# Your Most/Least favorite things about Summer? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 12, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-least-favorite-things-about-summer/312196 "2005-07-12T16:02:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-least-favorite-things-about-summer/312196/1 "2005-07-12T16:02:03Z")
Apropos of my San Diego location, I’ll start with a couple of beach-related items: —Riding down the face of a nice big wave. —Getting nailed by a stingray. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-least-favorite-things-about-summer/312196/2 "2005-07-12T16:03:45Z")
Most: Renaissance Faire. Least: _Everything_ else. Except ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-least-favorite-things-about-summer/312196/3 "2005-07-12T16:12:26Z")
Most: the smell of freshly mowed lawn Least: freshly mowing the lawn ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-least-favorite-things-about-summer/312196/4 "2005-07-12T16:17:59Z")
Heat. I can’t stand heat. I hate it. I like being out of school, though. ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-least-favorite-things-about-summer/312196/5 "2005-07-12T16:19:32Z")
Most: it’s warm. Least: it’s too warm. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-least-favorite-things-about-summer/312196/6 "2005-07-12T16:21:41Z")
Most: Getting home from work and being out in the garden reading or puttering for a couple hours. Least: Listening to people bitch about the heat. I _love_ hot weather. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-least-favorite-things-about-summer/312196/7 "2005-07-12T16:25:20Z")
Most: Heat Least: Humidity \*actually I’m not that fond of the heat either. I’m more of a winter person. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-least-favorite-things-about-summer/312196/8 "2005-07-12T16:30:09Z")
Most: Lots of daylight in the evening, hot & dry weather, no rain, thunderstorms (I used to live somewhere that got them, and I still like them), wearing flip-flops or sandals, smaller loads of laundry (lighter clothes and fewer socks) Least: Air conditioner quitting on me, hot steering wheel when I get into my car ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-least-favorite-things-about-summer/312196/9 "2005-07-12T17:23:36Z")
Most: No snow. Least: Being sweaty and hot, sticking to chairs, being asked to endure direct sunlight. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-least-favorite-things-about-summer/312196/10 "2005-07-12T17:25:51Z")
Most: Extra hours of daylight. Least: Sweat running down my face. I cannot stand that. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-least-favorite-things-about-summer/312196/11 "2005-07-12T17:28:07Z")
Jacobs Field, or any ball park, during a game on a warm summer night. Mosquito bites, and there are some very hungry species around here who seem to like my blood an inordinate amount. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-least-favorite-things-about-summer/312196/12 "2005-07-12T17:31:58Z")
Most: Thunderstorms. Least: Nights when it’s too hot to get a good night’s sleep. (Yeah, I know, we really oughta just break down and get an air conditioner.) ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-least-favorite-things-about-summer/312196/13 "2005-07-12T17:33:35Z")
The weather: Bad I begin to sweat like a pig. ☹ Good Good looking people sweat like a pig, so the begin running around pratically naked. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-least-favorite-things-about-summer/312196/14 "2005-07-12T17:51:12Z")
Least: Florida is like a sauna from May to November. You can’t even open your windows, or the house feels like outside. If not for central air conditioning, nobody would voluntarily live here! Most: I live in a college town. The view is spectacular. And if you make it through a summer without melting, your reward is that it eventually cools down. Seven years ago, I traded one kind of discomfort for another. Any complaints I have about how hot it is here are trivial compared to how cold it was for 38 winters in Southern Ontario. If I never see another snowflake, it’ll be too soon. I’d much rather be hot than cold. ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-least-favorite-things-about-summer/312196/15 "2005-07-12T17:56:10Z")
Most: walking into an air-conditioned house after working outside for a while. Especially if I know there’s cold beer in the fridge. Least: prickly weeds in the backyard, dead grass in the front year (yeah, I know; it’s a bad-landscaping thing, not really a summer thing). ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-least-favorite-things-about-summer/312196/16 "2005-07-12T18:02:29Z")
Most: Vacation!! Least: yardwork :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Jinks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d9b06d/32.png) [@Jinks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinks)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-least-favorite-things-about-summer/312196/17 "2005-07-12T18:11:24Z")
Most: Visiting the coast, thunderstorms following a heatwave. Least: The heat, allergies (hay fever), longer days (damn noisy kids), flees, mosquitoes, school holidays (damn noisy kids)… Give me beautiful, cool, wet late Autumn days instead. ---
**Author:** ![Jinks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d9b06d/32.png) [@Jinks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinks)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-least-favorite-things-about-summer/312196/18 "2005-07-12T18:15:20Z")
Oh, I live in the UK so a heatwave is anything approaching 30C ---
**Author:** ![Nvme77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Nvme77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nvme77)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-least-favorite-things-about-summer/312196/19 "2005-07-12T18:37:28Z")
Least- the 113 degree weather today- with about 0% humidity Most- swimming at midnight because its still 95 degrees ---
**Author:** ![gfloyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d2c977/32.png) [@gfloyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gfloyd)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-least-favorite-things-about-summer/312196/20 "2005-07-12T20:16:54Z")
I love fresh fruit, the laidbackedness of most people, walking around at night. I miss thunderstorm here in California, though. What’s a screaming hot day good for if there isn’t a big storm at the end of it. I hate the humidity of summers back in New England. I hate the fact that my car is turned into one fo the circles of hell by the sun. I hate getting sunburned, although that doens’t happen much. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-least-favorite-things-about-summer/312196.md?page=2)