It was the same way when I was a kid. My favorite season was fall, when school started, with new books and classes, and the leaves started to change, and there was a little chill in the air. And it was marked the beginning of the great holiday season that began with Halloween, picked up momentum with my birthday and Thanksgiving, and careened into Christmas.
Winter was great, too, with bright skies and biting cold air, wrestling tournaments, sledding, and snow men. I even liked shoveling snow (my brother and I started a snow-shoveling business).
Spring was ok, but a little rainy and muddy, and no good holidays. Valentine's Day? St. Patrick's Day?
And summer -- don't get me started!
Here are the Top 10 Things I Hated About Summer
2. It was too hot.
3. But my parents insisted that I play outside, where there was nothing to do.
4. I could get sunburned in 10 minutes (in those days, we didn't use sunscreen).
5. There were thunderstorms almost every night, so we had to unplug the tv, thus missing our favorite programs.
6. There was nothing good on anyway, just reruns.
7. I had to go to bed when it was still daylight, and I could look out the window and see all the other kids in the neighborhood playing.
8. My parents kept holding barbecues, picnics, and other activities where you had to eat outside, off paper plates, with the bugs and the dirt, and the wind that blew everything away.
9. We always went on a horrible week-long camping trip, with nothing to do but swim in muddy water, sit in a rowboat waiting for a fish to bite, and walk around in the woods. What gay kid wants to mess around with that gross stuff?
10. And I spent another week at Nazarene summer camp, sleeping in drafty cabins, with nonstop sermons (mostly about boys liking girls) and sports, and the bathroom down a mosquito-ridden path
But there were a few things that made summer bearable (almost).
See also: the Kensington Runestone.
But you get to see a lot of cute guys in shorts and shirtless not too mention swimsuits
ReplyDeleteQuite a number of cute shirtless boys in shorts. That's a plus.
ReplyDeleteIn a college town the overall hunkitude decreases during the summer, but there are still a number of shirtless guys around.
ReplyDeleteI hated that the sun never came out in summer, only in the fall once school started again (typical PacNW story!). I hate guys in "dork shorts" swim trunks. Does anything look more ridiculous?
ReplyDeleteI actually enjoyed the Summer more when I was a kid than now
ReplyDeleteI swear, if one more person tells me to "get outside and enjoy the day," I'm going to start yelling. You don't "enjoy" the outside, you go through it to get to inside places.
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