Ah, summer. No classes, no professors, no worries, just fun. Right? Well, maybe. Along with summer comes heat and humidity (how bad it is depends on where you live). Along with humidity comes things like sweating profusely, crankiness, headaches and impossible-to-contain hair, just to name a few.
1. Sweating. So much sweating.
There is no way around sweating. From the second you walk outside, to the second you get out of the shower, there is always some part of you sweating. The humidity makes you sweat in places you didn’t even know you could sweat. How did people survive before air conditioning?
2. Glasses wearers beware.
The problem us four-eyes face is fogging. Going from a cool house or car and stepping out into the humidity equals instant fog on your glasses. Having arms full of groceries or other things means you can’t wipe your glasses off so you have to do that awkward blowing upwards out of the corner of your mouth to try to defog your glasses without your hands. Fingers crossed you don’t actually need to see where you’re trying to walk.
3. Everyone is cranky.
Humidity makes people super cranky because you’re so uncomfortable and hot and sweaty. I notice it in kids and adults; everyone has less patience and is whinier because they feel sticky and gross. Even worse, crankiness almost seems contagious so soon everyone is just on each other's nerves for no real reason.
4. Even cold showers don’t help.
No matter how fast you try to dry off, you still seem to sweat before you get to finish. Then you put clean clothes on which are immediately sweated in. This was especially problematic when I lived in an old building on campus without AC.
5. Everything feels wet.
Have you ever laid down or sat on something in the humidity and it feels damp? No one likes to sleep in a bed that feels damp; it’s gross. Even your bed isn’t a safe haven from this monster.
6. Terrible headaches.
Both sides of my family suffer from getting massive headaches when the air pressure changes. Changes in the air pressure and humidity cause horrendous headaches but it also allows me to know when a big storm is coming (but the storm will hopefully lessen the humidity).
7. My poor hair.
I can tell how bad the humidity outside is by how difficult my hair is to style in the morning. Poufy and impossible to just get in a simple ponytail? The humidity is going to suck today.
Summer, I love you, but let’s chill out on the humidity, ok?
