Best overheard heat-related conversation
"It's so hot outside. And it's so damn humid, it's horrible. Walking outside from an air conditioned building is like walking into a wet blanket."
"Yeah, it sucks."
"Like a wet electric blanket, turned up to 'high'."
"What?"
"Electric blanket? Because of the heat."
"...so you're saying that going outside is like being electrocuted?"
"No, I'm... you know what I... shut up."
Comments
I said:
Uh oh, I just realized this is post #299. I'd better step it up for the next one.
Jym Ferrier
said:
Electric blankets scare the pants off me.
I was picking up a moving truck from a storage place a few days ago and the woman said to me "hot enough out there for ya?" I felt let down by the public school system.
Glo said:
Dang. Electrified blankets. That's HOT - and not in the Paris Hilton way.
elasticwaistbandlady said:
I heard talk show host Mike Gallagher going on and on today about a special heated toilet seat that he bought a few months ago. They sold their house and moved last week and he took the toilet seat with him. Seriously. A frickin heated TOILET SEAT!
He said that it has a cord attached to it which begs the question for the male species. When you sit to tinkle and you splash a little on the seat, will it mean automatic electrocution? I can think of much more dignified ways to die.
Lianne said:
Did you hear about the snake that ATE an electric blanket? No, that isn't a punch line to a bad joke, it is TRUE!
BTW, I love the sticky notes.
elasticwaistbandlady said:
Hey lianne! I read that story too.
Electric Blankets; Turning Cold Blooded Animals Warm!
Viking said:
When the dew point is in the high 80s, you know it's gonna be a bad day.
cadiz12 said:
last night it rained and i think the drops were sizzling as they hit the blacktop.
lookin' out for #300!
Becky said:
yeah, it rains here just about every day, and you can actually see steam rising off of parking lots when the showers subside. it's wild.
jasmine said:
not to be a killjoy...but that kind of sounds like the WORST conversation that could be overheard on a hot day...
oh, how i love to be negative and contrary!
I said:
Yes, your negativity has been missed :)
Most of the conversations on days like that end with "yeah, it's hot." It's not often that talk of electrocution comes into play.
I hadn't seen that story about the snake eating the electric blanket. I honestly wouldn't think that would be very big news. I swallowed a penny once, and I didn't make it on any news websites.
Syar said:
actually elastic, electrocution by pissing on a heated toilet seat is quite improbable. I saw it on mythbusters, where they busted this myth about some pissed *hee hee* drunk guy who died by electrocution when he relieved himself and urinated on the third rail at a train yard.
they made a makeshift bladder and found that the stream of pee was not a steady one and could therefore not connect the electricity from the third rail, through the "liquid" to the guy's...uh, thingie.
Syar said:
so this is what Becky was talking about. now I wish I could've spread that story out to a few comments. 300th post, WOOHOO!
pad like mad, pad like mad, pad like mad.
Jon said:
I’m not a big fan of weather conversations to begin with. It’s quite rare that I ever find myself in a situation where I’m just clamoring to talk about the weather.
Having said that, I’d also like to add that Mythbusters is perhaps one of the greatest shows of all time. Thank you.
hey, when did email address become a requirement? Am I going to get Vole Spam now?
cadiz12 said:
yay mythbusters! i love that one guy's mustache. they should do an episode on the probability that he gets food it it at dinner.
I said:
The Mythbusters/Dirty Jobs 1-2 punch is one of the better combinations on TV right now.
And yes, sorry about springing the email required field thing on you unannounced. I'm investigating getting rid of "verification of a word," and this was step 1.
As a side benefit, I've been selling all your email addresses to mass marketers. Times are tough. Don't judge me.
Becky said:
PAD, PAD, HABOOB
LALALALA
Sarah said:
Weinies! A week of hot weather and everyone whines. In the south, it's like this EVERY summer. Highs in the high 90's, heat index over 100, the occasional thunder storm to add an element of steam to the equation.
If you ever wondered why everyone moves slower in the south, now you know why. It's too damn hot to be in a hurry!
Happy heat!
I said:
Southerners EXPECT that every summer. Up north, we don't plan for that kind of heat. It's just like when it snows 2 inches and schools close in the south.
Becky, I applaud your effort.
Sarah said:
2 inches?? We close up schools and buy up all the milk and soup if we hear there may be flurries! 2 inches would be a blizzard down here! :)