11 Reasons Why Summer Is Overrated
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11 Reasons Why Summer Is Overrated

Wake me up when summer is finally over,

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As a child, I looked forward to summer vacation every year. The break from school meant I could spend my days carefree and with my best friend. As an adult, summer is much less fabulous. If fact, as I sat sweating my life away yesterday, I saw a tough realization: summer is actually really overrated as an adult and I'll tell you why.

1. It's just *too* hot

Summer is fun and all until you need to go outside and it's almost one hundred degrees. Anything over 80 is heinous and unnecessary and I want nothing to do with it.

2. Sweating isn't my idea of a ~summer activity~

You know it's mid-July when you break a sweat just walking out the door to get in your car. But really, there's nothing like the summer heat and humidity just melting your face off.

3. The sun is hateful in the summer

Life with porcelain skin gets so much harder during summertime. Like seriously, whats a girl gotta do to not fry like bacon under the summer sun? I'll take some SPF 1,000, please.

4. Lawn care is for the birds

It's already hot and gross out, now you're telling me I have to mow the grass EVERY WEEK?? It's an outrage.

5. Summer fashion is low key awful

Rompers that make you get naked to go pee, sandals with awful tan lines, and shorts with that one annoying inseam? No thanks. I'd rather sweat to death in my black-on-black ensemble. Wake me up when fall comes and I can start layering again.

6. "Summer vacation" doesn't mean much when you have a job

Friend: "Hey do you want to-"

Me: "Let me stop you right there, I have to work."

7. Humidity is not your friend

Let me put it to you this way, I haven't bothered to style my hair in almost two months. No matter what you try doing to your hair, by the end of the day humidity has wrecked it and turned your hair into an actual birds nest.

8. ALL. OF. THE. FREAKING. BUGS.

Summer literally turns you into a walking buffet for mosquitoes. I can't sit outside for more than five minutes without being eaten alive. And not just mosquitoes, there's also flies, gnats, June bugs, and a bunch of other little jerks out there ready to ruin your day.

9. Swimming pools are actually just public cesspools

Countless studies have revealed just how gross that public pool is, but then who could be too surprised when some folks treat them like giant bath tubs and toilets. Plus there's always screaming children nearby... No thank you.

10. Beaches aren't much better

Beaches are like public pools, but with fewer chemicals, more trash and fish poop.

11. Fall has much more "instagram-worthy" activities

Bonfires, football games, hay rides, pumpkin everything... the list goes on and on. There's a lot more *aesthetic* than sweaty bodies and frizzy hair.

So if you don't mind me, I'll be hiding away in my home with the A/C cranked complaining until this literal hot mess is over.

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