I have to get this off my chest. It’s been bugging the snot out of me all day.<\/p>\n
I had to go to the office today because my power went out at home which means I had to fight the maddening crowds a few blocks from the Capitol. It’s worse today because of ya’all Hope and Change tourists gawking at the statues and taking pictures of each other pointing at stuff.<\/p>\n
Anyway, whenever I stopped at a street corner to wait for the light to change, perfect strangers would ask me “Cold enough for you?” I’ll bet I got asked that twenty times today.<\/p>\n
Look, if you’re standing face-to-face with me on a street corner in bone-chilling weather in the wind tunnel that is North Capitol Street and the only thing that pops into your mind to say is that question, just stare at me and keep your stupid yap shut.<\/p>\n
Even my workmates couldn’t resist asking me if it’s cold enough for me. Why? Do you really want to know if I could stand a few degrees colder? Or does the chance of a few moments of silence so terrify you that you’d say something that moronic just to fill the air with your voice?<\/p>\n
To answer the question: Yes, it’s cold enough for me and I can’t wait till the end of the month when I get go to the tropics, lay by the pool in the 95 degree heat in my Speedo with a stogie and a bucket of cuba libres. <\/p>\n
I wonder how many Panamanians will ask me if it’s hot enough for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"