No A/C in the Summer of ‘98
The Summer of 98 was one of the best periods of my entire life, then anyone who knows myself and others has heard myself and others tell tales about it time & time again, to the point they believe the stories plus I do, it seems, but i just call it “that summer” because it’s the only one I ever talk about! I was a absolutely different man back then, & even though I had an amazing time I would never want to try & relive it.
It was a different time & place, you believe what I mean? I was young & immortal, & didn’t mind driving cross country with no a/c in the car… These nights I won’t even drive to work if the vehicle A/C isn’t fully charged, right? No a/c means I’ll call the boss & say I’m unable to work that day, & yet back then I happily drove 780 miles in the brutal summer time heat.
This is precisely why I said I would never try to relive that experience, because once I did try to do just that, only in a vehicle with working a/c. It turns out that the A/C ruined the experience, made it believe 100% different, so I quit pretty early & went back home, however when I believe deeply about it, & I often do, I realize that I’m just using the a/c as an excuse. In reality cooling has nothing to do with it, it’s just that the summer time of 98 achieved such mythical status in my mind no reality could ever live up to it.