Being Cold Makes Him Hot
(One winter’s day, I come home from classes and get in the residence tower’s elevator. Another student also gets in… wearing shorts and a t-shirt! Again, it’s winter. In Edmonton. There are snow and ice everywhere.)
Me: “Um… comfy?”
Student: *embarrassed but cheerful* “Uh, not really. So… somehow I got the weather report in Fahrenheit instead of Celsius without noticing it. I just saw the numbers this morning and thought, ‘Hey, it’s nice out,’ so…”
(Mid-twenties Celsius is a warm summer day. Mid-twenties Fahrenheit is below freezing.)
Me: “Oh.”
Student: “Then I got outside, but I didn’t have time to go back and change, so I’ve just spent all day like this.”
Me: “Oh, Jesus Christ. You must be frozen.”
Student: *still cheerful* “Yeah, and everyone’s like, ‘Wow! Look at that guy! He must be from Alaska!’ and it’s like, no, I’m just stupid.”
(He was so chipper and honest about it that if I’d been single, I’d have asked him out!)
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