RE: Do you and yours wear thermal under clothes when the weather gets cold?
November 13, 2018 at 9:27 pm
This reminds me of an interesting anecdote I heard back in the late 1970's.
Henry David Thoreau was making his way to town from his cabin near Walden Pond, intent on doing some early morning shopping. The air was bitterly cold and the January snow was over a foot deep. About halfway to the general store he passed a farmhouse with a cord of firewood neatly piled on its front porch. Much to his surprise, a barefooted old man clad in nothing but his underwear suddenly emerged from the house and hastily began gathering wood from the pile.
"Excuse me, sir!" Thoreau exclaimed. "You're going to catch your death of cold! You should put some clothes on before going outside."
The old man eyed Thoreau sternly for a moment, then replied, "Young man, I've been getting dressed in front of a hot stove for over seventy years. I'm too old to change."
Henry David Thoreau was making his way to town from his cabin near Walden Pond, intent on doing some early morning shopping. The air was bitterly cold and the January snow was over a foot deep. About halfway to the general store he passed a farmhouse with a cord of firewood neatly piled on its front porch. Much to his surprise, a barefooted old man clad in nothing but his underwear suddenly emerged from the house and hastily began gathering wood from the pile.
"Excuse me, sir!" Thoreau exclaimed. "You're going to catch your death of cold! You should put some clothes on before going outside."
The old man eyed Thoreau sternly for a moment, then replied, "Young man, I've been getting dressed in front of a hot stove for over seventy years. I'm too old to change."
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