Margo à la Maude

It's sooooo hot that...

- CBC gave today's forecast as sunny, with a 60% chance of spontaneous cumbustion

- I turned the radiator on as a form of air conditioning

- The Government comandeered all Dairy Queens and only let them serve people at risk of overheating: the elderly, homeless and pregnant women. It was originally just the homeless and elderly, but have you ever tried to stand between a pregnant woman and a Dairy Queen on a 40°+ day?

- Satan turned to the teller working next to him at the Motor Vehicle Licensing Bureau and asked "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

- Obstetricians stopped measuring fetuses in growth percentiles in favour of the more appropriate "rare, medium or well-done" chart.

(Margo, modeling the latest in stay cool off-the-shoulder wear)


Yeah, it was pretty hot today. It started at a humidex of 25°C at 7:00 a.m., and by 5:00 p.m., it was 43° with the humidity. I went out to run errands with Margo this morning, trying to stay on the shady side of the street. On the way back home, I ducked through a mini-mall at the end of our street to cool down in the A/C, and when I stepped outside, the heat actually caused Margo to wail as if she had hit a wall.

Heat makes you tired, and being tired makes it hard to go out to air conditioned areas, because you're never far away from naptime. And the Catch-22 is that she didn't really sleep very well either, so the situation compounds itself.

Oh well. That's nature for you. Human-altered nature. The only tricky part is that most parts of Canada, when you factor in humidity and windchill, face an 85°C difference between hottest and coldest over a 6 month period.

Suck it up, Margo, it could be worse; you could be living where your parents grew up, where summers may not have been so humid, but you had to carry a shotgun with you to protect yourself against mosquitos and black flies.

- Michel

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