Hot Enough For Ya?

Seems you can’t go anywhere without the weather being the first topic of conversation, “Hot enough for ya?” people ask, and I reply that, yes, indeed, it is hot enough for me but it’s the humidity that is the difficult part and then the conversation generally devolves into me complaining about the weather, the fauna—especially the fauna with teeth and an appetite for wedding flowers---and the beauty of air conditioning. Which---and I truly believe this---is probably the greatest invention in the history of mankind.

Oh sure, some people will argue the virtues of air travel or the microchip, but I believe both of those things would be useless without air conditioning. Nobody in their right mind would climb on a multi-hour flight to (or from) Atlanta, Fort Worth, or even Portland without air conditioning to keep them sane.

 Computers don’t like heat either and prefer to be kept in a cool comfortable environment.  As a matter of fact computers function better when the temperature stays in the civilized range: 68*-74*.   (OK—that may or may not actually be a FACT, but for purposes of my story we’re going to treat it like one. At least I function better when the temperature is in that range.)

And forget about the marvels of modern medicine—air conditioning makes most of them possible—can’t have a bunch of crabby scientists sweating over a petri dish---going to get a lot of inaccurate results that way. And there are plenty of miracle cures that require a cool environment.

I suppose at this point somebody might suggest that I’m confusing air conditioning for refrigeration but I’m not ---after all, what is air conditioning but just another way to turn your house into a comfortably furnished walk-in refrigerator? In this heat, that’s the perfect place to stay.