The phone call back east to gloat about our weather
It’s finally autumn, that wonderful season when we Tucsonans, traumatized by summer, cautiously tiptoe out into the chilly mornings, like Munchkins, wary of the return of wicked summer temps.
I enjoy celebrating this magical time of year with my own annual tradition, a custom I began many years ago. I am surprised how many of my friends and neighbors here in the Old Pueblo practice the same tradition: calling loved ones up north or back east under the guise of “reconnecting,” simply to gloat about our weather.
They’ve seen our warm winters. One winter Maysie and Qunicy were visiting, staying at one of our finer resorts, enjoying our enviable climate. Assuming the racket outside their room was room service, they opened their door to see what the fuss was about only to find a herd of javelina right outside their room! Their bloodcurdling shrieks echoed across the resort and up the canyon— and pandemonium ensued.Maysie and Quincy don’t think that joke is funny and Quincy thinks I “get too much sun.
I won’t let Aunt Maysie derail me. “Election Day here was gorgeous. It was in the eighties! Hey, the news says you got buried under a blanket of white—”“Yeah, well, we’re expecting a high of 76 degrees today!”
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