We actually do these things.
1) Eat breakfast in the dark to avoid the extra heat from the overhead light.
2) When driving and approaching a red traffic light, stop a good 100 feet behind the intersection, just because there's a patch of shade to wait in.
3) Learn how to sleep with no body parts touching, since any point of contact is sure to sweat profusely.
4) Rearrange living room into bizarre set up so that main seating areas are directly under overhead fan.
5) Three showers per day.
6) Go the the mall and wander around aimlessly just to be in AC.
7) Go a 7-11 and wander around aimlessly just to be in AC.
8) Make purchases specifically in stores on the lower floor of the mall, as opposed to the upper floor, because the AC isn't as powerful on the upper floor.
9) Roll shirt up to leave stomach exposed and provide more ventilation. This is done anywhere, any time, under any circumstances.
10) Nothing. It's too hot to do a damn thing.
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A college student friend of mine from Yucatan attended a conference in Mexico City. Many of the attendees were excited to meet a real Yucatecan for the first time.
She regaled them with tales of homes that have no beds, just hammocks and all other kinds of wacky how-to-deal-with-the-heat stories.
They loved the stories and didn't believe a word of them. Upon coming to visit her they were actually shocked to find hammocks everywhere.
They really hadn't believed the stories.
Personally I miss fresh squeezed orange juice served up in a plastic bag with a straw. A Guanajuato specialty perhaps?
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