I've never lived in a place where there is no bonafide winter. In fact, I laughed out loud last night when they issued the first "deep freeze warning" of the season. As such, I also have a whole lot of clothes that are appropriate only for winter/cold.
I don't understand it, but for some reason, Texans find my cold weather clothing hilarious. Today, I went to work today in my very favorite article of clothing - my red, puffy, down vest. If I could, I would wear it everyday. However, knowing that the doctor would have the heater turned up to 80 by 10 am, I also wore a skirt and flip flops.
And, yes, the first thing, someone demanded the key to the thermostat while also making fun of my vest. Well, dumb ass, if you had this same vest, you wouldn't be cold, would you?
All day long...ALL DAY LONG...people were saying that they were too cold or too hot and in the mean time, I was taking off or replacing the vest as necessary. I was never uncomfortable. I tried to smile through all of the referrals to the vest such as, "you don't know how to ski" or "it looks like you are headed to Siberia".
But, in the end, I had the urge to strangle nearly every person that came into the office for complaining about the cold without making any effort to combat it and thereby causing me to literally throw the key at the nurse when she asked for the key to the thermostat for the SEVENTH time of the day.
I thought that the Japanese talked about weather/temperature a lot. Turns out that they're nothing compared to Texans.
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Damn Texans. The funny part is that if youe vest was bright orange, half the women in your office would confess to owning one. Also, along with their confession would come a story of how they showered in deer urine, woke up at 4:00 am, and froze their a$$ off in a deer stand. And, their only reward for doing this was a hangover and tobacco stained teeth from the Copenhagen.
The funny thing about it is that a lady in the office did say that she had an orange vest that she never wore. And guess what she brought as a gift for me today? That's right, an orange vest (that's also three sizes too small).
One of the best things is that any building built prior to 1990 doesn't have a heater in it and as such, anytime the temperature dips below 40 degrees schools are cancelled because they can't keep them warm enough. Gotta Love Texans!! (I still think you should write a book about it. Heck, I'm from Texas and I think you are funny.)
Maybe you could pretend to "lose" the key... just an idea. Hehehe. I'm evil.
Oh, I already gave the key up. I'm tired of having to be the center of the biggest fight in the office!
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