Shortly after I arrived in Argentina, a thunderstorm rolled through our town. It came quickly and my companion remarked, “If you don’t like the weather here, just wait five minutes.” Being raised in LA, I was not used to severe weather and I’d never heard that saying before. I felt somewhat privileged to be in an area with precocious weather. I don’t know why. Livin’ on the edge.
A few years later, I was in Utah attending school. A snowstorm interrupted a pleasant fall week and again, someone used the same “5 minute” quip. Hey, wait. That is about Buenos Aires, not Provo! Well, maybe it was both. To think, mission and college in two crazy weather places!
At age 30, I moved to Texas. Guess what people say when there’s a change in the weather? (I think people resort to weather cliché when they really don’t have anything else to say.)
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