This ain’t no Miami. This ain’t no Phoenix.
This is Chicago. It’s the middle of winter
This ain’t no fooling around.

Wednesday was December 15, The middle of the month. Christmas is only ten days away. The start of the new year is just a week later. It’s winter. That means sweaters, hats and heavy jackets.

But, it seems that every year or so we have a weather episode like we did yesterday. Winter turns into spring for a day. It’s a big tease. Maybe it’s global warming? Hell, it’s definitely global warming but that’s a discussion for another time. Anyway, when we have a sixty-degree day like we did yesterday, what do we see? People wearing….SHORTS!!

I get it if you’re coming out of a yoga class or leaving a workout at the gym. I get it if you’ve been playing tennis. I get it if you’ve been going for a run/walk or a bike ride along the lakefront. But if you’re getting a haircut or going to a coffee shop are shorts proper attire in the winter?

Yesterday morning, I decided to go get some coffee and do some reading. I jumped on the local bus and before I even reached my seat I noticed three people wearing shorts. Oh boy, I thought…it’s going to be one of those days.

I reached the grocery store and as I went to get my drink, I noticed four more people wearing shorts. Sigh! It didn’t stop on my walk back to the bus for the ride home. Seven more shorts-wearing folks. Doing the math, that’s fourteen people that thought it was summer in December.

C’MON PEOPLE!!!

The good news is it looks to be only a one-day event. It’s an outlier. Tomorrow it will be winterish again and we can get back to a somewhat normal life again.

Look, I know that once again this diatribe comes off as another old man yelling at the clouds moment. Okay…okay…I give up. Wear whatever the Hell you want. However, if you’re wearing shorts in December, keep off my lawn.

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