It’s hot today, at least here in the tropics. If it’s hot where you are please ensure you have completed the hot day checklist.
- Shirtless man aged about 19 in Tesco Express
- Smell of barbecue being lit from adjacent garden
- Have trouble locating flip flops
- Someone uses any of the words “airless”, “dry heat” or “close” to describe the weather
- Sound of unlocated ice cream van heard several streets away
- Pigeon going “hoo-hoooooooo hoo” repeatedly soundtracks the whole time you sit outside
- Incur third degree burns from a seatbelt
- Participate in, or witness, a debate about whether a cup of tea cools you down or not
- Discover sweat in places you didn’t know sweat even happened
- Walk barefoot on lawn and then feel regrettable feeling of damp feet with little bits of dead grass stuck to them
- Solero
7 comments on “Hot day checklist”
This is almost like Bingo. I got smell of BBQ and sound of ice cream van, maybe with a bit of pidge cooing thrown in for good measure.
I think I had all of these over the course of two days, though now I think about it the reference to the weather was actually that there was “not a breath of wind”.
That sounds like a gen z person. They talk like that all the time:
“Get on the ‘gram and plip out the crud notes. There’s not a breath of wind to speak of.”
I can see you’ve been acquainting yourself with the current youth lingo, ready for round 2 of parenthood. Once that baby arrives it’ll be all Tiktok this and plipping crud notes that. Best to get on top of it all now.
I am on top of it. I am at the summit of the mountain of youth. I conquered it, I slaughtered it, I am the God of…
You know, I don’t often say this but I may have gone too far this time.
I don’t think I could agree that you’re the God of Youth. Not with a straight face, anyway.
You can say it with whatever face you like, sir, I know the truth. I got young game.
Young game? That doesn’t sound right.