It's almost that season again, summer!! Many say it is the best season, filled with sun and sand instead of school. But summer is not my favorite season, here are a couple of reasons why.
1. Sunburns!!
Yes, one of the most dreaded things of summer. Quite the consequence for a fun day in the sun. Sometimes it isn't too bad, but sometimes IT'S HORRIBLE. You're constantly applying aloe vera or Solarcaine just to keep your skin from feeling like it's boiling off your back.
I'm speaking from the experience of someone her burnt their back last year and had to wear button up shirts backward because even a cotton shirt touching my back hurt like hell. You also learn just about how much your skin bunches and creases when you're moving your body; it is a hard way to learn that sunscreen is a must in the summer. Don't forget the horrible agony of when it starts to peel.
2. Bugs
Lightning bugs are fun and all but let's not forget chiggers, ticks, mosquitoes, horse flies, June Bugs, the list goes on!! Some bugs just hang out around you and annoy you because you're sweaty (sweat bees). Others are thirsting after your blood and will wreak itchy havoc on your entire day!!
3. Snakes
Need I say more than just the one word? I'm a regular old Indiana Jones when it comes to snakes, keep them away from me!
4. The heat
One of the most notorious traits for summer, it gets hot. Hot. Hawt. HOT!! Frying an egg on a sidewalk can actually happen, melting scented wax cubes in your car to make it smell good can be a thing and baking a tray of cookies on the dash of your car can be a delicious reward. Hot cars with hot leather seats plus you in shorts, yeah the heat sucks.
5. The humidity
It may be hot, but you know what makes the heat worse? Humidity! Yes, instead of just having a higher body temperature and being hot, let's make you sweat, but be sticky. Let's make sure your hair NEVER looks nice at any time during the season because of your one true enemy, humidity.
6. Weird sweat stains
With work, heat, and humidity, you're definitely going to sweat. But the more embarrassing thing about sweating is how it appears on the body, sweaty armpits and sweaty thigh impressions after you get up from a chair.
7. Weird tan lines
Be very thorough in your sunscreen application or what is laying on you out in the sun. You may receive endless torment from your friends for having raccoon eyes or for having a bowl and spoon on your thighs because you ate ice cream out in the sun.
Let's not forget to mention farmer's tans and rednecks. My best tan lines one year were from my watch, my class ring and the horseshoe necklace I was wearing that day!!
8. Being pale and going swimming.
Yep. If you're like me and your stomach and legs NEVER see the sun and you go to a pool party. Be prepared to notify a car, a bicyclist and even a satellite orbiting in space of your location on this Earth, because you will be bright white, but with extremely tan forearms.
9. Dehydration
It seems like no matter how much water you drink while out working you still end up with a horrible headache and a little bit of dehydration.
10. You can only remove so many layers of clothes before it's deemed public indecency.
It is very true and this is why I prefer to be cold over hot, you can always add more layers, but in the summer, it doesn't take much for the cops to arrest you for public indecency. And no, I don't think a good excuse is "because you got too hot."
