I love summer! Sun staying up till 10 at night, thunderstorms, WARMTH. Winter is cold and slippery and can suck it.

-steps outside-

-face melts onto the ground-

Love summer, hate winter. Cold makes me hurt. When I get so cold that my bones feel it, not good.

I enjoy being able to go outside without 12 bazillion layers of clothing and still feeling frozen. :)

Sweat, being sticky, sweat, have to work anyway, sweat, room feels like a frigging sauna, sweat, laptop being all hot and loud, sweat, can't sleep at night, sweat, stinking people in the tram and I have to stay under their armpit because I'm so small ...oh did I mention ALL THE SWEAT

I hate winter - I'm hypothyroid - which one of the symptoms of is literally cold intolerance. Summer means being comfortably warm, fields full of lightning bugs and warm drizzly afternoons. Oh, and traipsing around barefoot is always a bonus.

I really like summer, but the things I really hate about are the heat, sweating like a pig, my asshole of a neighbor who feels the need to cut his grass every. single. day. Everyday at dinnertime, he breaks out his lawnmower. And when he isn't using his lawnmower, he is using the weed whacker. Meanwhile, we're trying to eat dinner in some peace.

But the worst are the kids in my neighborhood. They live a few houses down from me and they play in the street all day long while their parents sit in their drive ways and get drunk. To make is worse, the kids scream bloody murder for hours on end. You would think someone is out there killing them, but no. They just sit in middle of the street and scream like banshees all day long. We can still hear them when our windows are closed and the AC is on.

I was just saying this to my mother...

I hate summer because people are active, walking around and riding their bikes and shit. GET OFF THE ROADS OH MY GOD I WILL RUN YOU ALL OVER!!! Now I'm always looking more times than usual when backing up because you never know when some 8 year old is going to streak behind your car.

Also, the kids are out of school. I work at Wal Mart okay, the kids now attend summer day care at Wally World. So everyday I get to hear them shrieking and running around unattended and throwing random objects just because they can. Tying them up and leaving them in the laundry hampers would get me fired and possibly landed in jail so I just deal with it.

Oh, and the weather is warm enough for the Jehovah Witnesses to come to my door EVERY MORNING to murder trees by handing me pamphlets that I just use for litter in my guinea pigs cage. Look, you can have your beliefs whatever, STOP SHOVING THEM DOWN MY FREAKING THROAT BECAUSE I DO NOT CARE! When I say go away, GO AWAY AND DON'T COME BACK. I didn't change my mind in the last 24 hours I promise. I'm going to start leaving my guard dog tethered in the front yard I swear to god. GET PAST HER AND I MIGHT LISTEN TO YOU

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Also tis the season for girls to look like the prostitutes on Platte Avenue and wear shorts that let it all hang out. Thank you, I know what's under those clothes I have my own sets, keep it covered and look like ladies. Seductive doesn't mean showing everything, keep it classy. If you want to show it all off, become a stripper and leave it at the club. Thank you.

You just summarized summer. You get a cookie. :D

Total opposite for me. I melt in summer. Can dress for cold, not for heat :|

Bonus points if you can write a haiku about summer/sweat xD

At least you have an actual reason to hate winter. xD Where I live it's rain ALL YEAR EXCEPT SUMMER. So it sucks.

I can top that for asshole neighbors. EVERY DAY from 7am til some time in the afternoon they feel the need to be doing obnoxiously loud things like building things 'n cuttin' grass, 'n using log splitters. Bleh. I'M TRYING TO ENJOY MY DAY OKAY.

You do however win with the screaming kids. Uhg. I'm lucky I live near the University, so we don't really have that many, other than the ones playing ball in the field next to the house. Not so bad since it's only a few hours once in awhile.

I'm going to send you two things for your pain, because that made me cry on the inside. And They'd just break the hampers if you tried that anyway :| The preachy types are.. uhg. Lucky for me, my dog is scary enough that I threatened to let my dog get at them; they never returned. BELIEVE WHAT YOU WANT BUT I DON'T CARE ABOUT IT. NO ONE DOES. WE DON'T NEED YOU PREACHING AT US AT SOME HOUR IN THE MORNING. That is all.

Apparently they think it's okay to do that. YES IT IS SUMMER, YES IT IS HOT, BUT YOU DON'T NEED TO SHOW IT ALL.

It takes every ounce of self control not to flip out on my neighbors. I can understand wanting to take care of your yard. That's fine. But there's no need to cut the grass every single day starting on the first day of spring to mid October. And esp during dinnertime.

And those kids. I think it's great the kids are outside playing rather than playing video games, but there's no need to scream bloody murder like they do. And they shouldn't be in the street. That's jut dangerous.

Taking care of your yard, sure, But I agree, there's no need to every day, that's wasting time and gas as well as just being annoying.

The kids SHOULD be outside 'n all, but they don't need to be constantly screaming, as for safety go play in a park or something, like normal kids.

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Even have the kids play in one of the back yards. And do something about the screaming. They need to put the glass of wine down and be responsible for their kids. They are also the type of parents that drive the HUGE SUVs and glare at me in my tiny civic when I'm at the stop sign, even though their vehicle takes up most of the street.

Omg I thought I was the only one who hated summer.

everything about summer just ticks me off. Bugs - my cat will sit and stare at the things. He doesn't even kill them. just friken lets them go about there business. Damn kids who just got there licence trying to be dope ass and revving up there vehicles when they pass people - just a bit ago i was walking and got to see some teenagers chasing a coyote through town with their truck. The heat! if i get to hot i get grumpy as ever. so I'm pretty much am forced to wear short shorts and tank tops and dresses if i want to stay cooled of a bit. id much rather be wearing sweats and a big cumpfy sweater that I can get lost in.

