As of late I have been enjoying a dinnertime beer with my mailman in the afternoons! After he has finished his route (which I am near the end of) he will park out front and join for a “social distance” drink on my front porch, and he is an interesting guy, a military vet and former cop with a lot of fantastic stories to tell. I don’t need to tell you how overheated it has been recently, this summer time is shaping up to be the hottest a single ever, so I was asking him about the mail truck, you’ve seen them before, missing a door, and I found out it had no air conditioning in it! I can’t imagine spending that numerous minutes a day in a automobile with no AC, what fresh torture that must be. He told me it was all a question of mind over matter, because a lack of cooling still didn’t compare to his time spent overseas in the military. He would go weeks in the desert separate from even the slightest whiff of air conditioning, not to mention the lousy air quality and the sand storms. He said that if he had his choice, he would of course have A/C in the mail truck, however it never occurred to him to complain about it to his bosses. He said that when Winter time came around the furnace worked just fine, which is much more important than having a cooling system. It was the same reason that he never asked to come inside and suppose my AC, he was just nice kneeling out in the heat.