Anyone who lives in the South knows it.  Each summer it strikes with the onset of hot and humid days.  When the heat index creeps over 105 people start to lose their minds.  Tempers flare, insanity takes over the public conscience, and the only remedy is a trip to the lake or a cold front.

Southerners are renowned for their manners and friendliness, but I suppose that is mostly because Northers don’t visit during July and August.  The higher the mercury climbs the ruder the population gets.

This is my ninth summer in the medical clinic I work for and every year we see the onset of the heat bring temper-tantrums and general hysteria.  Even in the super-chilled air of the clinic patients are rude and whiny and angry.  Less actual illness, more irritability.

I’m always happy when September comes.