Temperature That's Keeping You Warm

I am not really much for science. I appreciate it. I am impressed by it. Whenever I was in a science class I enjoyed the learning of it. When I taught science to grade school kids - I thought the experiments were clever. I'm just not really one for science in the oh-my-gosh-I-DVR-every-Bill-Nye-and-subscribe-to-journals-so-I-could-do-surgery-on-a-plane type of person.

All this being said - I love that there are two different ways of telling temperature. I love that there is Celsius and Fahrenheit. Here is why:

Scenario one.) It is a hot cook-an-egg-over-easy-on-the-asphalt kind of day. You drive by a bank or some other establishment that has the temperature flashing on their board. It says 110 degrees Fahrenheit. one hundred and ten. Now that just sounds HOT. Much hotter than the corresponding 48 degrees Celsius.

Scenario two.) This is an inverted example of scenario one. It is a cold freeze-to-death-because-of-wind-chill kind of day. You drive by the same bank and see the tacky red numbers flash the temperature. Fahrenheit reads 14 degrees. Now - that is freaking cold, but it doesn't seem nearly as cold as the -10 degrees Celsius that flashes on the board next. In your mind - the world feels much closer to -10 than 14 degrees even though the mean the exact same thing.

So in summary - I like science because it makes it easier for me to give into my hyperbolic tendencies.