Subject: What is the name of Job's wife? |
Bible Note: Hank Actually there is a lot of good in Florida it just isn't my kind of place. It is real nice place to be when the north is up to it's eyes in snow but there is a down side to all of that. You live the same in summer in Florida as most do up north in the winter. In the summer it is so hot and humid that you don’t go out, everyone stays indoors. In the fall and spring people stick their heads out and open their house. In the winter since your use to warmer weather anything under 70 and your cold, so again you stay in. In the winter tourist that think they are doing us a favor, come here and act just that way. I can clearly understand other countries perception of American tourists, truly we are ugly Americans. The winter tourist think you should worship the ground they walk on, they are very obnoxious, very demanding and very very cheap. All they do for us is prices go up, traffic backs up and you contend with 80 year old tourist sight seeing as 8:00 AM on the interstate as your trying to get to work. It is not a pretty sight. A funny story many of the restaurants have bowls of after dinner mints out the year round until the snowbirds (Florida's term for winter tourist) come. Then they put them away until they leave. I saw one snowbird in one restaurant fill her purse with mints by picking the bowl up and dumping them into her purse. You will never believe how endearing that is. Also there is a class distinction here that is more prevalent here than any other place I have ever been. Florida seems to have the very poor, which are also very poorly educated and the very rich which also seem to be poorly educated. The rich live in walled communities and poor everywhere else. The contrast is alarming and I wonder if someday this may erupt into civil chaos. After all is said is done Florida in my opinion was never meant to have a population the size it has. Its infrastructure is just too fragile to support this many people. Right now most of the problem is water either to much flooding or to little running out. I’m a person that loves the changing seasons, I like fall and smell of burning leaves and apple cider. I enjoyed the bite of winter and skiing and even having cabin fever waiting for spring. I loved spring with all it’s newness and freshness. I also looked forward to summer and everything it had to offer. But of all of these summer was my least favorite so you can see why I’m not happy trapped in the land of summer. My wife tells me I would probably freeze to death if I ever moved north and she is probably right. As a joke I brought my down coat that I used to wear up north in the winter to Florida. When the temperature gets into the forties I dig it out and shiver worst than I ever did when it was –10 below up north. They say your blood thins out once you get down here and I suspect they are right. EdB |