Bundle Up Like A Mummy!
Summer is almost over. In fact, a good friend of mine says that summer is over July 5th. The days start to get shorter, he says. It is scientifically true, but it is not over in spirit. It is only getting rolling. He also says that he never gets cold in the winter. The only time he does is that initial chill. The first time that it is suddently thirty or forty degrees (Fahrenheit) out, he feels really cold and bundles up because his body is not used to it.
I have news for him: Cold is cold and if its below zero out and if you are not a St. Bernard or a walrus, it is not unmanly to admit so. There is no “mind over matter” or level of personal growth involved. Even Iditarod entrants can only take so much. Our bodies were just not designed that way.
One consideration I had was going into the office and bringing a down comforter and a crazy deerstalker hat to prove my point, as he also blasts the air conditioning at this time of year, and opens the windows in the winter. Maybe I would hit the point even more by getting a huge thermometer and sticking it in my mouth.
Then, I stumbled across a travel blanket site. Just like some jokes and gags that deliver a serious message, I found something very practical. It usually happens that I start out being “up to no good” that I find something pretty cool.
The Cabin Cuddler is specially made to fit in an airline or an office chair. It is a full 80″ long so it can even work for the tall and bigger guys. It is a very different shape than a regular blanket and it can be wrapped to cocoon you in without being unwieldy. There is even a foot pocket. I recommend taking your shoes off for that if you are in to clodhoppers or steel toes. It comes with a carrying case so you can easily stash it when you travel or in your desk drawer.
If you are sitting in a chair, from the back, passersby would have no idea anything was different, or that you had a blanket on until you whipped around. A lot of old movies and horror films feature someone walking into a room and calling someone’s name, and all the sudden the chair turns around on its own, and it has a skeleton in it. I would turn around and instead of running and screaming, they would say “Oh, that looks comfortable! I want one.”
It is all about the element of surprise!
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