Tomorrow morning, they say, it will be 40 degrees. Weather talk, it happens to me all the time, mainly because I am concerned with walking out of the house at 4:30 am in shorts and realizing that a more likely clothing choice would have been head-to-toe yack skin and snow boots. Of course, everyone knows that unless you are living your present life in Georgia but in past time and it is 1992, those kind of things aren’t worrisome. Weather talk generally comes about in three different ways, the most popular way is the old “We have nothing in common, therefore we have no relatable conversation traits. So warm outside, ey?” Older more responsible presence in your life makes up the next avenue where you typically find the daily forecast. If you have parents, and everyone does, most of the time they will fill you in on any changes in climate and if they don’t, you can bet your ass that when you speak to you Grandparents again (be it as your physical Ma and Paw as you know them now, or a more dense, higher elevated collection of matter without a sense of recollection) that they will inform you on it being hot, cold, raining, snowing or whatever.
It seems that everyone these days are concerned with what some people would consider extremely trivial subjects, politics, the economy, gas prices, boy bands etc. Everyone has a different opinion and everyone is well adept at screaming THEIR beliefs at you for having your own, it gets frustrating. My technique at first was the phrase “You know, if I had the option I would be cryogenically frozen until the election was over. That way all of this would be new to me and the only news I would hear would be factual history.” It worked for a brief period of time but after a while people just ignored the entire statement and viewed it as just a distraction to what they were saying at me in the first place. My new method is just to revisit the classic method of weather talk. Herein lies the third example of such a conversation, talking about the weather as a way to converse with ease and agree on a fundamental property of this planet that you can feel as fact. If you respond to someone who has just spent thirty breathless minutes telling you why Sara Palin is a cunt with, “It is such a nice day outside today, you know it is suppose to be 40 degrees in the morning” there is nothing to disagree with, unless you are talking to a madman, and they cannot reasonable fault you for not engaging in a bottomless pit of boring political conversation. We can also say that unless you owned Wachovia or are personally running for office the weather effects your life on a daily basis, where as all those other things, politics, the economy, gas prices and boy bands are not even real. There are plenty of people that would argue all of this with me, it is all a matter of opinion, so in my opinion it is more interesting (although to some, equally useless) to internalize the idea of a universe that has a beginning and an end but no singularity, this universe allows man to exist due only to elements that cannot bind, pretty fascinating stuff. Until, of course, someone, somewhere understands quantum mechanics to a degree that would allow us as human beings to exist on anything other than the planet earth, there will be politics and weather talk.
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