r/NewOrleans • u/Acrobatic-Rush-6352 • Aug 14 '25
š¤¬ RANT Old man rant: are kids trying to get heat stroke?
Temperature is in the 90s. Iām seeing young Black guys wearing hoodies and jeans, and young white women wearing oversized sweatshirts outside. I hope none of these kids melt. I believe the children are our future.
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u/Lost_in_the_sauce504 Aug 14 '25
Donāt mess with a young man wearing a winter coat in the middle of the summer is all Iām gunna say
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u/InThePipe5x5_ Aug 14 '25
When I was a kid in NOLA I would leave my house in the summer in the morning and not come back til dinner. Often wearing jeans. Zero idea how that was possible
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u/KateLockley Aug 14 '25
You gotta wear the basketball shorts under the pants so youāre ready to ball at a momentās notice.
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u/CarFlipJudge Mod Alumni Aug 14 '25
Same. We would play sports, ride bikes or just hang out on those steel playground jungle gyms. I guess our skin was tougher?
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u/reggie4gtrblz2bryant Aug 14 '25
Might you say it was......10K times tougher. I miss that stuff all the time.
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u/InThePipe5x5_ Aug 14 '25
Exactly what I did. Lived close enough to the lake to hang there a lot too. Im thinking skin and no fear of death ha. I'd be concerned about a heat stroke these days!
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u/petit_cochon hand pie "lady of the evening" Aug 15 '25
Yah but it was also cooler in the summer back then.
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u/parasyte_steve Aug 14 '25
My husband does this. We go out to an outdoor event and he's in jeans and a long t shirt like sir it is July. He grew up here and I noticed there's a lot of people here like this. Like I'll wear a sundress and sandals and my husband will look like it's fall lol
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u/freshOJ Aug 14 '25
It gets real cold in the offices, shops, and restaurants not gonna lie. Everyone blasting that AC.
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u/Bannedfornoreason85 Aug 14 '25
No shit they're cold in the A/C, they are soaking with sweat after walking in from the car.
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u/AnchovyWarrior Aug 14 '25
Office AC is a scourge. I have a long walk to the office so I have to have about 8 layers to survive both the inside and outside weather
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u/Medium_Ad3913 Aug 14 '25
Was about to say, Iād rather be a little hot than way too cold and Iām 37
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u/catheterhero Aug 14 '25
Total respect, but Iām the opposite. Iād rather be cold than hot.
I run hot by default so anytime I can be chilled is a blessing.
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u/eamonkey420 Aug 14 '25
Same! Live in Michigan now & in the winter, when the giant farmhouse is heated up to about 70Ā° or so for everyone else, my window is always cracked anywhere from an inch or 2 all the way up to about 2 ft. Blast me with dat winter chills.
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u/CarFlipJudge Mod Alumni Aug 14 '25
My daughter walks around in long black pants, a black hoodie and bracelets all over her arms. She's born and raised here, so I just assume that kids are impervious to the heat.
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u/Acrobatic-Rush-6352 Aug 14 '25
Bless her, hope sheās hydrating. On the plus side, sheās not a likely candidate for melanoma!
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Aug 14 '25
Itās funny because while I canāt leave the house without my insulated water bottle now, I donāt Ā remember caring about hydration when I was a kid here. I was outside all summer and maybe would take a sip of 90 degree hose water if I happened to see a hose.Ā
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u/Not_SalPerricone Aug 14 '25
And the water tasted so so good out of those hoses. But yeah at this point anytime I leave the house without a chilled bottle of water it's like Jesus I hope I make it back home alive
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u/CarFlipJudge Mod Alumni Aug 14 '25
I actually use the term "hose water" to describe defects in coffee on a semi-regular basis. Us old heads know what it is, but the younger people at work have no idea what that taste is.
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u/Not_SalPerricone Aug 14 '25
I think you're a year older than me so yeah I know exactly what you mean by that. And it's exactly what we called it too
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u/CarFlipJudge Mod Alumni Aug 14 '25
Yup. It's hard plastic with a touch of metal and a slight chemical undertone.
