Poll: I hate summer

[Wintermute_v1legacy]

I'm used to it. I live close to the equator and all I get is 12 months of summer. My concept of "winter" is summer with rain.

 

[RedDeadFred]

I don't hate it, but it's definitely my least favourite season. I have a lot of allergies in summer. I actually take a prescription nasal spray because of how bad they are, but even that doesn't completely allow me to avoid them. Also, if it's too cold out, I can put on a coat. If it's too hot out, I'm shit out of luck because I'm already only wearing shorts and a t-shirt.

 

[pookie101]

well we are just entering winter here, having 100 year floods and 3000 people so far have been ordered to evacuate

that said i detest summer so please keep the heat for as long as possible

 

[Zetatrain]

Count me in as a fellow hater of summer, I have all the same problems as you plus one more. ANTS.

There's ant nests outside my house and I have to take steps keep the ants distracted and keep them out of the house. Trails of the fucking things coming into the house and into the kitchen. If I had access to technology that could destroy all ants in human inhabited areas I'd use it in a heartbeat. On summer ants are not mere pests, they are a disease.

O man, you have my sympathies

I'm currently dealing with carpenter ants and while it doesn't seem like they've nested in my house (yet) dealing with them is still a pain since they more resistant to traditional ant control methods.

 

[Drops a Sweet Katana]

I love summer. It's not my favourite season (either spring or autumn take that), but the weather is infinitely better, if a bit too hot at times (but coming from Southern Ontario to England puts my 'too hot' beyond even hot weather). I live on the coast about 20 minutes from the beach. I like doing things outside which is always better when the weather's nice, especially barbecues. It's lighter for longer. Rain is a lot nicer when it's cool things off rather than amplifying the cold that already there. The only problem for me is having a loft room back home, which gets stifling.

 

[Evonisia]

I'm fairly certain I burst into flames at any temperature above 10C, so fuck summer. And in Britain we don't even get it, it's just warm but it's still overcast. I love all that gloom and rain in winter when it's cold and it suits the atmosphere, now I'm just uncomfortable and wet.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

I love summer, but please bear in mind I live in the north of England. Our four seasons are:

Spring: Unending rain.
Summer: Summer showers scattered with brief sunny spells.
Autumn: Unending rain.
Winter: Sub-zero blizzards.

Summer isn't so much 'good' here as it is 'least shit'.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

Ech, I can't stand summer! It gets way too hot and humid, the sun is too damn bright, the roads are clogged up with idiot tourists, there are bugs everywhere, and it's TOO DAMN HOT.
Give me cold weather any day of the week over this hot summer bullshit.

Hell, even if I enjoyed the warm weather I still wouldn't be able to enjoy it because of the damn bugs! My town has a horrible infestation of these big ass green biting flies, ticks everywhere, black widow spiders everywhere, and an endless amount of mosquitoes. I have to marinate myself in bug spray just to go outside for 10 minutes!

Oh and my house becomes a fucking haven for spiders of all kinds!
I'm terrified of spiders.


And it's too damn hot.

 

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

I am in Texas, which gets much hotter than the UK, but I actually like summer. Granted, if I did not have Air conditioning, we would actually die here, so it is the Air conditioning that keeps us alive and comfortable during summer. People wear shorts all year round here and bikinis most the year since we rarely ever even see snow. I actually went jet skiing on Christmas before if that gives you an idea of what our weather is usually like. Summer is nice because there are no school zones to slow traffic, businesses stay open later and I can walk around in a bikini and it does not seem weird. I don't like wearing clothes to begin with so when I can wear less it is far more comfortable for me personally.

Spring of course is still my favorite.. I love spring flowers in blooom.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Summer has its issues, but it's my 2nd favorite season.

I live in Vancouver, and we're a rainy city many months out of the year. During the summer, those rains pay off, and it's a very green, temperate city with beautiful weather. Like everyone, I don't care for being "too hot", so a good heat wave can take the luster off the season awfully fast, but in general Summer is pretty nice. The good weather will often carry into fall, without the heat wave risk, so Fall is definitively my favorite.

Winter has Christmas and lots of other holiday time, and on rare occasions snow, so I like it okay. Easier to warm up from being cold than the opposite.

