Thin skinned.
Native Angelenos are not the heartiest lot. I was in the grocery store a few days ago when I started noticing that other shoppers around me were wearing thick coats, hats, scarves, and boots - serious cold weather gear. These brave souls dared to venture outside the safety and warmth of their homes on a brutally sunny FIFTY FIVE degree afternoon. Wind chill? NONE. It was perfectly calm. It was so nice, I even had the top down on my car on the way home.
I need to start taking pictures of these people for my midwestern friends to laugh at. I'm still sporting the same t-shirt and jeans I always wear, while the candy-asses around here are all bundled up like it's an arctic expedition. Not to mention how they freak out when this stuff called precipitation falls from the sky. Oi. Vey.
I need to start taking pictures of these people for my midwestern friends to laugh at. I'm still sporting the same t-shirt and jeans I always wear, while the candy-asses around here are all bundled up like it's an arctic expedition. Not to mention how they freak out when this stuff called precipitation falls from the sky. Oi. Vey.
posted by steve at 8:58 PM
6 Comments:
As a thoroughly defrosted New Englander who spent several years in northern Vermont -
Screw you. I'm happy to be freezing in only 55 degrees. That means I'm truly out of the Tundra.
You've put in your time and have earned the right to be wimpy. The natives however, don't even know what cold is, fer chrissake.
Hey, to us this *is* cold. We wear our aversion to cold weather as a badge on our puffy coats in 50 degree weather.
I was outside here in Minneapolis today to get lunch. No coat.
Around 30 deg F, windy and not sunny (on the street between bldgs). That was chilly. But I lived.
55 deg and calm. We won't see that until late Apr/May. Good. Its time for winter. Bring it on!
I hope none of those people complain about global warming... they should be demanding more warming.
I would kill someone for 55 degrees right now.
Now I don't know what kind of thickness is on these coats you're talking about, but as a Native Californian, I know that we enjoy pretending there's a change in seasons and wearing jackets and scarves is cute and stylish!
I apologize for my piss-poor English on that last comment.
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