Bay Area restaurants open up...customers have little patience

Casey Jones wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:It's bad dat youmidity!  You never get used to it. Two minutes outside and already sweating like a pig. I don't know how those old people lived without AC. Some didn't  even have a fan or electricity.
It's hot now. It's going on midnite and it's 81 outside with a heat index of 94. It's humid. How in the hell can you sleep outside? A fan would only make you more miserable and convection cook you.  

Places like Houston...never grew, until air conditioning became affordable.

Seriously.  My old man was a chemical engineer.  His employer became ExxonMobil...but back then, the check was signed by a division called EnJay Chemical.  (as in, NJ...New Jersey).    Division of Esso...corporate title, Humble Oil and Refining.

HUMBLE OIL.  Originated from Humble, Texas.  Humble Oil merged with Standard Oil of New Jersey (Esso) but kept their Texas roots.  My old man was on the fast track, as a young man...1968, they wanted him to move to Houston (from Cleveland/Akron) with a big fat pay raise.

He declined and was told to resign.  He did.

Because he didn't want to move to Houston.

I was ten years old.  I didn't understand it then, and not twelve years later when I lived in Houston for a year; but now, I sure do.  Air Conditioning is...LIFE.  Take it away, and Houston becomes a tiny port town, again...in this case, a big ghost town.