Happy Little Trees

I am freezing, and it’s summer in Houston. Why am I freezing? Because I sat outside for about ten minutes during lunch and enjoyed the 90 degree temp, and then went back to the office. Inside all buildings in Houston, Texas the temperature is about 62 degrees. Because in Houston, we like to waste energy, because it helps the economy. And the Galleria also supports it, so we buy sweaters more in the summer than in the winter. And the restaurants are somehow in on it, too, because millions of sweaters get left behind at restaurants, and then we have to buy new ones, so then they get a cutback from the Galleria.

Perhaps, if everyone in Houston opened up their doors on the hottest day of the year, we could bring down the temperature a few degrees by air-conditioning the outside. Then, we wouldn’t all have to hide from the heat all summer, and could enjoy sunny days without passing out.

I’m tired of shivering indoors. I bet there where whiners who whined about being hot while shopping or eating, and all retailers and restaurant owners and grocers got together and said, “We’ll show them! Let’s play freeze-out!” Oh, how cold it is to serve out the sentence for the sins of those before us! Somebody get me my emergency Fred Rogers’ cardigan! Won't you be my neighbor and fetch me a sweater?