Monday, November 22, 2010

Brittany says...

So as most of you know, Minnesota is FU FU FREEZING.

The temperatures get down well below zero in the middle of winter.

The newscaster usually give two temperatures.

For as long as I can remember I thought it was the ACTUAL temperature, and the WIND SHIELD!

YES!

Wind Shield!

I thought it was the temperature you felt when you got into your car!

bahahaha!

I called it that all the time, and NO ONE ever corrected me!

The first time I seen it written out as WIND CHILL, it was a complete and total "DUH!" moment Obviously that makes a lot more sense!

So today when I got into the vehical after chipping away ice from the wind shield I had to chuckle at my past word mixup! :) But let me tell you, it really did feel like -10 below WIND SHIELD!

19 comments:

Rebekah said...

Haha!! I love this! That is too funny!

Hannah said...

How Cute! Negative degrees though, not cute. At all. I bitched and moaned after the game on Saturday because it was in the 50s. I cannot believe I survived the midwest for 12 years. 12 horrible years.

Copyboy said...

Man, I love it where you live...except the cold part. We in NYC are babies if the temp dips below 20.

Jumble Mash said...

Brittany, that's just hilarious. I hate that you have snow and ice, but I LOVED this story.

Until my BFF was 16 and I finally corrected her, she always thought that a FLY SWATTER was called Flice Water. She asked me one day why it was called a Flice Water and after I stopped laughing, I corrected her.

Cecily said...

LOL, that's awesome. "Wind Shield" or "Wind Chill," 10 below is too dang cold either way! :)

Nicole said...

hey I always thought it was is-land (pronounced like 2 words...)... it's all good :)

Anonymous said...

That is so funny! I love it. :)

The Invisible Seductress said...

Laughing WITH you not AT you!!! I remember going to the mountains for the first time with a bunch of girls and seeing a sign that said: Bush Hogs ahead... We looked for them wild pigs for hours. Someone in town had to tell us it was not an animal it was tractor equipment....

We were like, uh, yes we did see tractors...

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Sara Strand said...

Tell me- it's freezing in Superior. I hate winter.

jennykate77 said...

LOL! I so used to think the same thing!! For reals. I think I was in college when I realized what they were really saying. I don't think I had paid much attention before then. Wind chill. Duh! Well, we haven't had any really cold WIND CHILLS or WIND SHIELDS yet here in Oklahoma, but they're in the forecast for this week! Our Thanksgiving day is going to be the coldest it's been so far this fall. I'm kind of looking forward to it! :)

Hope you're having a great day!!♥

*D* said...

ohh i am so not ready for temps like that! hope you're keeping warm!

Anonymous said...

Yes...I live on the Western Shores of that wonderful body of water called Lake MI...the coldness like to sing and the snows like to yoddle but when those nasty winds from North invade I have only one thing to say...only 6 more months till Spring :-)

Eschelle Westwood Mumfection said...

its -10 with wind chill up here i know how you feel :(

Melanie said...

LOL..wind shield!! That is too funny!!!

Iris Flavia said...

Too funny :-)
Apart from the cold, that is.
We´re predicted snow, too - in November!!! Usually not happens before January, bu-huuu.

becca said...

ha ha!
I'm glad you told this funny story, Brittany.
funny!

Rachel said...

So I guess you don't want to hear that it's currently 75 degrees here in Texas, right??

:)
Rachel

Jillian said...

way way way tooo cold for me. Happy Thanksgiving

Kari said...

You're not the only one. When I was younger I thought the same thing, because here in Colorado - we get two temperatures too. So I asked me dad how they got the temperature off the wind sheiled. Mind you, I was in high school :o)