Anybody Else Hate Fall?

[Mizzougrad96]

Sweatshirt weather and football. I love the Fall.

 

[joe]

I think I'm in love

[blushing]

 

[Boom_70]

Bangles version all day. Also add Reeling in the Years to the soundtrack.

Fall would depress the hell out of me were it not for the sweet, sweet heroin that is college football.

I prefer S&G version.

And adding to the list of haunting seasonal songs : Summer Rain by Johnny Rivers.

 

[mjp1542]

Raking leaves >>>>> mowing the lawn.

I'm trying to figure out how anyone could think that. Please explain this nonsense.

You like mowing the lawn?

They both suck, but the physical exertion required to mow the lawn, coupled with likely very high temperatures, sucks infinitely more than raking the leaves in a much more moderate climate. Especially if you don't let them pile up. I'd take shoveling snow over mowing the lawn, too.

And, the after-task beer tastes better after raking.

Mowing the lawn is infinitely better than raking leaves. Leaf raking is pure evil. And that’s before the goddamned wind starts blowing. But there’s an even more definitive reason why mowing > raking.

When you start that sonofabitch of a mower, you become Lawn Mower. No longer are you merely man (or woman, or what have you). As Lawn Mower, you are immune from pretty much everything. Outside noise? Gone, thanks to your machine’s loud-ass motor. Other duties? Hell no. You can’t just do part of the lawn.

Ever see that annoying, yappy neighbor of yours coming your way when serving as Lawn Mower? Hell the **** no. Because he or she sees you are mowing, and they stay the **** away. Nobody likes to get close to the mower. It’s dangerous, for one, and the Lawn Mower is in the ****ing zone. He’s doing his pattern, covering ground, focused, in his own world. Does the wife come out and ask for a favor? **** no. She doesn’t bother Lawn Mower. The kids? Can’t ****ing hear them. It’s too loud. And they stay far enough away. Because the mower scares them.

Try most of that while you’re practicing your horrible posture raking leaves. Mr. Annoying Neighbor WILL step in for a chat. “Hey buddy, lotta leaves there. Fall comes earlier and earlier every year, doesn’t it?” Have fun with that small talk. Wife needs you to organize the living room? “Honey, come here, you can finish the leaves after we get the couch moved.” No excuses. Kids want to play? Try telling them no. They’ll just jump in the piles of leaves you’ve raked and you’re starting the **** over.

Lawn Mower. All . Day. Long.

 

[Cosmo]

Fall in my part of Virginia is as good as it gets ... temps in the low 70s. Blue Ridge Parkway a 20-minute drive away ... great hiking, golfing, biking weather. By far my favorite season.

 

[Quiet Man]

I'm with you Lugnuts. Not sure I can say that i hate fall, but it signals the end of warm weather. And around here, that can happen as soon as late September in a bad year. If I'm stuck at work on a nice spring day, that sucks. But I know there will be plenty more nice days ahead. Stuck at work on a nice fall day? Could be the last nice day for another 6 months. Ugh.

 

[dixiehack]

There's always that bittersweet feeling here when we have to put away flip flops around the week of Thanksgiving.

 

[RickStain]

Summer is hot, winter is cold, spring is dirty. Fall is the only worthwhile season.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

Hated autumn when I lived in the north. The beginning of the gray, dull days, signalling the months ahead where mother nature made you her *****. **** snow, **** ice (except in cocktail glasses), **** shoveling, **** frostbitten extremities, **** salt residue an inch thick on your road beaten vehicle.

Autumn down south is much more acceptable. Summer's still my favorite--never have minded the heat after building up a strong tolerance in my youth along the 100% humidity banks of the Mississippi, but fall in Dixie is quite pleasant--nice temps, still shirt sleeve weather at most outdoor football games well into Halloween time.

And then generally a tolerable two month period of winter, if you classify winter as a period where the occasional low temp approaches freezing, not the high, and a snow or ice storm every several years.

So, lug--I think your view of autumn is affected by where you live. At least it has been for me.

And mow the lawn wins out all day, every day. One other reason not mentioned is the quality of accomplishment. When the lawn is mowed, you look out and see perfection---every blade trimmed, every one the same length--clean, smooth, uniformity.

Even if you do an almost perfect job of raking the leaves, there's always going to be more than a few leaves that escaped the clutches of the raking instrument and leave a not quite complete finishing look to the task. Frankly, I'll all for waiting long enough for the wind to take care of my leaf problem and make it my neighbors.

 

[Buck]

 

[JackReacher]

Raking leaves >>>>> mowing the lawn.

