Friday, July 21, 2006

Need a place to hang your purse?

My nipples enter the room before I do.

The air conditioning in most places is cranked so high that frost is forming on windows. It feels like a meat locker. I find myself looking around for animal carcasses hanging from the ceiling and a man in a white coat carry a big knife. The temperature is 40 degrees and I'm grabbing a sweater before I go anywhere. Does it need to be that cold? I truly appreciate the a/c on a hot day. However, there has to be some limit! People bark and complain about saving energy, so we don't' have another 'black out' like a few years ago. Stores are asked to turn lights down/off and close the doors to the street so that they are not cooling the whole town. Commercials urge residents to turn the a/c down 1 degree. It will save enough energy to power something like 36000 houses if we all do it. I walked into a grocery store yesterday and they were proudly displaying a sign that said "we turned our lights off to save energy." Yay for you.
The air conditioning however was blasting...it was freezing! I nearly poked some kids eye out. I think more energy would be saved if they turned the a/c down a bit. We want some relief, we don't need to freeze. I'm just saying, it's a bit ridiculous.

Almost forgot: it's Haiku Friday!

I'm hot then frozen
One extreme to another
Hey, need some glass cut?

Way too cold in shops
Sweat on my back is freezing
I smell frozen beef


Oh and for the record, I guess we'll have to see if I can walk the walk....the a/c guy is here installing it in our house...no more sleepless nights!

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

I understand completely what you are sayin. While I was shopping for the shin-dig I had to go into the cooler for cheese and milk...yeah like walking into a MORGUE....could see my breathe...you can imagine my discomfort in the nipple area...never good when its so cold they ache!
PS I always need a place for my keys, and honey you always are there for me LOL ;P

Evydense said...

Could a part of it be that it just SEEMS colder than it is, because you only crank the AC when it's stinking hot out, so, by comparison.....

Just a thought!

Mackey said...

Nipples....lol.
Ever since I finished breast feeding my daughter I swear my nipples are hard all the time. My friends laugh but what the hell can I do?!!!
I guess I could tape them every day?
Fuck it.No one has to look!

Calvin said...

hehe, you said 'nipples'.. tee hee!

Leah the Super-Cool said...

Hahah awesome haiku. I WISH it was that cold here. NO ONE has airconditioning outside of the grocery stores. I actually don't have a picture of my ahem 30-lb penis, but it's a good idea! I think I'll wait until I've restuffed him to show his proper form to the world. Upon a suggestion from a friend, I think I'm going to change his name to something more English, perhaps Lord Nutterton? King Penissmith? Henry the VIII?

Distant Timbers Echo said...

I know... Just... How... Y-y-you... f-f-feel!

[shivering at work]

Love ya! Jas...

exile said...

so are we geting a glasscutter themed HNT this week?

one thing i'm guilty of is going to costco into their walk in veggie freezer and browsing for hours. i don't buy anything, just molest the produce until i cool down. (was that tmi?)

The Funky Bee said...

I feel the same way. I have a HEATER under my desk at work! I literally have heat blowing on my leggs during the summer, as I type this as a matter of fact! When summer hits I take a jacket everywhere I go and I even get hot easily that's how cold it is in our stores, buildings, etc...

Randi said...

I've got that nipple problem EVEN IN THE HEAT.

Mythreyee said...

hehe.. completely understand! the ac is turned on full blast here at my workplace too.. my fingers get so numb i cant even type widout knockin a coupla keys all together instead of a single one! crazy crazy crazy!

KFarmer said...

Great blog- I read and enjoyed it very much.

I have on a wife beater and a sweater today at work. I bet outside the heat at 100+...When I leave, off goes the sweater and it's nothing but wife beater :)

Anonymous said...

Keep up the good work. thnx!
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