Spring is an endless march of rain and darkness. I loathe it.

 

[Bobular]

How about this OP, I trade you our British cold winter weather for your hot summer!

Ok I admit I haven't been sleeping well cos the sun keep waking me around around 4-6 at the moment. However since this is the only time we actual get hot summer, I would rather have that anytime over the cold winter. I hate constantly feeling cold, getting lumps on my skin (cold exposal) and aswell seeking any heatsource for warmth!

Heck this is the only time I can just wear a t shirt and not have a jumper or shirt covering it up too!

Considering I live in the North of Britain, I will indeed take you up on your offer to swap British summer for a second British winter, may actually get snow for more than an hour a year

Count me in as a fellow hater of summer, I have all the same problems as you plus one more. ANTS.

There's ant nests outside my house and I have to take steps keep the ants distracted and keep them out of the house. Trails of the fucking things coming into the house and into the kitchen. If I had access to technology that could destroy all ants in human inhabited areas I'd use it in a heartbeat. On summer ants are not mere pests, they are a disease.

I've had ants for the last couple of years, but this year I have been thankfully free from ants this year.

I'd love to live somewhere that a complaint could be "It's too hot outside".

Could you imagine that? You'd go outside and it'd be warm! Even our hottest requires at least a shirt and a t-shirt.

Where do you live and what is the immigration policy like?

 

[Cheesy Goodness]

I live in the southern U.S. and the summer months are usually pretty brutal here. Our peak temperatures get extremely dangerous in July and August. The humidity also makes things absolutely unbearable. You can hardly breathe and you instantly start to sweat by just by briefly walking outside.

I completely detest doing yard work in the summer. The extreme heat makes my yard grow much faster, which means I get to cut the grass more often. To not pass out from heat exhaustion, I have to mow the grass very early in the morning, preferably before 8:00 A.M.

The only thing worth doing outside is the local water park. The problem is that everyone else feels the same way and you end up burning up by waiting in long lines. My wife and I tend to go the movies a lot when we want to get out of the house.

 

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

I live in the southern U.S. and the summer months are usually pretty brutal here. Our peak temperatures get extremely dangerous in July and August. The humidity also makes things absolutely unbearable. You can hardly breathe and you instantly start to sweat by just by briefly walking outside.

I completely detest doing yard work in the summer. The extreme heat makes my yard grow much faster, which means I get to cut the grass more often. To not pass out from heat exhaustion, I have to mow the grass very early in the morning, preferably before 8:00 A.M.

The only thing worth doing outside is the local waterpark. The problem is that everyone feels the same way and you end up burning up by waiting in long lines. My wife and I tend to go the movies a lot when we want to get out of the house.

Yea where I live at in Texas, many people mow their lawns at night here. You can actually die from attempting to do that during the day, so not advised. Most people where I live have their own pools either at their home or their own community here so that is where everyone hangs out. In the pool, on the lake and playing sand volleyball.

 

[FillerDmon]

I live in the South-East United States, and seem to be very in the minority, then. Maybe I'm just used to temperatures (being relatively okay with anything south of 105% before being "too hot"), but I don't dislike the weather. I like wearing sunglasses (Albert "Complete. Global. Saturation." Wesker is probably responsible for that), but even then I don't think it's too bright. Bugs suck, yeah, but -except- in Winter I'm always dealing with bugs, and Winter brings constant colds that I can't crush in hand or foot so that's a bit of a trade. Then Summer brings Swimsuit Season. And I will take the downside of people horribly out of shape for the upside of people who make their swimsuits look awesome (granted I'm -REALLY- lenient when it comes to body-shape).

And with all of that, I actually also dislike Summer, preferring Spring and Fall, which are usually about the same just before/after Summer, and can achieve similar in them with the advantage of nature looking fantastic. You know why Summer itself pisses me off?

EVERY MOTHER FUCKING THING AROUND ME GETS TWICE AS EXPENSIVE! Gas, Movie Tickets, Food in a lot of places; prices get jacked the fuck up EVERYWHERE! Fuck that noise! *hiding inside and protecting wallet like a newborn baby*

 

[Callate]

I appreciate that more people have time off. And if you can spend time by the water- especially at the beach- it's not so bad.