I love summer! The only part I really don't like is the bugs and the resulting bug bites. :x And sun burns if those occur.

In the cooler days, I like to leave my bedroom window open for some nice fresh air, but my neighbor's stupid fucking cat keeps sitting under the window and howling at my cats, so I can't. And I've talked to my neighbor about this, politely, and she insists it's not her cat. So I'm going to get a squirt gun and fill it with a mixture of water and blue food coloring. Then the next time I talk to her, I'll just casually ask if she wondered why her damn cat turned blue. Problem solved.

I also hate the fact that I tend to turn into a human tomato when I'm outside for any length of time in the sun, no matter that I've basically bought stock in sunscreen and marinated myself in it before I went out.

Then of course there's the bugs, especially the mosquitos. Although this year, a family of wonderfully murderous little flycatchers has taken up residence in our yard, so the mass-mosquitocide every day helps.

Oh. My God. The fucking Jehovah's Witnesses. I understand that you have your beliefs, that's totally fine. And I understand that you have to profess those beliefs to a certain quota each month or whatever. Marginally fine, as that's your beliefs. But when I tell them, politely, that I'm Catholic and very happy with my church and my beliefs, I expect you to leave me the fuck alone because I am not going to change my ways!!

Bugs and sweat. Those are the worst ones for me. I was going to say "heat in general" but I thought it might be redundant.

Longer daylight hours are the best. I love it still being light out at 10pm. And not having to pay for a massive heating bill. And having less vitamin D deficiency.

The down sides are pretty shit though. More insects, more people outside, sunburn + skin cancer risk, fukken 25+ C temps, no AC except in some shops, etc. I'd probably be dead if I lived in a continental climate during summer.

Speaking of Jehovah's Witnesses... wasn't aware that was a summer thing, but they did call around recently! My idiot housemate actually engaged them in conversation, so now they're harassing her hahaha.

Like: thunderstorms!, vegetable garden and planting and growing, grilling said veggies and steak and chicken, change of wardrobe

Dislike: omg yes like someone else said - I tend to get the hard core cyclists WHO ARE RIDING OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAMN ROAD basically riding around like they think they are driving a car or just like 4 feet away from the sidewalk hanging out there. On a busy road, where cars are parked on one side or the other. And the roads are busy. For real, I am going to start beeping at these people. And the cyclists on their special laid back style bikes yelling at people to get out of their way on the bike trail. !@#$

anyways - also, mosquitoes, poison ivy, wasps and hornets, neighbors cutting their grass at night or right after it rained (they don't make sense).

And also - I have always went to school and now work in a place that BLASTS their air conditioner. I hate it. It drives me crazy. I get sick when I have to go home and its like 90+ degrees outside and my car has been smoldering all day. I should not have to wear sweaters (and even pants in some cases) during the summer time inside.

And finally fireworks - when my neighbors are being idiots and setting them off every night during summer. My dog has panic attacks. And how do I know if there are really gun shots going off somewhere and/or something is wrong? With the fireworks going off and the police gun range a mile up my road I can not tell if there's like a drive by going on somewhere.

aw thank you ^_^ i put it in my gallery haha

Oh my gosh. Kids do that here too. Here I am walking somewhere, and they decide to try to 'act cool.' How tiny do their brains need to be for them to think it's anything but annoying. The heat is terrible, which is why I'm glad it usually rains quite a bit here. I love my summer clothes 'n all, but I wear them in winter when it's NOT melting hot ( plus I cant wear sweaters n' scarves ): )

Silly bugs. They really are terrible. I don't think they have ANY purpose other than to annoy us.

My cat scares the others away, and I live on the second floor, so my window gets to stay open. Blue water is brilliant! I'm sure ANYONE would question why their cat is suddenly blue... I'd hope.

I feel bad for you with that. I never burn. xD The bugs do always suck though. All the bites and buzzing around...

Maybe so, but I think it's the things we ALL agree on, even if we enjoy summer overall.

Where I used to live, it was sunny or at least daylight from 4am to 1-2am ish in the summer. Now it's a pretty normal day, balanced with night, all year round. Maybe an hour or two difference at the very most.

THE HEAAATTTT. Oh man, does +25C ever suck. I don't get how people can enjoy it or are okay with that being NORMAL. Just no. no, no, no. Coastal Climates are the only thing saving me.

Who actually talks to them? That ends up wasting your own time more so than anything. Unless that is, you're doing so to terrorize them so they stop knocking on your door.

Thunderstorms and barbeque are great, but the the former doesn't happen too much here. ): Cyclists aren't so bad here. A lot of people ride bikes, but they're not being assholes in the middle of the road or path.

LOL. I have NEVER understood why people bother to RIGHT after it rains. LET THE GRASS DRY PEOPLE.

I think I would get sick from that. Not the cold, but the shock from going from a freezing building to a melting.. well everything else.

Fireworks... are again, something not too bad here. People usually don't fire them off unless there's an actual occassion, or it's a city planned event. Armed violence ALSO isn't an issue that much here (Yeah, this place is pretty uneventful xD) nor is there a shooting range near by so noise is usually just drunkards and normal city sounds.

Summer is usually my favorite season because I associate it with swimming, trips to theme parks, and ice cream haha. But then I remember the fact that every bug in existence seems to come out and it makes me hate it.