In Cold Weather

Watched It's Complicated last night. I'm not proud of the choice. But Meredith's friend's story got me through the movie. Her friend, you see, went to see the movie about divorcee parents having an affair with her divorced mother. And ran into her dad and stepmom at the same movie.

Afterward, we were all craving food and headed over Lizzie's for ice cream. Well, all except Alison who kept talking about how cold it was and how she just came back from "70 degree weather" on the "West coast" and this "isn't normal." It all reminded me of this picture:

Fleece and hoodie vs. giant parka

And this conversation I had with a mom the other night, at midnight, because the woman has no sense of time. Or cold. The woman is coming from Taiwan to Boston with her daughter:

Stranger's Mother: Is it cold there?

Moi: (again remembering the picture) It's not bad right now, but it will be in the teens and twenties Farehnheit when you arrive.

Stranger's Mother: Well, we brought hats and scarves.

Moi: (trying to roll my eyes but eye lids were too heavy with fatigue-)

Stranger's Mother: Teens and twenties... is that like five, ten degrees Celsius? That's not so bad, right?

Moi: Um, no. It's below zero Celsius.

Stranger's Mother: Oh.