Wind in Your Hair, but Not in Your Ears?

Since everyone is still consumed with their anger toward the power companies, oppressive heat, or , I thought I’d post a slight diversion and complain about something that annoys me. And before this turns into one of the many heated (some pun intended) discussions, please remember that I’m just some guy with a blog and in no way have any real influence or meaningful outlook on what I’m talking about. And as my fellow blogger and bagel buddy, said, “But just remember it's my blog, so I'm always right.”

One thing that has always gotten under my skin is when people drive their convertibles with the top down and the windows up. You’ve seen them out on the roads. Their wind-induced, cool-guy (-gal) attitude totally ruined by having the side windows up. Regardless of the reason these people will use, it looks silly. And it’s not just me, there’s even a Facebook group dedicated to hating this (but there’s probably a Facebook group out there for pretty much everything these days, so this doesn’t really add any additional credibility to my position—see below).

• Excuse: I don’t want the wind messing up my hair. Solution: Don’t buy a convertible.
• Excuse: At higher speeds, the wind hurts my ears. Solution: Don’t buy a convertible.
• Excuse: The wind buffeting is annoying. Solution: Don’t buy a convertible.

You see where I’m going. If you want to be cool and have the fun of the convertible, leave the windows down when you fold back your top. Your “cool quotient” is inversely proportional to the level of your windows.

My Facebook Experiment
To test my theory that there is a Facebook group out there for just about everything, I did a quick experiment—all in the name of science, of course.

1. I went to Wikipedia
2. Clicked on “Random article”
3. That took me to the “juggling ring” article
4. Then a quick Google search for “I hate juggling + facebook”
5. Voilà: i HATE juggling (ok, only one person Likes this page, but I think it still proves my precise data-driven theory)