Obnoxious Is As Obnoxious Does...
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 08:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
auntbijouDear Mr. Morning Fuckwit Radio DJ,
Please to stop ragging on us poor, pathetic, thin-blooded Texans who apparently "freak out" when the thermometer dips below 40. Okay, so you're from Nebraska, where you had to walk ten miles to the bus stop every morning through six feet of snow uphill both ways in a driving blizzard, and then had to walk 25 miles to school because your bus passed you by because they couldn't see you since your pants, coat, and hat were coated with snow and thus you blended into the snowbank that was pile twenty five feet high. I get that. You're a big, tough, macho guy who sneers at forty below zero. Goody for you.
The thing is, Mr. Idiot, it doesn't get cold like that for extended periods here. Blizzards are very rare down here, as are ice storms. We might get one or two a year. We may get snow every couple of years or three. When folks down here buy all-weather tires, it's usually to deal with the flash floods we get in the spring and summer. Not for ice and snow. And no, no one here owns chains for their tires because... we don't get that kind of weather down here long enough to make that practical. So yes, when we get ice storms, or snow, etc... everything shuts down. Not because we are wimps, but because cities out here only buy enough sand for high bridges, not for miles and miles of highway, and we don't have road salt. So, people stay home to stay safe.
Besides, who is it that starts crying and moaning and wailing when the thermometer gets up above 95? Huh? What's that, Mr. Wilting Flower?? Mr. "Oh-my-God-it's-too-hot-to-move?" Mr. "Why did I have to come to work today, it's not even 8 a.m. and it's already 98?" Yeah. You. When it hits the triple digits, us natives drink lots of water and head for the shade while YOU try to go jogging at noon and wonder why you pass out from heat stroke. So... shut the fuck up already.
No love and a bang on the ear,
Auntie
Please to stop ragging on us poor, pathetic, thin-blooded Texans who apparently "freak out" when the thermometer dips below 40. Okay, so you're from Nebraska, where you had to walk ten miles to the bus stop every morning through six feet of snow uphill both ways in a driving blizzard, and then had to walk 25 miles to school because your bus passed you by because they couldn't see you since your pants, coat, and hat were coated with snow and thus you blended into the snowbank that was pile twenty five feet high. I get that. You're a big, tough, macho guy who sneers at forty below zero. Goody for you.
The thing is, Mr. Idiot, it doesn't get cold like that for extended periods here. Blizzards are very rare down here, as are ice storms. We might get one or two a year. We may get snow every couple of years or three. When folks down here buy all-weather tires, it's usually to deal with the flash floods we get in the spring and summer. Not for ice and snow. And no, no one here owns chains for their tires because... we don't get that kind of weather down here long enough to make that practical. So yes, when we get ice storms, or snow, etc... everything shuts down. Not because we are wimps, but because cities out here only buy enough sand for high bridges, not for miles and miles of highway, and we don't have road salt. So, people stay home to stay safe.
Besides, who is it that starts crying and moaning and wailing when the thermometer gets up above 95? Huh? What's that, Mr. Wilting Flower?? Mr. "Oh-my-God-it's-too-hot-to-move?" Mr. "Why did I have to come to work today, it's not even 8 a.m. and it's already 98?" Yeah. You. When it hits the triple digits, us natives drink lots of water and head for the shade while YOU try to go jogging at noon and wonder why you pass out from heat stroke. So... shut the fuck up already.
No love and a bang on the ear,
Auntie
