Over the years, I’d noticed a divide between folks in warmer climes and folks in colder ones.

When folks in say, Michigan or Canada, were experiencing bitter, bitter cold, they didn’t appreciate folks in say, Florida, pointing out how much warmer they were.

In fact, northerners would get incensed when Floridians complained about a cold snap and that they needed a jacket to protect them from 65° weather.

Now that I’ve moved from the frigid wastelands to sunny Florida, I’m trying to behave myself, or at least trying to delay the evidence that I can be a jerk.

I’m trying to not roll my eyes when my new neighbors complain about the “cold”.

And when I’m on a Zoom chat and northerners are complaining about the gasoline freezing in their gas tanks, I keep my mouth shut about my own weather reports…

…Unless some unnamed northerner starts giving me sh1t because my antifreeze hasn’t frozen. As if that’s my fault! In that case, I delivered a heartbreaking tale of woe because it got so cold that I had to replace my shorts with pants for the first time since I got here.

There was probably a better response, but this was funnier.