Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Jeopardy: Hot Weather Edition


Answer: A complete idiot.

Question: Who would go outdoors and work in the garden for two hours when the humidity rating is plus 32 Celsius?

But, but, I was in the shade!
I'm still an idiot.

An anecdote about the heat and humidity.

There's a guy who runs down my street every day. I call him The Japanese Running Man, although I have no proof that he is indeed Japanese. But he's a serious runner. No jogger he. And my neighbour tells me he in fact runs twice a day. He's an inspiration. He doesn't trot along looking at the houses, he motors. I admire his dedication.

So this morning at around 8, I'm in the kitchen, making coffee, and I look out the window and who do I see but The Japanese Running Man....and he's walking! He's walking! How wise, I thought.

But that's how humid and uncomfortable it was this morning.

3 comments:

cityofmushrooms said...

I always thought of shade (back there in humid-land) as merely a different coloured hell

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

A cooler hell.
A less hellish hell, p'haps.

Anonymous said...

Don't ever go on holiday to north Queensland - the humidity up there is a shocker.

Re the runner guy - those insane people are everywhere.

And you've probably realised by now that you can get out of the sun but not away from the humidity. Those days are for either 1. the beach 2. lounging somewhere cool and not doing anything.