NFRC Ahh, sitting in an air-conditioned Dunkin' Donuts drinking a COLD iced coffee...

I remember that - had to constantally wash the car. Skylights got all pitted.

It was gross.

Wasps made a nest in my driver side car mirror this year. A few have gotten in the house before too. Thankfully haven't seen them inside this year. We never had wasps like this when I was a kid.

 
Here in the upper Sacramento Valley in No. CA and inland we have hot summers

and each season is represented. I love three of them but hate the hot summers. We have dry heat, very little humidity, but have had temps to 116° already. It will be 110° this weekend. The nights usually cool down to 60's, 70's, 80's depending on how hot the day is. Where I live, most everyone has a pool, and every house and car has a/c. We have a dedicated a/c to our kitchen and laundry room, which works separately from the rest of the house's bigger a/c unit. When we remodeled, I made sure of this because I spend a lot of kitchen time. It is all good and I really cannot complain except about the heat, which keeps me indoors more than I like. Outdoor stuff is done early in the morning, 5:30 to 8:00 am is my window for working in my veggie/herb garden.

 
Until a few years ago I could never understand why they made such a big

deal on the news about 94 degree heat waves in the NE, or why so many folks were dying. 94 is a comfortable Summer day here. My friend who grew up in Cleveland had to tell me that big sections of the country do not have a/c. When you live someplace that it may be over 100 for six weeks or longer in a row only the poorest of the poor don't have it.

 
speaking of iced coffee........

I have a continuing problem here in the South. I drink black, iced coffee. This seems to be an unknown since I have to do multiple explanations at every counter (except Starbucks, of course). Today I went into a McDonalds in a very small NC town and asked for an iced coffee. I said "no sugar, no milk, no anything". The server said "Plain?" I said "Yes". She then brought me an iced coffee with cream. When I said that's not what I asked for she got very huffy and said, "you ordered plain and that means with cream". Any suggestions?

 
classic - "you ordered plain and that means with cream" maybe she was from Htrae

are you a native? Perhaps there is some sort of local dialect. Like in NY you go anywhere and say "Light & Sweet" and they know what you mean but here in Sonoma County they'd give you a blank stare for that.

Maybe try "straight" "straight up" or "neat"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizarro_World

 
P.S. That graph for your drink order on the side of a Starbucks cup? That was my idea. smileys/smile.gif

I worked for Starbucks back in '95. Unfortunately, I also have a very short term memory unless I write things down. I'd see drinks get messed up, slow down the line for remakes, etc. Wouldn't it be easier if we just wrote it down? We started doing that (initially just for me) and it worked! I started working in other stores and we'd go back to square one. "Could you write it down for me?"

Starbucks is all about 'partner suggestions' so I wrote them, explaining the benefits and drew them a picture. Months later, I got a watch and a certificate. As they say...the rest is history!

 
In this last heat wave I got a recorded call from the county warning of heat/places to go...

never in all the years I've lived here (forever) did I ever hear of reverse calls due to a heat emergency. Many people here don't have ac because we've never needed it. Never knew of anyone growing up who had it. A hot spell was never more than 3 days, then the fog rolled in, but as they say...the climate's changed.

Inland as Karen mentioned is a different deal. Around here we say if you don't like the weather, drive 10 minutes. In the last heat wave there was a 50F degree difference within an hour's drive from the coast.

 
When it's real hot aren't you suppose to drink hot beverages, or did they make that up in a movie?

Someplace I recall hearing that and it was why hot middle-eastern countries drank hot coffee, to help bring your body temp up to equal the outside temp, then you won't feel as hot.

Or, some movie or whatever made that all up and stuck it in a dark corner of my memory.

 
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