you know, weather is really something that brings people together. when its 95 degrees and humid, who cares what your skin looks like? all people want is to get cool. and if that means running through a fire hydrant spray with someone you don't know, so be it.
same thing with cold weather. if its negative 20 degrees and the guy next to you is freezing, you're going to give them your spare heat pack. and then you will end up chatting with him for a while.
extreme weather brings out not only our need to survive, but our need to help others survive. i think that's because its really the only bit of uncontrollable nature we have left, so we get a glimpse of the way we acted a thousand years ago.
at least that's my experience.
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i think it's not just the only real bit of nature we have left, i also think its empathy, and natural instinct, from long ago, to help your people survive so your race can survive, for if you did not help others, and they not you, we would not survive. and nowadays, the helping is translated into running through fire hydrant spray with a fellow stranger.
i agree with lola (i remembered this time). death from freezing or burning is most likely one of the top five things that reveal humanity before corruption and technology eliminated the more immediate caring that kept life living.
u ran thru a fire hydrant?? whoo!!!
no i didnt. i just saw some other people doing it and i really wanted to and regretted not doing it. i will do it next time, tho.
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