Worth it? Don't ask me before at least tomorrow.

[susandennis]

It is now 5 pm and the game is over (we lost big time) and it is 93 degrees. Twitter tells me the last time we got passed 93 degrees in Seattle was 2002. Record high for this day is 88.

Sitting in the sun for 4+ hours was less than fun. The pregame meal was fabulous. The bloody mary was really really good. And then it just went downhill. The game stared at 1. The shade over my seat started at 4.

I am surprised I did not get arrested on the way home for being too dirty to be in public. I am a gross bag of sweat and too tired to do a thing about it. And now Zoey has decided this is a great time to cuddle. Yeah, cat fur and sweat. GREAT combo.

Next day game is at the end of July. I hope by then I will have forgotten how miserable today was.

Thankyoujesus for my air conditioner.

Comments

[meowmensteen]

Everyone in Seattle is dirty and sweaty right now. We handle heat about as well as we handle driving in snow. Not good.

[susandennis]

Seriously, this heat is stupid and gross. I feel so badly for the pride parade people, too. What a shit show that must have been.

[meowmensteen]

I'm sure glitter is just as bad as cat hair on sweaty skin.

[(Anonymous)]

Yuck! Sounds like an NFL game in Florida in September with a 1 o'clock kickoff.

[dcjaywalk.livejournal.com]

The worst thing is probably that a lot of people in the PNW don't have air conditioning.

I went to three Sacramento Republic soccer games in the last two weeks, all of which kicked off above 100 degrees. Not the best experience, but I love the game enough to keep doing it.

I feel I'm getting soft, though. After growing up in the Middle East, I thought anything under 110 was great weather for outdoor sports even with high humidity. (Typical weather in Dubai in June is highs of 105-110, and humid.) But then I also thought of 75 degrees as too chilly for a t-shirt or shorts, and 65 degrees as unbearably cold.

[susandennis]

OMG just reading about your growing up fry makes me cringe so much.

Interestingly, I grew up in heat (and humidity) with no air conditioning but my response in my old age is to be far less tolerant of too hot than most people. Backlash. I feel like I've done my time.

And, yes, not many people have air conditioning here in their homes. There's a newish (3 year old) apartment building across the street and some of the units are air conditioned but not all of them which I think is weird as heck.

Also, interestingly, the stores and restaurants (that do have it and not all do by a long shot) do not crank the a/c up to frigid like they do in the south and other hot places.

[dcjaywalk.livejournal.com]

Hmm, my parents are the opposite. They grew up in Taiwan (tropical monsoon climate), and as they've aged they've been less and less tolerant to cold. Their preferred room temperature is in the 80-85 range, and they consider Houston the coldest place they'd want to live long-term.

I played soccer in 100+ degree heat growing up, and loved it. After returning to the US, it took me years to get used to night games when the temperature might be under 70 -- my thought was something along the lines of "How can people stand running in such cold air?"

[howeird]

Yeah, 93 in Seattle is just plain rude.
OTOH, I have been dictating my letters home from Peace Corps, and at the end of the one where we had moved training sites from central Thailand to the far north, it said "weather is cool here - only 88°"
:-)

[susandennis]

I do remember when I was young, in the South when anything under 90 was sweater weather. It was before I had brains, I think.

[nick-101.livejournal.com]

Definitely not worth it. Dealing with the heat in this stadium must be far worse than watching the M's lose, even to if it's the best team in the majors.

[susandennis]

Yes Yes Yes.

[siobhan63.livejournal.com]

Last summer, a group of us from work got tickets to an afternoon Jays game and it was the same thing -- full blast sun until about the 7th inning, when the shade finally made its way over to our section. And it was one of Toronto's lovely hot, humid July days. And we'd gotten there super early because they were having a free t-shirt give-away promo. Just ick.

That said, I caught a bit of the Mariners game as that was the broadcast they went to after the Jays-KC game ended. And I saw that promo campaign they've got going -- hashtag where I root. Made me laugh -- I guess they don't get the Australian slang meaning that root has... :)

[susandennis]

I don't either. I'm guessing 'root' is man slang for fuck? OMG it must. Hilarious. I hate that Where I root crap but from now on I'm going to just crack up! Interestingly. One of the Mariner commentators on that network is a former pitcher from Australia. Surely he must get a giant giggle every night.

[siobhan63.livejournal.com]

Yep -- "root" is Aussie slang for "fuck". The Canadian clothing company Roots had (and continues to have) many guffaws at its expense when it went global.

[susandennis]

Thank you thank you thank you. You have turned one of my daily annoyances into a daily giggle. Seriously, a great gift.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

I remember growing up on the Texas Gulf Coast with just an attic fan. How did we do that?

[susandennis]

I have no idea. The very thought of it now makes me want to just crawl into an ice tray. But we did. I spent all my growing up in 100 degrees/100% humidity with maybe a floor fan but probably not.

My relatives lived in Oklahoma City summer after summer with only a swamp cooler. We loved to visit because... they had a swamp cooler!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm back home from the record heat in AZ to the fact that I am probably going to have to turn the heat on tonight. What the hell? It's almost July, can't I have some sort of compromise? If I leave the house tonight am I going to have to wear my winter coat? They're forecasting 48 degrees.

smh