• Followupquestion@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Tell me you live somewhere temperate without telling me where you live. Have you been to much of the US in the winter?

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      6 months ago

      I agree with you and I live in Florida. I’d rather deal with the drive thru for the same reasons you listed.

      Also, I won’t have to deal with trying to buckle a 2 & 4 year-old out of and back into their car seats, especially when it’s raining and 95*F. The 4 year old has ASD and refuses to be helped into the car so they throw a tantrum in the rain, and the 2 year old loses their mind just because.

      There are things that people who don’t have/want kids can’t understand, and it’s an argument not worth having.

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        6 months ago

        You’ve lived in Alaska for multiple winters and you aren’t worried about the problem with exposing small children to extreme cold?

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          You should see how the Finnish treat their babies. Things like frostbite and frostnip don’t happen in the few seconds it takes to get from a car to a door. Yes, with small children, those 10 or 20 seconds might turn into 60, but they will be fine.

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          6 months ago

          A low temperature in Alaska will affect you MUCH differently than low temperatures in say, BC which is much more humid and cuts into my bones at -1 where in Alaska/Yukon I’ve handled -34 and I’m mostly struggling to breath.

          As long as it’s a quick jaunt into a heated facility, it should be fine with some moderate layers.

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            6 months ago

            These days I live in Washington, not quite as cold as BC but mostly similar. Previously, I have lived in the Northeast of the US and the Northeast of Japan, which are both humid and quite cold and windy in the winter.

            I know winter.

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        I’m happy for you? You’re very tough. I wouldn’t do that shit if you paid me ten million and I definitely wouldn’t make a ten year old do it.

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          6 months ago

          People do it for living. Just wear warm clothes. Well, that warm clothes might be an overkill, just wear regular warm clothes. As I said it’s not even Yakutia.

          I definitely wouldn’t make a ten year old do it

          10 years olds, you know, need to go to school. And they do*. I did when I was 10. Everyone did.

          *unless it’s below -25 outside