The great weather debate (as though we could do something about it)

The old saying in Michigan is: “If you don’t like the weather, wait 10 minutes and it’ll change.” All winter long, and it was a looooong winter, we talk about warm weather and how good the sun will feel…planting flowers, playing golf without a jacket on, hanging out at the pool and so on and so forth.

How quickly we forget. Summer showed up all of a sudden this year, and it’s hot. Instead of hearing “Turn the heat up, it’s cold in here”……we hear, “Turn up the air, it’s hot in here.” Or “The air is blowing on me, can you turn it down?” “Is the deck open? Can we sit outside? Is there shade out there? Are there any bugs? Can we move inside if it’s too hot? It’s hot out here, my beer is getting warm.” This is no strange phenomena, have you never sat outside before on a hot day?

I am always amazed that people seem to think that wherever they are, the temperature should be customized to suit their exact specifications. For as long as man has been walking the earth he has had to deal with the weather, with far less conveniences than we have now.

If you are sitting outside and tell me “A bug just flew by,” my initial response is “So what!?!” Did you never learn that they live outside, or were you absent from school that day? Tell ya what….let me go get a can of Raid, and I’ll spray the whole area. Now you’re gonna freak out and say we’re trying to poison you.

We are an adaptable species…and that includes all of us. Did you ever stop to think about the people (servers) who are running around getting your drinks and food, sweating bullets, having to spend time in a very hot kitchen…or what about the cooks who never get to leave the kitchen and get no break from the heat, at all?!? 

So as you sit and wallow in your self-centered world because Mother Nature deemed it should be hot out, I have but one comment, “Screw you.” In a perfect world, you wouldn’t have to deal with the heat, and we wouldn’t have to deal with you.