Summer seems to be in full swing and with it comes all the heat one can handle, doubly so where the majority of the people reading this article are located.
For me it’s a love and hate affair with the highly hot days of Summer, due to it always being in the way of either my comfortability or my activities.
First, my childhood was one spent in the (quite hot) Summers in Chicago without air conditioning as my dad as a rule did not believe in it due to cost.
Many sweltering afternoons were spent sweating my behind off on one of Chicago’s infamous one hundred plus degree days, because heat islands are definitely a thing.
To say those days were uncomfortable is an understatement.
A fan can be your best friend on such a hot day, but once you cross ninety or more degrees, it pushes hot humid air on you and while it is better than nothing, it still leads to some uncomfortable times.
Also without air on nights like that sleep can be hard to come by, anyplace your body touches the pillows, blankets, or even the bed becomes a spot where sweat will accumulate.
This leads to some very uncomfortable nights full of tossing and turning and very little sleeping.
In the eighties and nineties there was no air in the Chicago public schools either so there was no relief even when you were away from home.
Back then school ended for Summer vacation in mid or late June, so there were plenty of uncomfortable days in class sweating while learning about history or geography.
Beyond the long term battles once waged on my body by the overzealous sun, I’ve never been a big fan of the hot days for other reasons.
For one thing I am a very heavy sweater and of course on those hot days sweating is a part of the program.
Thing is I hate sweating and as I used to walk everywhere it made daily activities a chore and harder to accomplish, especially during those aforementioned hundred plus days.
It’s been made worse as several times in my life I’ve had a bit of a belly, so the times I was heavier I became self conscious of the fact that people might blame the sweating on the extra poundage.
Also I’m a fall baby for all the difference that might make and was born in the late October chill before those infamous Midwest winters so my thermostat seems to be tuned into the cold more than heat so although I love the weather of Fall and Spring (minus the possibility of severe weather!) Summer climates were never my favorite.
Of course I bring this up as it’s hot where I am currently, over ninety degrees and climbing as I’m writing this and it brought to mind all the ways I really am not a fan of really hot weather.
Some people actually like the heat of those sunny Summer days but of course those people are insane…I’m kidding, but seriously what is wrong with you?
