The country has been affected by a heat wave over the past week. I got in my car the other day and the inside temperature was 105 degrees. With great heat seems to come great hotheads. People are grumpy, and some are drawn to do desperate acts. An adult bookstore was robbed on that 105 degree day by a fellow who lunged over the counter and allegedly bit the store clerk. Outside Philadelphia, two men drag raced their cars and one crashed into a mother and her children crossing the street, killing them.
It seems strange that people–seemingly men in particular–get hotter under the collar when it’s hot outside. Mentally they seem to just boil over into violence. In the case of the adult store robbery, I’m wondering why, if the place was air-conditioned, the robber just didn’t stand back, cool off and then grab a video and duck out the door: the clerk certainly didn’t taste all that good when the burglar bit him. Speculating on the matter, the adult video industry is having problems as it is with the availability of naughty material on the web, so did the robber really think there would be that much cash in the till?
I work in a customer service environment, so I have heard complaints all week about how rudely people are treating the operators. No matter how lousy I feel, I never take it out on a voice on the phone. Grab a sip of water and take a moment to cool your jets before doing anything in this awful weather. Don’t drag race if your car has no air conditioning, or if somebody called you out to test your manhood. Don’t rob some poor schmoe in a porn emporium so you can buy a slushy. It always cools down again: in fact, it’s supposed to get better shortly around here.
I’d rather drink a gallon of water than shed a drop of sweat in anger.
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