driving home last night, the car temperature said 86 degrees...for some areas that is the high for the day, but unfortunately, that was the low for us last night around
midnight. no breeze, just thick humid, too hot to breathe, sticky air. i met some friends last night and we attempted to sit outside and enjoy a few drinks while we sat around and chatted. well after a while, maybe it was a combination of the extreme
heat and alcohol, but we just couldn't take it anymore.
we were all glowing with sweat, our hair was sticking to our heads and we were dripping wet. the heat won and slowly we all decided it was time to get into our air conditioned cars and head home to our cool air conditioned houses. even though we wanted to continue our conversations, we just couldn't stand it any longer.the heat can make you feel ill, and so i am immensely thankful to willis carrier, the father of modern day large scale a/c. but how in the world did people live down here in the south ( Texas is south central actually) without air conditioning?? i just can't fathom that. just fans to move the heat filled air around their sweaty bodies all day long? omg that had to be simply miserable. especially in buildings, where you couldn't possibly feel the outside air in the center offices. and just when you looked forward to the cooler evening breezes, you get a night, like last night, that just sucks the life out of you with stifling hot humid air. and what the heck was living down here like in the 1700-1800's?? long dresses, petticoats, heavy fabrics. how did they manage to live in the heat?? i can't even think about it without feeling heat stroke-ish!! i will never complain about how cold the a/c is ever again, i will don my fleece jacket and be ever so grateful to mr. carrier for being so inventive in 1902, and probably so hot in all the previous years, for cooling us all!! 
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