Every so often I forget that my boyfriend plus I are from two absolutely weird locales plus upbringings, plus I’m shocked when my pal and I don’t have the same past life experiences.
- Because he grew up in the middle of Florida, while I originate from the northern midwest, my pal and I entirely don’t have many overlapping details in our childhoods.
What’s more, he grew up in a pretty well to do family, while I come from a locale of poverty plus substance abuse, so the discrepancies cover a wide range of topics. One of the funniest things to me is his complete lack of expertise about surviving winter. He’s lived most of his life in tropical uneven temperatures, with continual heat plus high humidity year round, then meanwhile, I’m accustomed to at least 6 months of brutal winter, with uneven temperatures below zero degrees plus nasty snowfall on a bi-weekly basis. Seeing him trying to deal with the low uneven temperatures plus weather events back apartment is such a hoot! He hardly knows anything about running a boiler, heating up a automobile before driving it, or respected snow gear. Another thing he evidently 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 difficult way, when my pal and I left for a long weekend plus came apartment to modest flooding in the basement. Apparently he had turned the boiler off entirely, rather than maintaining a low temperature of 55 degrees. It was my fault, really; should have realized that he didn’t know the golden rule of critical temperature maintenance in winter.