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20 Thoughts Every Southerner Has During The Hell That Is Summer In The South

The humidity threatens to suffocate you and you're fairly certain that this may in fact be hell.

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Growing up in the South I am no stranger to scorching heat that threatens to take me out each summer. Everyone knows that you're risking your life from the moment you get down from the car to walk into the store. The likelihood of the soles of your shoes melting is very possible and it's like moving through molasses. The humidity threatens to suffocate you and you're fairly certain that this may, in fact, be hell.

Here are 20 thoughts that every Southerner has had during the hell known as summer in the South.

1. I am pretty sure all of the makeup on my face is melting off!

2. Is this hell?

3. When a friend who isn't from the South is excited for their first summer here:

4. Living here is like constantly trying to find a way to live long enough to get to some A/C:

5. After the walk from the car to the store:

6. I'm pretty sure the devil is responsible for the 100 degree weather

7. The only thing you need every time you leave the house:

8. The first thing you do when you get home from anywhere:

9. Everyday, all day:

10. Yep:

11. When you try to convince your parents to move somewhere else:

12. Ladies, we've all thought this:

13. When you are fairly certain that the humidity is trying to suffocate you:

14. What we have to do to our hair when summer starts:

15. So that we don't look like this:

16. I have resigned myself to my fate to always look like this:

17. What you say when people want to know why we only go out at night:

18. When friends from other places are excited for September because of cooler weather:

19. How we feel when the temperature finally drops to the 80's:

20. But the reality is...

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