You want a little cheese with that?
Favorite thing about summertime
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You want a little cheese with that?
No, I haven't. But we get our fair share of snow and cold here in NJ. And clearly you summer lovers have not had to deal with 90 degrees of sticky, wet humid weather riding the subway. Tell me you like summer after 3 months of that!Clearly they have never had to live through a 6 or 7 month New England winter!
Of course this is all subjective and has a lot to do with where one lives. It's all good!
See, I even used my summertime smiley!
It’s summertime... it will spoil in a matter of minutes.
Actually, I have--used to take the bus and subway in Boston but have filed away that unpleasantness of being packed in so tightly that you didn't even need to have anything to hold onto, especially fragrant on the commute home. I'll give you that one as being on the list of not so good things about summer.No, I haven't. But we get our fair share of snow and cold here in NJ. And clearly you summer lovers have not had to deal with 90 degrees of sticky, wet humid weather riding the subway. tell me you like summer after 3 months of that!
Of course this is all subjective and has a lot to do with where one lives. It's all good!
See, I even used my summertime smiley!
I'll still take summer over the freezing cold, driving on icy roads with people hugging the center line because the shoulders aren't plowed well, 8 hours of daylight if it's a sunny day, heating bills, shoveling snow off the roof so it won't collapse, etc. and seemingly non-stop winter, though. 
What I like about Summer in florida is that their are plenty of theme parks and beaches to go to on an off day, and the traffic is better around here because school ends and a good portion of the college kids go back home (I live about 2 miles from the University of South Florida).
Weird fact about me: bugs don't bite me. Ticks fall away, mosquitoes don't even try. I'm thinking it's my diet of bacon and lots of garlic.
Another soulmate!!!
I actually love when the days get shorter and it gets darker earlier. I love the colder temps and having to wear a jacket. October and November make me come alive! People mostly think I am crazy, but there are others like me out there. Every once in a while I meet one and it's like we're in a secret, exclusive club. lol
I assume I'd've grown up liking summers better had I been doing it elsewhere. Summer in Florida and Georgia is too damn humid. No normal human being does well in high humidity; add light-skinned, redheaded one terminally allergic to poison ivy - Georgia's State plant - to the mix and you've got a guy who prefers other times of year. I'm with carrie's younger brother, who describes well my reaction to Autumn. I've always said I felt it turns me on, makes me come alive.
Nevertheless, I believe in Summer. I believe in the Beach Boys, and grilling, and happy people who don't fry to death at the pool within 15 minutes. But I really am sick of hearing on the radio someone raving about can I believe how gorgeous a day it is when to me it's way too damn hot.
This might work for keeping all those hot sweaty people away from carrie's younger brother on the subway.
I needs me some HollyGolightly lotion or spray (makes me no nevermind). SPF 50 preferred.
It could be your diet, but I wonder what your blood type is.
O negative - Lifeblood gets a little bit of me every 7 weeks.
When I remember what Winterland, the Michigan version anyway, was like, I think of humid summers with a bit more fondness. My primary objection was that each winter would last about a year long. In March, when Spring starts in the south, I'd visit family in Atlanta and see rose bushes in bloom, then travel back north where the rose bushes were buried in snow, morbidly, with their dead-looking tops sticking out the top.Clearly they have never had to live through a 6 or 7 month New England winter!
O-negative is one of the more common ones, I think, so that hypothesis is shot. Moving on... It's just that a friend of mine used to repel mosquitos. She has a rare blood type. I assume the mosquitos kind of didn't know what she was, whether or not to eat her. Oh, one more thing: you say ticks fall off of you. Why do you get ticks on you in the first place, where are you spending your time? I can't remember the last time I got a tick, just saying.
I'm sure I wouldn't be as fond of summer if I had to put up with the heat and humidity that you have in the southern and midwest states or if I lived in a big city again but I can't ever see myself preferring winter over summer. I'm not fond of autumn because I know what's coming afterward. I start getting depressed in August just thinking about it! Our springs are cool and wet so although it's great to see things coming to life again, it's not that pleasant to be out and about and rarely warm enough to enjoy being outside for any length of time. That only leaves summer. Maybe once I've had a few years wintering in Arizona, I'll change my mind....NOT!!!!!
I lived in Wisconsin for two years, then later in Michigan for 13, and I won't be surprised if I never miss snow ever again. I haven't so far since I moved back here in 2003. I understand autumn rushing through. In Michigan we were all mental about winterizing. And somewhere down deep I began to need to escape. Summers in Michigan could get much hotter and more humid than one might expect, too. I'll never forget one day, as I sat sweating profusely in a chair in the living room, my ex coming up to me with a double-barreled shotgun, putting to my head and saying, "Buy an air conditioner, or else."I'm sure I wouldn't be as fond of summer if I had to put up with the heat and humidity that you have in the southern and midwest states or if I lived in a big city again but I can't ever see myself preferring winter over summer. I'm not fond of autumn because I know what's coming afterward. I start getting depressed in August just thinking about it! Our springs are cool and wet so although it's great to see things coming to life again, it's not that pleasant to be out and about and rarely warm enough to enjoy being outside for any length of time. That only leaves summer. Maybe once I've had a few years wintering in Arizona, I'll change my mind....NOT!!!!!
How long after that did the "ex" part happen?