Fair Weather Thoughts

On my way down to the campground office in Kingman Arizona the other morning, I ran into a few elderly men on the front porch and we exchanged the usual “nice day, isn’t it” pleasantries. It dawned on me that Kingman, with its sunny dry weather, rarely has a day that isn’t what we call “nice”; in fact, the weather there during our visit was what we would call one of those rare “10”’s in New England --- sunny, dry, no clouds and temps in the low 70’s. With that in mind, I started to wonder: what do the locals in these sunny warm climates use for small talk? In New England, we can always count on an excuse to say “is it cold enough for you?” or “well, we really did need the rain” if we want to generate some idle conversation. What do they use to generate small talk in southern climates where the weather is always “perfect”?