Imagine you wake up excited for the day to come. You put on an incredible outfit, do your hair nice for the day ahead, and put on your favorite sneakers. You step out of the house satisfied and the first thing you encounter is the sun is beating down on you. The humidity ruins your hair, the pools of sweat forming ruins your outfit and leaves you with a terrible odor, and the pavement is so hot it melts your sneakers (which has happened before, just look it up). You think it cannot get any worse until you get in your car and the buckle on your seatbelt all but brands you with how hot it is.
As Texans, I feel as though we all agree enough is enough. I’m sure we all remember the summer of torture we just had. For those of you who left us behind and traveled somewhere nice and cool like Minnesota, we were above 100 F for three months straight. A person told their friend, who told their cousin, who told their dog, who told their owner, who told ME that one of their car’s wheels melted straight off onto the pavement. If that’s not enough, heat exhaustion alone can kill you. Ask any of the athletic trainers and they’ll tell you that the most frequent injury in the field house is heat stroke (probably). Our citizens, and all of the south, are tired of this heat.
“I mean it’s really not that serious,” Senior Yearbook Design Editor Melanie Ortega said. “On the really hot days I just sat inside my house, air conditioning exists you know.”
While this is certainly an opinion a person can have, let’s hear from someone a little more sensible.
“Summer is the worst thing in the world,” Junior Yearbook Staffer Kamali Oliver said. “I wish I could hibernate like a bear during winter, but instead during summer. I don’t even care about summer break anymore, I would do anything just so that it’s not over 100 degrees every summer.”
Now there’s someone who understands the true pain of a Texas summer.
For all of the fashionable Texans, summer is the worst of all. I mean, how could you possibly be stylish when all you want to do is find some place with proper air conditioning. Baggy jeans, sweaters, overalls, and layering are all styles that are popular among our age group. Sadly, these poor fashionable teenagers cannot keep up with the trends in this horrifying weather. They are instead forced to wear a brightly colored sundress, or even worse, a polo.
“I can’t take this anymore,”Senior Newspaper Staffer Asael said. “My dad made me wear this horrendous pink polo paired with blue board shorts and flip flops. I thought it couldn’t possibly be that bad until I left to the backyard and realized he was wearing the exact same outfit. So many pictures were taken, my life is basically ruined. I cannot wait for August.”
Unfortunately, August did not bring the solace these poor teenagers had hoped for. The month continued on with its record breaking temperatures, continuously ruining hour long makeup looks and destroying any hope of smelling nice.
“I spent 4.173 hours doing my hair the night before picture day,” Senior Newspaper staffer Christian Gonzales said. “It was a puffy destroyed mess by the time I took my picture, now I have to destroy all evidence of this photo. I don’t care if I never get into a football game again, this ID will not be seen by anyone.”
Sadly, not everyone prefers a season of cheer and kindness over fiery pain and misery. As an unbiased and fair journalist (and by command of the EICs), I have decided to hear the other side out and explain to all you kind readers why these opinions are wrong.
“Winter sucks, it dries my hands out,” Senior Opinion Editor Sarah Smith said. “Everything around you is dead, trees, dead, students spirits, dead, grass, dead.” Unfortunately, Smith doesn’t realize that trees and grass are interconnected so by claiming their both dead is redundant and shows a lack of reasons to hate winter. Also students’ spirits are usually at an all time high because who doesn’t love getting presents and a 2 week break. I also have a hand cream if Smith wants, and with that, I have successfully turned Smith into a Winter lover.
“This is slander,” Smith said. ” You will be hearing from my-” Now that’s enough of that.
While the other side’s opinion is completely valid (not), it is also not a very common opinion. When students around school were polled on which season was better, 99.98% claimed that winter was better (disclaimer: not actual poll results), putting Smith, and the other two winter haters that exist in the extremely miniscule 0.02%.
“I love winter more than anything,” Junior Newspaper staffer Isaac John said. “I may not celebrate Christmas or anything, but others’ happiness during the season rubs off on me so I guess that’s cool.” No one can truly hate winter, not with all the love and cheer floating throughout the air. Not even the Grinch can hate the happiest time of year.
