Th U.S loves Fans
Here in England we are enjoying some rather nice sunny warm weather with temperature reaching 30/32oC and as you Americans say high 80s early 90s. Okay so I’m getting to the point, I really don’t want to sound mean in the way I say this but you Americans can’t take your heat! Well neither can some English!Living in a fabulous town such as I do we get lots of American student and visitors over the summer and about a million of you came in my store today and brought loads of fans so much so my area manger went to another store stole them, brought them to us. No sooner had we brought them into the store and check them in a pile everyone was hovering around as if I just taken freshly baked cookies out of the oven.
Okay so I know that all you guys have pools, air-con in your homes. So you must miss it when you come over here and find that we have a heat wave! I also had a few staff members moaning how hot it was and switching on any fans that we’ve not sold. I’m so hot. It’s so hot in here, this heats not good for my ankles. You can’t win can you, we moan when its hot and we moan when its cold. Maybe I’m just abnormal, I really like the hot weather and rarely get over heated. Having said that I miss my cousins pool in Maryland. So I’m really chatting a load of crap as you can see. All these Americans remind me of my long lost friend, you know who you are!
posted by Nothing Really Matters at 12:55 PM
7 Comments:
"Okay so I know that all you guys have pools, air-con in your homes."
You're kidding, right?! Maybe a percentage of Americans have A/C and pools, but NOT the majority, hon! Trust me on this one - I've lived in a lot of places in the US and have yet to have a pool, and the only A/C I have is a lone air conditioner in my bedroom window. When it's 90's and 100's outside, it is inside, too.
Well, I guess I have a pool if you count the big blue plastic monster out back (a child's wading pool) that Sprocket's so afraid of. ;)
I was meaning that in a joke kind way, you new that right dkbb?? Maybe it did not come across the way.
It just kinda seems that way with all the peeps that come over, saying it's so hot, i miss my pool!
I think it's because no homes really have air-con + the fact you do't really need it. Maybe only two weeks of the year!
I didn’t want it to sound as if I was having a go! Does it??? It is just taken in the context of what happened it my shop over the last few day and if you had been there you guys would have thought the same!
Okay I’ll stop now this is really coming out wrong!
oh the heat - my house is like a furnace at night. You realise that you can't get any more naked than naked! and that that air blowing through the open window is just making the place hotter.
I'm sat in a nice air conditioned office now which makes up for being at work. I'd like to be outside though.
The Dixie Chicks were bitching to Jules Holland about British hotels having rubbish air-con. Visitors to our beloved shore don't seem to understand that the sun is also a visitor and we don't really prepare for his arrival.
Sorry to say I'm one of those people who bitches when it's cold and moans when it's hot. I probably also bitch when it's just right but because it never is, I can't really say.
And I'm British and I have a pool...What do you mean taking the tin bath outside doesn't count?
I WISH I had a pool, life would be so much more bearable. I have to say guilty on the A/C, tho. I'm sorry......I live in Texas. People DIE in the heat down here, it ain't pretty. A/C is pretty much a necessity! My dad's side of the family lives in Illinois, tho, and it's rare to see a house that has central A/C there. If they have it at all, it's a window unit.
I totally have a pool, and I don't think I would go outside in the summer if I didn't (OK, my parents have a pool and I use it whenever possible...close enough).
I feel your pain, NRM, although that one summer we lived together, I remember having to buy a bunch of sweatshirts because it was so damned cold. Two years before that, I went to London with my parents and it was in the '90's. People were sunbathing topless in Green Park.
In conclusion, I can take hot weather as long as you don't get humidity involved. Humidity is a terrible, terrible thing.
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