It's so freaking hot!!
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kathryn
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>Kathryn, I've got a hot little car too and I can't count how
>many times lately that I have reached for my waterbottle and
>swilled extremely not refreshing hot waterx(
>
Oh, yes, Laurie, that IS gross, isn't it? Maybe we can think of it as tea. "Clear tea" "Virgin tea"? Give it a name, and already it's better tasting ! (The good news: we COULD make some sun tea quite easily: car tea!
And I have been known to keep water in my car for a while, so the risk of "backwash bacteria" growing more profusely in the heat is high! (I once was in my office, took a swig of a water bottle I had there, and swallowed before I realized that something had grown in there! Not with heat, but just regular room temp.)
I'm sooo glad I got a new car in November! I didn't have air conditioning in my car for 15 years! Not as much of a problem when I lived in "region IV" on the weather map. But "region V" is a bit hotter! Though I actually like the "hot sauna" feel of my car when I get into it in the parking lot (Do you think it has some of the same benefits of a sauna? ). That is, until the sweat starts coming, and that nice, DRY heat gets humid.
>many times lately that I have reached for my waterbottle and
>swilled extremely not refreshing hot waterx(
>
Oh, yes, Laurie, that IS gross, isn't it? Maybe we can think of it as tea. "Clear tea" "Virgin tea"? Give it a name, and already it's better tasting ! (The good news: we COULD make some sun tea quite easily: car tea!
And I have been known to keep water in my car for a while, so the risk of "backwash bacteria" growing more profusely in the heat is high! (I once was in my office, took a swig of a water bottle I had there, and swallowed before I realized that something had grown in there! Not with heat, but just regular room temp.)
I'm sooo glad I got a new car in November! I didn't have air conditioning in my car for 15 years! Not as much of a problem when I lived in "region IV" on the weather map. But "region V" is a bit hotter! Though I actually like the "hot sauna" feel of my car when I get into it in the parking lot (Do you think it has some of the same benefits of a sauna? ). That is, until the sweat starts coming, and that nice, DRY heat gets humid.
kathryn
Cathlete
>I hear you, Kathryn. I have to keep dodging all the gum
>spots on the sidewalks. When it gets this hot, the gum globs
>melt and stick to your shoes. The streets of NYC are like a
>gum glob minefield. x(
Oh, I forgot about that! That's happened to me before, too.
And sometimes, even the tar seems to get too soft in places.
Though if you need melted chocolate for any reason, it's easy to save energy and melt it in the car instead of using the stove or microwave!
I also had a bottle of poison ivy pre-exposure lotion in my top glove compartment (I have a "double decker" glove compartment), and it was all bloated. I took it out of the car because I didn't want "lotion explosion" to clean up. It started deflating almost immediately!
>spots on the sidewalks. When it gets this hot, the gum globs
>melt and stick to your shoes. The streets of NYC are like a
>gum glob minefield. x(
Oh, I forgot about that! That's happened to me before, too.
And sometimes, even the tar seems to get too soft in places.
Though if you need melted chocolate for any reason, it's easy to save energy and melt it in the car instead of using the stove or microwave!
I also had a bottle of poison ivy pre-exposure lotion in my top glove compartment (I have a "double decker" glove compartment), and it was all bloated. I took it out of the car because I didn't want "lotion explosion" to clean up. It started deflating almost immediately!
kathryn
Cathlete
Good news (for me!). Tomorrow's forcast has the high in the 80's! That's been about what the low has been for a few days.
Unfortunately, today is another scorcher.
I dug out my sun screens for my car (I bought a whole set that is made to perfectly fit EVERY window--even the back one--in my car. But they stick on with suction cups, and some were broken, and I didn't get around to fixing them yet. If someone made a "suction cup fixing workout" video, I'd have it done by now! LOL!)
Unfortunately, today is another scorcher.
I dug out my sun screens for my car (I bought a whole set that is made to perfectly fit EVERY window--even the back one--in my car. But they stick on with suction cups, and some were broken, and I didn't get around to fixing them yet. If someone made a "suction cup fixing workout" video, I'd have it done by now! LOL!)
