From a co-worker:
“Where’s your coat?”
Me: “It’s keeping gay Og warm. Straight Og can walk 50 feet from his car to the office door without bundling up like an esquimeaux in 34 degree weather”
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Tuesday 13 Nov 2012
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The Austraelopithicus Word- Smithicus.
I get asked the question all the time.
“I don’t think I’ll get hypothermia with a fifteen-second exposure to forty-five degrees.”
The many different order takers at the local Golden Arches always make me laugh when they pull their coats up tight preparing to hand me my order, as if they were opening a valve to a frozen layer of hell itself….
I always try to keep them at the window a little while longer than I have to, asking for an extra salt packet or a couple of napkins…..
I’ve yet to fire up the furnace (though I have a space heater keeping the chill off in the bedroom), and only wear a jacket when it rains or is windy. Everyone else around me has long since fired up the heat and bundled like Kenny on South Park.
They’re always sick. I’ve been well. I think I found the reason.
Og,
You should see them down here in Houston. It’s quite hilarious. Scarves, gloves, boots, and it was a high of 62 degrees today…and sunny. I think when their skin is dry they mistakenly believe it means they are cold. Brrrr.
lol. I know how it is, but it still funny as hell to see the nutballs bundled up. Great to hear from you again Jerry. I still lust after your hog.
When I was a kid in Alaska I’d haul trash half a block to the dumpster in shirtsleeves when we had a ten degree F warm spell.
My problem is that if I do that often enough, I end up with a bout of chronic bronchitis. And at my age, that’s getting damn close to where it can turn into pneumonia.
So yeah, I bundle up when it’s under 40 out. Ain’t apologizin’, neither.
I didn’t used to wear hats, either (and I’ve been bald since my mid-20’s). After I turned 40 it became a necessity.
Nate: You have a legitimate reason. I don’t even notice cold until it gets to be in the 20’s steady, and even then I gotta be out in it a lot to pay any attention.