When no one moves fast....

Okay, so it’s about 94 degrees out right now….the cloud cover this morning stuck around long enough to ensure that the humidity would stay with us. Now it’s bright and sunny, barely a breeze, and you can break out in a sweat just walking to your car. Not only that, it seems to zap you of any energy you may have.

My ride to work is gonna be fun, the air in my van isn’t working, so I just should be a melted mess in the ten minutes it takes me to get there. However! I will be working in the coolest room in the building. But it will still be better than the time last winter, when I had to dig my car out of the snow, wear multiple layers of clothing, drive on roads that hadn’t been plowed, only to find out when I got there, that we weren’t open. A lot of places weren’t open on that day after the blizzard. I’d much rather melt.

For those who are scheduled to work the patio this evening, you’ll probably get the night off….for the rest of the week. I don’t think the ice in the water glass would last five minutes.

If for some inane reason (known only to them) folks decide to sit outside…..we will all be shaking our heads. But if you’re ignorant enough to sit outside, then you’ll probably comment that it is hot, and ask what we can do about it. My first response would be that we could pull out the hose and spray you down, because that is about the only thing that would work.

Then when you comment on how hot the server has got to be, in long pants, and that you feel sorry for them……yeah, well, not sorry enough to sit indoors with all the sane people. Also, if you order something cold, like an entrée salad, don’t complain if it doesn’t stay cold very long.

The heat sometimes seems to bring out the worst in people, as though they were the only one’s feeling it. (We’re just supposed to pretend it doesn’t bother us, while the sweat is pouring off of our foreheads.)

So, if you decide to sit outside today (and that’s a pretty big “if”) do what we do, and pretend it doesn’t bother you. After all, it was your choice that any of us are out there in the first place.  Oh, and don't expect us to be moving very fast.