I'm trying to figure out how anyone could think that. Please explain this nonsense.

You like mowing the lawn?

They both suck, but the physical exertion required to mow the lawn, coupled with likely very high temperatures, sucks infinitely more than raking the leaves in a much more moderate climate. Especially if you don't let them pile up. I'd take shoveling snow over mowing the lawn, too.

And, the after-task beer tastes better after raking.

Mowing the lawn is infinitely better than raking leaves. Leaf raking is pure evil. And that’s before the goddamned wind starts blowing. But there’s an even more definitive reason why mowing > raking.

When you start that sonofabitch of a mower, you become Lawn Mower. No longer are you merely man (or woman, or what have you). As Lawn Mower, you are immune from pretty much everything. Outside noise? Gone, thanks to your machine’s loud-ass motor. Other duties? Hell no. You can’t just do part of the lawn.

Ever see that annoying, yappy neighbor of yours coming your way when serving as Lawn Mower? Hell the **** no. Because he or she sees you are mowing, and they stay the **** away. Nobody likes to get close to the mower. It’s dangerous, for one, and the Lawn Mower is in the ****ing zone. He’s doing his pattern, covering ground, focused, in his own world. Does the wife come out and ask for a favor? **** no. She doesn’t bother Lawn Mower. The kids? Can’t ****ing hear them. It’s too loud. And they stay far enough away. Because the mower scares them.

Try most of that while you’re practicing your horrible posture raking leaves. Mr. Annoying Neighbor WILL step in for a chat. “Hey buddy, lotta leaves there. Fall comes earlier and earlier every year, doesn’t it?” Have fun with that small talk. Wife needs you to organize the living room? “Honey, come here, you can finish the leaves after we get the couch moved.” No excuses. Kids want to play? Try telling them no. They’ll just jump in the piles of leaves you’ve raked and you’re starting the **** over.

Lawn Mower. All . Day. Long.

That was ****ing awesome. Take a ******* bow.

 

[forever_town]

My favorite season is football season. Football season always happens in the fall unless you're the USFL.

Thus, I love fall, even though I love seeing "a little bit more," so to speak during the summer.

 

[dooley_womack1]

I think I'm in love

[blushing]

Joe will resume posting in eight seconds.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Fall is by far my favorite season by far perhaps because it's marks the start of football. Fall for me also seems to be a time of contemplation more so than any other season. For whatever reason it's definitely the most emotional of the season's. To of the most haunting songs I know are Hazy Shade of Winter and California Dreamin. Both describe the feelings of the fall perfectly.

Labor Day used to mark the start of fall season and growing up I always found that day depressing since it was time to get back to school and the only thing in TV was the Jerry Lewis telethon. At least now we have plenty of tv options.

I spend most of spring crying because of allergies.

Also, "A Hazy Shade of Winter": Simon & Garfunkel or Bangles?

Simon & Garfunkel. Not the eye candy, of course, but music isn't about looks.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Actually, both versions are good; the Bangles intended their version to pretty much be a direct homage, not a reimagining

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Only thing I hate about the changing of the seasons are the allergies and colds and other **** that comes with it. It never fails that I always get sick at some point during the fall.

 

[Boom_70]

Actually, both versions are good; the Bangles intended their version to pretty much be a direct homage, not a reimagining

Hang on to your hopes my friend.

 

[Shoeless Joe]

I'm all about the fall. The temperatures are perfect, 65-70. It's beautiful here with the colors. College football. I'm fairly warm natured, so I'll still be wearing shorts outside even into December.

Winter sucks unless it's snowing. I like it leading up to Christmas for the season and like a big snow in January just to see one. After that, I'm done with winter. Spring truly blows because it's nothing but mud. I hate mud. Once you get to about May 1, spring is good. I like summer, but I don't like the heat that goes along with it. Summer evenings are wonderful, but I'm more holed up inside during the heat of the afternoon than I am in winter.

 

[waterytart]

Add me to the "Fall is my favorite season" group.

Unfortunately, Bubbler is right about the shift in seasonal timing. The past two years, it's been too warm at Thanksgiving to light the fireplaces. That's just wrong.

 

[playthrough]

Living in Indiana, yeah, I dug the fall. Long sleeves and pants on the golf course, Friday night football with blankets in the stands, walking the dog at night. Loved it all.

Now, as a Northeast Floridian, fall is a rumor. It's a couple weeks that aren't **** hot before winter arrives, and yes there is a winter here. If I have to sit through a frost delay before golf (and two years ago my local course had 40 days with frost delays), that's winter.

(Yes, I judge all seasons by golf.)