I’m taking this opportunity to vent. I just got back from a year long deployment from a snowy, mountainous region. I’m geared for cold, used to the cold. Even at the hieght of summer there, it was like … 70°F. They decided to demobilize us in El Paso, TX!!! It’s murderously hot here every day, and our barracks don’t have AC!!! So after walking around all day in a head to toe uniform in Texas desert heat, I don’t even get the luxury of feeling cold, crisp air 😭😭😭
It’s stories like this that make me glad to have joined the Air Force during peacetime. The closest I got to what you’re experiencing is walking from my car to the office.
I’ll never forget the HEATED TENTS in week 6 in BMT we were using in February. I thought being in the military was hardcore, and here I was sitting in a luxury tent. This was in the year 2000 pre-9/11, don’t know if they still have them.
They didn’t have those when I went through basic in '98, but then again we only had two days of FTX and basic was 6 weeks long total.
What they did have was arctic sleeping bags. You don’t need a heated tent with one of those things. Sleep more than 30 minutes (which was about how long they gave us that night) and you’re sweating, even in the cold.
Yes, this deployment taught me I need to switch to the air force when my contract is up. I like being in the military, I’m just over being army infantry. I did the cool guy stuff! Get me a desk job!!
Sounds like you need to be doing that venting in some air conditioning! I’m a cold weather guy myself, and if I could send you on a trip to a freezer for an afternoon I’d do it!
No, I haven’t cuz I’m from Germany
I’m enjoying this simple meme so much.
Not a super cold one, I’d hate that. A moderately cold one will be great, though.
The first time I ever went to Albuquerque it was in the middle of July. Every day I was there was over 100 degrees. Being outdoors felt like being in an oven, and the inside of my car felt like a blast furnace, but all the businesses had their AC cranked up to arctic temperatures. My whole experience of being there was moving back and forth between absolutely roasting and completely freezing with basically no in between. It was extremely uncomfortable. This was almost 20 years ago, and to this day I don’t think I’ve ever been so hot and so cold so many times in the same day.
I used to work in a bar, on hot summer days I’d just go in our walk in fridge and act like I was restocking stuff. Best feeling ever
I kinda hate that tho
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Our local supermarket is the ultimate air conditioner paradise on a 28°C+ day
Then your sweaty ass clothes feel like someone threw a wet sheet over you.
Have you ever hit a blunt in a walk in freezer after slaving away at a flat top and grill for 14 hours?
When the temperature change is so vast and sudden, it hits you in the chest and feels slightly harder to breathe for a moment.
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The magic gets lost a bit, when you have an AC in your office tbh.
Me and my wife call it “Hotel cold”
I live in a tropical country. It’s always hot and this year has been especially bad.
Well there is this new mall that is kind of underground and the entrance is kind of hide. In the park.
When you go in… DAMN! You are instantly cooler. Every time I go in it is it’s own reward.
It’s also a scent walk from my home but to too far, so you can really relax as you get there.
