Every so often I forget that my girlfriend and I are from two really odd sites and upbringings, and I’m shocked when my buddy and I don’t have the same past life experiences; Because she grew up in the middle of Florida, while I originate from the northern midwest, my buddy and I definitely don’t have several overlapping details in our childhoods.
What’s more, she grew up in a pretty well to do family, while I come from a venue of poverty and substance abuse, so the discrepancies cover a wide range of topics.
One of the funniest things to me is her complete lack of expertise about surviving winter. He’s lived most of her life in tropical temperatures, with continual heat and high humidity year round! Meanwhile, I’m accustomed to at least 6 months of brutal winter, with temperatures below zero degrees and nasty snowfall on a weekly basis. Seeing him trying to deal with the low temperatures and weather events back condo is such a hoot! She hardly knows anything about running a heater, heating up a car before driving it, or official snow gear. Another thing she obviously didn’t know about was the threat of pipes bursting if the indoor air temperature dips too low! My pal and I found that one out the hard way, when my buddy and I left for a long weekend and came condo to mediocre flooding in the basement. Apparently she had turned the heating system off entirely, rather than maintaining a low temperature of 55 degrees. It was my fault, really; should have realized that she didn’t know the golden rule of critical temperature repair in winter.