NOW THAT WE’RE seeing the inevitable end of our annual week or two of sunny weather (for a few weeks at least), it’s easy to feel miserable about the rain again. So for that reason, let’s look at the worst things about summer so we don’t have to feel so bad about the rain.
1. When it’s hot out buses at rush hour are torture
None of that empty bus carry on that this photo depicts. No way. You’re going to probably spend most of your journeys home from work with your face in the armpit of a stranger on a hot day. Every slight jolt of the bus will frustrate you and there will always be one individual who manages to overpower the entire bus with the smell from their body. It’s almost impressive in a way. But still completely disgusting.
2. Moths
When it’s hot, it’s hard to be comfortable without opening a window. It’s impossible to open a window without surrendering your room to a small colony of moths. Let’s just hope they aren’t the terrifying big ones.
3. It’s really hard to close doors
Doors swell up in the heat. This is just really annoying, especially if you’re trying to creep around the house at night time for a snack when everyone’s asleep. Doors are then more likely to be left open, giving moths free reign of the house.
4. Wasps
If we didn’t have hot weather, we wouldn’t have to deal with wasps. Eating outside in summer is great in theory, but in reality wasps are waiting to ruin everything on you.
5. Allergies/hayfever
Too much pollen in summer. If you don’t have allergies, you probably have to listen to friends or family members sneeze 17 times in a row. That’s not fun. Summer’s not that fun.
6. Frizzy hair
You spend ages doing your hair just to walk out into humid air and look like that.
7. Beaches are packed
You naturally want to go and enjoy a beach when the weather’s nice and you have two options: try find somewhere to lie surrounded by narky parents screaming at their kids and teenagers blaring music off speakers or alternatively you can go swim in the freezing cold sea that children have been urinating in all day.
8. Putting sun cream on all day is so much effort
How do people in hot countries live like this all year round?
9. Nobody ever has a summer wardrobe prepared on time
Three days ago we were buying rain gear. Now it’s time for last year’s shorts and a random bikini top out your back garden.
10. Sleeping is impossible
Let’s not even bring up the terrors of trying to sleep with sun burn.
11. Good weather is used as an excuse for all kinds of ridiculous behaviour
Daytime drinking can begin as early as 11am for some people.
12. Hangovers are unbearable
That cup of tea that fixes everything on a normal day can do extreme damage to you on hot day when you’re hungover. There’s nowhere to hide. Takeaways are too heavy to eat and taste significantly worse when it’s sunny out.
13. Feeling like you have to make the most of every moment that it’s sunny
Clear skies are so rare. It’s hard to sit inside watching Netflix when you know you potentially could not see the sky look like that again for a year.
But at the same time, let’s be real. No matter how irritating wasps are and how hard it is to close a door when you’re leaving a room, hot weather will still always be better than windy rain when you need to go outdoors.
