It's a hot, sticky summer day - way too hot to think. Why even try? The thinking has all been done for you, so peruse the following options, pick one that appeals, and "chillax" - relief is a list away!
- Go to an over-airconditioned theater and watch the same movie three times in a row.
- Buy a kiddie wading pool, fill it with water, put on the Beach Boys, and have a pool party.
- Start a water balloon (or water gun) fight.
- See if your car's hood really does get hot enough to fry an egg.
- Practice your goofiest dives at the local swimming pool.
- Hunt down an ice cream truck - pursue one by car if necessary.
- Buy slurpees and deliberately give yourself brain-freeze.
- Run through a hose (or sprinkler) - either your own, or stalk a landscaping crew.
- Jump in a pond, lake, ocean, or any other naturally occuring body of water.
- Visit the local fire station and offer to field check their hoses for free.
- Wade in a stream or along the edge of a river.
- Go to a water park.
- Hang out in the frozen foods section of a grocery store.
- Make fruit-cicles by freezing fruit juice in ice cube trays.
- Make homemade ice cream.
- Sell lemonade or iced team to people who are as wretchedly hot as yourself. Make enough money to fly to Alaska.
- Play "Beau Geste" with your friends, pretending you are lost and dying in the desert. Take turns sacrificing your lives for each other.
- Put on a tape of the ocean, sit back in a lounge chair, and pretend you're at the beach or on a cruise. To heighten the realism, manipulate a member of your family into bringing you chilled drinks on a tray.
- Put your teeshirt in the freezer before putting it on.
- Shove ice down the back of someone's shirt. Hope that they will return the favor.
- Fill your birdbaths to the brim - if you're hot, imagine how it must feel to have feathers.
- Give your pet a bath - you're going to get wet anyway, so why not do it on a hot day?
- Fetch that snowball you froze last winter out of the freezer, top with chocolate syrup, and eat.
- Crunch on ice chips.
- Find an electric fan and point it directly at your face.
- Continually agitate your wind chimes so that it sounds like a windy day.
- Think about that dud of a boyfriend/girlfriend you almost married; sure to give you chills.
- Go fishing. Try to fall in the water as often as possible.
- Go paddleboating, canoeing, innertubing, or rafting in a convenient body of water.
- Read a Jack London book - you'll be grateful to be somewhere warm when you're done.
- Sit in your car for five minutes, then climb out: guaranteed to make the outside air temperature feel positively temperate!
- Frolick in a public fountain.
- Find an excuse to hang out at the (air conditioned) public library for a while.
- Freeze your food before eating it. (Tip: Works well with fruit, sandwiches and cookies, not so well for mac and cheese.)
- Stand in front of the refrigerator with your forehead pressed against the door.
- Do a rain dance.
- Three words: root. beer. float.
- Sit under a shady tree and read a good book.
- Ride your bike downhill to generate a breeze.
- Get in the car, turn on the air conditioning, and drive north.
