It just occured to me I don’t know if there’s an etiquette regarding quoting Twitter bits in blog posts, so I’ll fudge along.
Anyway, the other day (yesterday?), Twitterer #1 twitted about it being 36 degrees and uncomfortably cold. Twitterer #2 said she wished it was 36 degrees where she is (paraphrasing), and I said we don’t even zip our coats for 36 degrees. I thought about that exchange today.
I had some errands to do in the big city, so I pulled on a hooded sweatshirt and threw my coat in the passenger seat (because it’s a well-known New England fact that getting on the highway in the winter without your coat will result in either a blown tire or mass engine failure). I was walking through the Best Buy/Target parking lot, enjoying the beautiful day and the sun on my face and the fact I wasn’t weighed down in outerwear, when one of those outdoor sign thermometers caught my eye.
It was 33 degrees. 
I also drag-raced a Saab into the merge point of a two-lane on-ramp and won. Nice day. :groucho:
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33 – So…that’s like practically summer for y’all isn’t it?
It hit almost 70 here yesterday and we took the Harley out for a ride to dinner. Some nimrod was in the restaurant with sleeveless shirt and shorts. Dude..not quite summer since as soon as the sun dipped below all the buildings it dropped about 25 degrees fast. Bet his…parts….got cold. :lmao:
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LOL! It’s like here with rain. People in other places use umbrellas when we don’t unless it’s a deluge.
But, I stick by my response to the cold comments – I purposely don’t live in places where it being that cold is normal!
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Oh man!
We’ve been having a cold snap over here in sunny central FL (just above freezing for a couple of days, if anyone is interested) and I’ve been wearing thermal underwear and stuff–and still feeling cold!
My blood, it be thin.
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I remember seeing people in shorts and sweatshirts in 35 degrees when I first moved to New England. I thought they were INSANE. Two years later, I was pumping gas in my shorts and sweatshirt and realized…it was 35 degrees.
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LOL! I was doing the same thing here today, we actually hit 37(ish) and have been running around with just a sweatshirt.
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I am soooo cold by nature, but even I didn’t have gloves or my earmuffs on this morning (had them with me, no mistaking it). It was a balmy WINDLESS 27*. The husband’s been wearing his hoodie with a denim jacket over it most of the winter, except to snow-blow or work outside. I’m used to my big coat, but once you’ve survived -40 windchill, everything else is gravy, right?
I’ve decided my Jeep should be a summer car. It’s damn near impossible to buckle the seatbelt when wearing a heavy winter coat and of course, layers underneath it. Clearly the seats were made for size 0 women who live on the equator.
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Here in southern Michigan today it was about 34 and sunny when I went out for lunch. I seriously thought about putting the top down on my car, but road spray from all the melting snow made that less appealing.
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I was having the same thoughts today! It went up to 38, 30 degrees warmer than it’s been at times over the last two weeks. I wore my slippers to the bus stop.
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A version of that happened to me today and I thought of Netti’s twitter.
I thought “whoa baby it’s warm enough to skip the coat.” I figured it had to be at least 50….it was 38. The one advantage to weeks of hideous cold means less hideous feels like heaven.
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I refuse to live in a world where 35 is balmy.
Unless the sex is great. I’d live in 35 degree temps if I got hot sex every night I wanted it.
What?
Admit it! You would too!
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It rarely (never?) hits 35 in San Diego. When the temp dips below 50 we’re shivering in heavy jackets. Wimps, all of us. : )
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I went to the bus stop in Capris the last couple of days (I live around an hour north of Shannon), however, tonight it’s supposed to dip back to the -20s. :doh:
Shannon, did you ever get the mass email about temps in NE? The one where Floridians freeze to death while we’re having the last bbq of the season?
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33 – So…that’s like practically summer for y’all isn’t it?
When it’s been subzero for a while, it’s definitely like a bright early-spring day at least. And I don’t want to hear about 70-degree Harley rides, thanks.
No seventy for us, and no Harley, either.
To all you cold-weather commenters who were enjoying the same beautiful day, I hope you enjoyed it a lot, because it’s over. Bah humbug.
We’ve been having a cold snap over here in sunny central FL (just above freezing for a couple of days, if anyone is interested) and I’ve been wearing thermal underwear and stuff–and still feeling cold!
My blood, it be thin.
I saw that on the news! It works both ways, too. We went down to Florida in April back when the Short Kid was one, and I almost died. I wandered the Disney Parks in a constant state of near-dehydration/heat stroke and I can’t even fathom how people live there. How do your kids play baseball outside? How do you even walk to the mailbox? I felt like that TV survivor guy crossing the Gobi just to get to my car.
Here in southern Michigan today it was about 34 and sunny when I went out for lunch. I seriously thought about putting the top down on my car, but road spray from all the melting snow made that less appealing.
The line at the car wash was incredible, since it was finally warm enough to wash them without the locks, doors and trunk freezing shut. Of course we all then drove back out into the road spray from the melting snow, but they were spring-shiny for a few minutes.
Unless the sex is great. I’d live in 35 degree temps if I got hot sex every night I wanted it.
Sadly—very, very sadly—that’s not the reason I live here. I wish it was. I think when your hands are still damp from dishwashing and the mail comes and you accidentally freeze your hand to the mailbox, a few astronomical orgasms would make it much better.
It rarely (never?) hits 35 in San Diego. When the temp dips below 50 we’re shivering in heavy jackets. Wimps, all of us. : )
But…but…how do you know when it’s Christmastime?
Shannon, did you ever get the mass email about temps in NE? The one where Floridians freeze to death while we’re having the last bbq of the season?
I did, and I just reposted it. I think it’s hilarious!
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how do you know when it’s Christmastime?
When we see Santa surfing! : D
LOL at the next post. New Englanders are crazy!