For a split second we had a good feel of what winter is all about. Suddenly, it was warm and almost without warning, crazy hot. Are the seasons getting shorter and with it much colder and much hotter? Winter is no longer just cold … it can get freakishly cold and summer is no longer just warm … it is ‘watch my make-up literally melt off my face’ hot!
How hot is it really?
Nowadays many of us have air-conditioners at home and definitely in our cars or at least a roof-fan which remains on – day in and out. We can’t even entertain the thought of being outside for too long. We wear dry-fit clothing, balsam ourselves in anti-perspiration to the point that should we fall over and die, that guaranteed our arm-pits will without a shadow of a doubt, remain perfectly intact for at least another five years.
We wear sunglasses with UV protected lenses and factor 80 sunscreen. Imagine that? Factor 80 sunscreen – which resembles facepaint and takes a good amount of elbow grease to ensure it actually penetrates the epidermis. The problem though is, once you start perspiring, you’re so well glazed that your dermis and even your hypodermis gets so irritated that you soon suffer from irritated sweat pores or even angry dermal papilla.
But how do you stay cool and calm for that matter, when the sun and the heat seem to have a hidden agenda with you? It’s not a problem if you have an air-conditioning system at home, in your car and obviously at the office. You could literally run from one point to the next and instantly feel the coolness on your skin, but what IF suddenly, the air-conditioning of your car breaks down or run out of gas?
You’d have to rely on ‘Cave-Man-Aircon’ and open every window of your car and only be remotely happy when you’re on the move and you have a breeze coming through the windows. Until you stop and feel miserable all over again. Your air-conditioning is not working. You suddenly suffer from angry-skin-syndrome. You simply hate the guy in the car next to you – because you can see that his air-conditioning is actually working. The guy at the street corner who might occasionally get you to flip him a coin, now, looking at him with angry eyes, resembles a good candidate for grand theft auto – you want to knock him over and earn 10 points.
Calm down … it’s not that bad! I heard a rumour that the Voortrekkers didn’t have air-conditioning units either and frankly, I can’t imagine that the Queen had one in that fancy golden carriage of hers.
Enjoy the heat though … it’s a perfect time for pool-parties, ice cold beverages and when your unit in your vehicle is actually working to be that guy/gal who can smile and say whaz-up summer??
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