Of Course It’s Cold

You can usually tell that it’s cold outside by just looking out a window. You can see if there are high winds, blowing snow or plumes wafting up from chimneys of neighbouring houses. You learn to dress appropriately from either being under dressed in this kind of weather once before, or from a good cuff to the back of the head by your mother more than a couple of times in your life.

People will always complain about the weather no matter how nice of a day it is outside. It’s too cold, too hot, I wish this rain would stop, too humid, how long can it keep snowing, too windy, and my all-time favourite, it’s a dry heat, just to name a few.

You would think with all of this attention to weather on a daily basis by, well, everybody you would think that we are all experts on the subject and would never be caught off guard again. And yet some people are still surprised as they walk out the door. This is Canada people. We get winter every year and yes it gets cold.

When you see a person dressed for the winter conditions, walking across a parking lot shivering because of below freezing temperatures, high winds, blowing snow and a wind chill factor that lowers the temperature by another ten to fifteen degrees you would normally sympathize.

When a person is walking across a parking lot shivering because of below freezing temperatures, high winds, blowing snow and a wind chill factor that lowers the temperature by another ten to fifteen degrees but doing this while wearing sandals, thin yoga pants, a sweater that is too small for them and unbuttoned while eating an ice cream cone, I really want to smack them upside the head or at the very least say something. But I don’t. Let’s face it, its cold outside but warm right here in my truck. They probably wouldn’t understand why, without a very long explanation using small words anyway.

Being with my wife at the time, we both look at each other in disbelief and say “Did you see that idiot?” and laugh trying not to stare.