:10Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Uh, see my above post (where I typed about instead of above) :smack: > > This is why us Nort Dakoahtns can handle the cold. It just fuels our entertainment fires to keep us warm. šŸ˜‰ Yep. I turn into a big wimp in the cold. I readily admit it. However, I can handle the NEā€™s worst summers with aplomb. ---
**Author:** ![Tio\_Gringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@Tio\_Gringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tio_Gringo)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-sucks/275562/33 "2004-11-20T01:58:12Z")
Another November birthday chiming in. But thatā€™s not the reason I love autumn in general and November specifically. No, I love November because of Thanksgiving (mmmmm, turkey [drools]ā€¦) and because it is the first truly cool month after the scrotal melting heat of a Houston summer. I pit Houston summers, hella hot. :mad: Oh, and Happy Birthday **Elenia28** , **Odinoneeye** , and **spooje**. Any 11/11ā€™s out there? ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-sucks/275562/34 "2004-11-20T02:28:19Z")
Well, I guess itā€™s only fair that November be pitted. After all, **december** was pitted so very many times. Iā€™m sure the other months felt left out. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-sucks/275562/35 "2004-11-20T03:36:30Z")
I lived in Canada for 39 winters, and I freakinā€™ _hate_ winter. For me, the dread used to set in at the beginning of October, when my birthday is. ā€œItā€™s almost over, and soon itā€™s going to get really crappy and stay that way until the end of April.ā€ By November, I was usually despondent. Iā€™m pretty sure I would get SAD. I couldnā€™t wait for winter to be over. I got hypothermia once, from waiting for a bus that never came, during an ice storm. I must have passed out, and someone rescued me, because I have vague memories of being dropped off at home, and getting out of a car. And I got frostbite when I was a kid. I hate the freezing cold! BTW, I hope you donā€™t think Iā€™m bragging or trying to rub your nose in it about my living in Florida (Iā€™ve mentioned it several times in other threads)! That is not my intent at all. Iā€™ve been here for six years, and the novelty of it not snowing in the winter has not worn off. You know, it probably never will. For somebody who hated snow as much as I do, for so long, it has been one of the great pleasures of my life to have wound up in a place where it is highly unlikely Iā€™ll ever see another snowflake for as long as I live. I am living The Canadian Dream[sup]TM[/sup]! ---
**Author:** ![Poonther](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Poonther](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poonther)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-sucks/275562/36 "2004-11-20T20:03:48Z")
Yeah FUCK YOU November! We donā€™t have really cold weather here in November, but we sure do feel your ugly presence November in the form of it getting dark so early in the evening because of the shortening of daylight. Some of your days can be overcast and gloomy which sucks even when itā€™s warm. So to you November I give you the big middle finger and say FUCK YOU! ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-sucks/275562/37 "2004-11-20T20:16:38Z")
Florida is nice this time of year, but May through September pretty much sucks, unless you like 90 degree days with stifling humidity, followed by hurricane season in late summer. But all in all, I will take it over November through March in Chicago. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-sucks/275562/38 "2004-11-21T03:23:50Z")
My heart bleeds. Hereā€™s my local 10-day forecast: Partly cloudy Cloudy AM showers Cloudy Few showers Few showers Showers Showers Mostly cloudy Showers And the PNWers can expect this forecast to apply till, say, the end of May. (And yeah, Iā€™m originally from the Northeast, so I know what the winters there are like.) ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-sucks/275562/39 "2004-11-21T03:40:08Z")
I was just thinking how beautiful it is out there today. Itā€™s not even really cold yet, I just had a long sleeved t-shirt and a sweatshirt on. Iā€™m from a part of California where it doesnā€™t snow and the novelty of having four distinct seasons has not yet worn off; this will be my third winter in the Midwest. I know by March Iā€™ll be sick of it (opportune time to go visit mom and dad!), but right now Iā€™m still eagerly waiting that first morning where Iā€™ll wake up, look outside, and see everything coated in a layer of snow. But everyone in the Chicagoland area should be grateful I donā€™t have a car. Iā€™ve never driven in the snow and am scared to death of trying. ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-sucks/275562/40 "2004-11-21T03:40:26Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > Ya know, itā€™s already started down here. The temperature has been in the mid-50s overnight, mid-60s in the mornings, and I have already seen people wearing parkas and gloves. A woman on the bus today at 11 AM had her kid dressed up in a sweater and a coat with a hood, and a wool hat underneath it. Outside the bus it was 74 freakinā€™ degrees. I was wearing a T-shirt. > > To someone who spent 39 years in Canada, and who knows what -40F feels like, seeing this is either incredibly hilarious, or just plain baffling - Iā€™m not sure which. Itā€™s Florida! This isnā€™t _cold_ fer Ogā€™s sake! What would these people do in Winnipeg in February? Curl up and die?!? Yeah, basically. I grew up in Florida and absolutely _hate_ the cold. I moved to Austin because Atlanta was too far North for me. BTW, Iā€™m hating November because weā€™ve had ass-loads of rain here in central Texas. The river is flooding so we canā€™t row. And Wed night, the dock that had all the coaching launches chained to it, washed over the dam with all the launches still attached. :eek: So no coaching for while. Plus, bleh, grey skiesā€¦ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-sucks/275562.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/november-sucks/275562.md?page=3)