But I would be pretty happy if it never got above 80 F, and that's really just not the case anymore. The room where I type this gets painfully hot, even with a couple of frozen water bottles in front of a fan. I'm the person in my family who produces body heat throughout the winter and is great to snuggle next to when it's cold, but I'm kind of a heat battery when it's not, and that gets brutal.

 

[Barbas]

The thing it's not just in my backyard, it's in the backyard, front yard, on the sidewalk, and across the street (and other places I can't seem to find). It's not just taking out a few nests, it's taking out nests that seem to pop up out of nowhere.

Well then...

Spoiler: Let us give thanks to Father Prometheus for blessing us with the secret of fire!

Don't get any on your shirt!

 

[Riddle78]

I hate summer and winter. But I still hate summer more; You can at least dress for the cold.

 

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

ANTLIONS!

We had trouble with a nest of those flying things in the cracks between the paving stones in the backyard last year. I boiled a full kettle of water and poured it over them, then repeated. Dealt with them nicely.

The thing it's not just in my backyard, it's in the backyard, front yard, on the sidewalk, and across the street (and other places I can't seem to find). It's not just taking out a few nests, it's taking out nests that seem to pop up out of nowhere.

Texas has year round problems with ants, so much so it was actually winter, not summer that they knocked out our phone lines and internet in my old apartment by chewing through the wires in the box.. like something straight out of a scifi horror.. the ants took out communications before they attacked..

But to get rid of them though I think they pour a powder maybe Orthene or something on the mounds that kills the queen and they disappear for a while, then sprinkle it around the entire perimeter of the exterior of the house to prevent them from coming in.

 

[shrekfan246]

I used to say that it's easier to get warmer in the winter than cool in the summer, but as an adult who drives a car I've changed my mind. The heat can be annoying as fuck, however it doesn't even come close to the pain of standing in the snow, in at least -10C, trying to scrape the ice from the windows of the car and no matter the time it's constant, complete darkness.

I'll take dealing with ice over a steering wheel that's practically melting any day of the week, to be honest.

Plus, in the summer heat a car basically just becomes a large, portable oven, and at least here in Vermont there seems to be an overabundance of cars that have sub-par air conditioning and fantastic heaters.

I'd love to live somewhere that a complaint could be "It's too hot outside".

Could you imagine that? You'd go outside and it'd be warm! Even our hottest requires at least a shirt and a t-shirt.

Move to literally anywhere in the US.

I'm in one of the northern-most states and we've already had near a solid week of 30+ C weather, coupled with 70-90% humidity. Thankfully it's cooled off a bit again for this week, but I don't think that bodes very well for what the end of this month/July are going to be like.

 

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

I used to say that it's easier to get warmer in the winter than cool in the summer, but as an adult who drives a car I've changed my mind. The heat can be annoying as fuck, however it doesn't even come close to the pain of standing in the snow, in at least -10C, trying to scrape the ice from the windows of the car and no matter the time it's constant, complete darkness.

I'll take dealing with ice over a steering wheel that's practically melting any day of the week, to be honest.

Plus, in the summer heat a car basically just becomes a large, portable oven, and at least here in Vermont there seems to be an overabundance of cars that have sub-par air conditioning and fantastic heaters.

I'd love to live somewhere that a complaint could be "It's too hot outside".

Could you imagine that? You'd go outside and it'd be warm! Even our hottest requires at least a shirt and a t-shirt.

Move to literally anywhere in the US.

I'm in one of the northern-most states and we've already had near a solid week of 30+ C weather, coupled with 70-90% humidity. Thankfully it's cooled off a bit again for this week, but I don't think that bodes very well for what the end of this month/July are going to be like.

You do not have your steering wheel covered? Maybe since I live in Texas, this was just something I thought everyone did. My steering wheel, seats and car are not usually very hot, but I have those all with covers that prevent that and use a Sunshield for the windshield when parking in the sun. That also helps with keeping everything looking new and smelling fresh (Especially helpful when my niece and nephew are in my car throwing popcorn and spilling drinks) since they can be removed and cleaned easily.