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- 2006 'Evil Stealth Black' Roadster
We've all experienced a situation like this. I'm curious to hear how people handle it.
It's a late afternoon in the middle of summer. Whether your coming out of the mall after doing some shopping, or leaving work for the afternoon commute home, you open the door of the building and heat hits you in the face like a brick wall. The humidity makes it seem like your trying to breathe through a wet towel. You can already feel, after mere milliseconds spent in the 98-degree heat, the sweat beginning to form at your temples and around your neck.
Ah, but this is just the beginning of your afternoon adventure! You must now find your car in the midst of a vast asphalt sea. The heat radiating off the parking lot blacktop is making your feet feel like your some sort of Shaman walking on hot coals. You spot your Corvette right where you parked it a few hours ago- at the very farthest row of parking, so as to ensure no one would want to park next it. Well, they didn't. That plan worked. But the five minute walk you face to parking lot hinterland will now seem like an eternity in hell in this summer heat.
Finally- you have arrived at your Corvette. Your key fob button depressed, the driver's door has now unlocked. You climb into the leather seat- God help you if you're wearing shorts, those 3rd degree burns on the backs of your legs you've just given yourself will take some time to heal. You close the door, you fire up the engine. The interior of car is easily 25 degrees hotter than the outside, and you are sweltering! Your clothes are now sticking to your body.
So, how long do you wait to turn on the AC? You've only just started the engine- do you give it any chance to warm up? Or do you risk the possibility of a few seconds of hot, dry air being blown onto you until the AC system adjusts itself and starts blowing cold air? If you wait, how long do you wait, and what's your rationale for why you delay turning the AC on? Or do you simply try to be Andre-tough, and roll the window down, scoffing at those who insist on using the AC?
Welcome to summer folks- It's the AC Poll.
-Patrick
It's a late afternoon in the middle of summer. Whether your coming out of the mall after doing some shopping, or leaving work for the afternoon commute home, you open the door of the building and heat hits you in the face like a brick wall. The humidity makes it seem like your trying to breathe through a wet towel. You can already feel, after mere milliseconds spent in the 98-degree heat, the sweat beginning to form at your temples and around your neck.
Ah, but this is just the beginning of your afternoon adventure! You must now find your car in the midst of a vast asphalt sea. The heat radiating off the parking lot blacktop is making your feet feel like your some sort of Shaman walking on hot coals. You spot your Corvette right where you parked it a few hours ago- at the very farthest row of parking, so as to ensure no one would want to park next it. Well, they didn't. That plan worked. But the five minute walk you face to parking lot hinterland will now seem like an eternity in hell in this summer heat.
Finally- you have arrived at your Corvette. Your key fob button depressed, the driver's door has now unlocked. You climb into the leather seat- God help you if you're wearing shorts, those 3rd degree burns on the backs of your legs you've just given yourself will take some time to heal. You close the door, you fire up the engine. The interior of car is easily 25 degrees hotter than the outside, and you are sweltering! Your clothes are now sticking to your body.
So, how long do you wait to turn on the AC? You've only just started the engine- do you give it any chance to warm up? Or do you risk the possibility of a few seconds of hot, dry air being blown onto you until the AC system adjusts itself and starts blowing cold air? If you wait, how long do you wait, and what's your rationale for why you delay turning the AC on? Or do you simply try to be Andre-tough, and roll the window down, scoffing at those who insist on using the AC?
Welcome to summer folks- It's the AC Poll.
-Patrick
4LT GS Roadster
