Don't Like Summer

I'm not trying to be excessively negative, but just to vent. As such, here are the top ten reasons why winters in Chicago are way better than summers (off the top of my head, in no particular order):

1. Everywhere you go in Chicago during the summer someone is cutting something with a circular saw, all day long. The only sound I can think of that is more unpleasant than this unholy screech is the dentist drill.

2. In the winter you can warm up by wearing sweaters, moving around and going for walks. In the summer you are screwed unless you are dead.

3. Sleeping is much easier/nicer when buried under 25 blankets.

4. The streets are safer in the winter, because there aren't as many disenfranchised, destitute, amoral opportunists wandering around looking for targets.

5. You can ride your bike along the lake path in the winter without having to dodge forty thousand errant volleyballs and worry over life after an involuntary manslaughter conviction because of the dumbasses who let their little kids wander around unsupervised.

6. There are fewer people out during the winter. In the summer all you can think about is how the world's problems are all directly linked to way too much human-fucking.

7. Cruising while playing indiscernable hip-hop in bolt-rattling car audio systems goes up by 400%.

8. Assholes with Harleys they've finally been able to finance think they're being subversive by setting off all the car alarms as they tear down the streets in a desperate effort to recapture the vague elements of their youth.

9. You can't go to the lake without being nauseated by the stench of exhaust fumes from whatever kind of fuel is used in motorboats and jet skis.

10. Even more cars everywhere.

Note- Snow is nice, but so are green leaves on the trees, especially when they are rustling in the wind, so those two things sort of cancel each other out.