No winter is complete unless I take a moment to be astonished by the unmanageable hordes of old people in Yuma, AZ.
But something was different -- and better -- this year. It was pleasantly cool for a change. I have little patience for being warm in January. The relief put me in a good mood for enduring the traffic and overcrowding in the stores.
Strictly speaking it isn't the characteristics of the elderly that is so annoying, it is the fact that there are so many old folks, and they are all in one place, and that place happens to be near me!
Worst of all, they seem a little less old to me every year!
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But seriously folks, why is this place so popular? Is it really that important to be a couple degrees warmer than some other place in the Southwest? Aren't their houses, cars, and stores heated? Most snowbirds or campers really don't have an outdoors-oriented lifestyle, so why is the thermometer so important?
And this place is thermally-disgusting all but two months of the year.
But something was different -- and better -- this year. It was pleasantly cool for a change. I have little patience for being warm in January. The relief put me in a good mood for enduring the traffic and overcrowding in the stores.
Strictly speaking it isn't the characteristics of the elderly that is so annoying, it is the fact that there are so many old folks, and they are all in one place, and that place happens to be near me!
Worst of all, they seem a little less old to me every year!
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But seriously folks, why is this place so popular? Is it really that important to be a couple degrees warmer than some other place in the Southwest? Aren't their houses, cars, and stores heated? Most snowbirds or campers really don't have an outdoors-oriented lifestyle, so why is the thermometer so important?
And this place is thermally-disgusting all but two months of the year.
Comments
Moonfly13, yes it is sunny here too. But it can't be much sunnier than many other places in the Southwest.
Perhaps it is symbolically important to people to be in some place that is 'the most...' in some way or other.