I'm confused

[urbpan]

What part of being soaked to the skin with ice water makes people like living in New England in the winter?

Comments

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

you're just not wearing the right clothes!
you need more layers!
you need fifty dollar underwear!
you need a coat made entirely of super absorbent tampons!
you need a lobotomy!
you need a stiff drink!

[ndozo.livejournal.com]

Maybe there were tampons in the parka I wore today. I thought it was down, but it really held a LOT of water. OB--The SuperAbsorbent Parka.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

yeah, i left my down coat at home and wore my super-waterproof-made-in-china-found-raincoat. yes. i found it in the park several years ago and it is so great.

[donnad.livejournal.com]

Well you know, us New Englanders know how to dress for the weather. Rain gear and boots were the uniform of the day today, didn't you get the memo? :)

Cheer up, spring, AKA mud season, is just around the corner.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

yeah yeah yeah

Dressing for the weather this morning meant getting the costumes from "The Perfect Storm." Rain gear didn't cut it, for spending an hour chipping ice in the deluge.

At least I don't have to chip, shovel, bail or pump out the mud. (actually, I do shovel mud when it accumulates in the fox enclosure.) It can't come soon enough!

[anais2.livejournal.com]

Gah! Get over to UPS, Your package is there!!!
Warm and dry calling....

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Dammit! I didn't get home in time. I'll pick 'em up Monday. Thanks so much! I'll post a picture modeli g them!

[gwodder.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I gotta say, my favorite part about the New England winter is going out in it and staying dry and warm, if a little rosy-cheeked. :)

[miz-geek.livejournal.com]

The part where we work inside, organizing and labeling our office supplies, instead of getting rained on :)

Seriously, if I had to work outside in this crap I'd be whining constantly. Even volunteering isn't as bad, because you've got that feeling of doing good to make up for cold, wet, toes.

[rumorofrain.livejournal.com]

I think to live in New England, you have to love violent contrasts. (And we wonder why people think we're crazy...)

[ndozo.livejournal.com]

That would be the character-building part you warm-blooded whiner. It's wicked good for you to be cold, wet, and miserable. Good for your complexion. Keeps you tough. Ready for next winter. And the one after that. And...

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Some deep part of me agrees with you. Not only am I a New Englander, and not only are both my parents New Englanders, but they all were, going back multiple generations. Except for one group who were...wait for it...

Canadians.

[ndozo.livejournal.com]

I've always thought that the reason people who grew up in warm climates (mainly California) were so often goofy was that they didn't have the winter to make them read or whittle or build models or knit or do anything to avoid going outside and freezing. They just play beach volleyball all the time in the warm sun. But I think your character may be built enough. I know mine is. The icy-cold-wet thing just is not fun.

[broken-angel.livejournal.com]

*gasp*

So they whined about Canadian weather and moved to New England?

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

oh geez. my character is already built with almost 40 winters of the same crap.

[perigee.livejournal.com]

Dude, the part I never understood about Boston, is what the hell is up with people walking outside in the below-zero eating ICE CREAM?!?!?

[harrietbrown.livejournal.com]

Wow, I thought I had it rough today standing for 30 minutes in the rain in a waterproof parka waiting for a cab. Your day puts it all in perspective. I'm ashamed of whining *hangs head*