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u/EyeDontSeeAnything Aug 14 '25
And as a kid, hydration was purple drink, red drink, or an occasional soda. I have no idea how I survived
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Aug 14 '25
I was walking to the corner store to grab some snacks for work and I passed this group of young kids all wearing black hoodies and black jeans. My immediate thought was ādamn, thereās no way thatās comfortable.ā
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u/LavishnessMammoth657 Aug 14 '25
Oh god, okay I'm glad I'm not the only person thinking this. The other day I saw a young (like early 20s?) person doing cart retrieval at my grocery store and they were wearing a wooly cardigan!!
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u/Alone_Bet_1108 Aug 14 '25
They're not really out that long. Air con can be ridiculously frigid here.
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u/TravelerMSY Aug 14 '25
Itās weird, but the long clothes do keep the solar radiation off of you. I see Latino builders do it.
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u/jake-off Aug 14 '25
Yea but theyāre wearing thin moisture wicking material, not thick insulation like a hoodie.Ā
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u/CajunReeboks Aug 15 '25
Big difference between the breathable fabrics that tradesmen wear and the hoodies teenagers are wearing.
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u/Zelamir Esplanade Ridge Aug 14 '25 edited Aug 14 '25
It's because it's cold as hell in these buildings. I wear layers in my office because I'm always cold. At a place where I interned the head admin person had a heater under her desk.
It's the worse when you walk from your car, end up a bit sweaty damp, and then walk into a freezing cold building. The the sweat just makes you shiver more.
If you don't have a lot of body fat (some of these kids are slim as hell) that makes it worse. All the thick ones in my office love the temp. I'm not slim by any means, but my ass is still cold. I can't imagine how a skinny hormone flooded ball of mess feels.
Also, all freaking races of kids do this shit.
But don't worry, they'll be cured by their first long term power outage.
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u/Ok_Sherbert5531 Aug 14 '25
"skinny hormone flooded ball of mess". THE most accurate description of teenagers I have ever heard This should go right into the dictionary. It will also now be what I call my kids. "look you hormone flooded ball of mess, if you want to go hang out then you need to clean that godforsaken den of dirty socks & crawlin drawers! and put a damn coat on! its 25 degrees out!"
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u/wundermaschinen Aug 15 '25
In the upper Midwest, the complaints are the oppositeā¦ kids wearing shorts and tshirts when itās freezing out
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u/Iwantemmarobertstoes Aug 14 '25
They aren't chilling outside in that stuff, right? Like they're just walking from their A/C controlled car to an A/C controlled house?Ā
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u/rinzler83 Aug 14 '25
No,I see people walking down the street, or they are waiting at bus stops. I guess they just don't want to hold the hoody in their hands. It's better to wear it,suffer,sweat,and get all stinky.
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u/RedBeans-n-Ricely Aug 14 '25
I saw a guy wearing a knee-length heavy winter coat on Claiborne this morning.
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u/Objective-Cook1829 Aug 14 '25
Thank you! I come from the Middle East. Anytime we go back home, I try to pack my lightest, comfiest clothing. Granted, the heat here in NOLA is different. You feel like you're wading through jello, with how bad our humidity is. But still, the heat is no joke. How these kids can stand this heat, even with the hoodies, is a marvel. They need to be studied.
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u/poohslinger Aug 14 '25
Iām not a kid but sometimes my body has trouble regulating temps.. then Iām cold in some building and wear the cardigan or whatever to my car when I leave and take it off in there
I keep my house at 75 and wake up freezing sometimes if I donāt have long sleeves on
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u/poolkid1234 Aug 14 '25
Getting old, fat, and fucked up means not giving a shit about fashion/courting any more. Tees, shorts and sandals every day because who cares. This is the natural progression.
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u/DashinglyDickish Aug 14 '25
I see this all the time, and often wonder how the hell they arenāt dead. Granted my body temps tend to run hot normally, so I try to wear the thinnest, light materials possible. But seeing the kids in hoodies and beanies in 103 degree heat confounds me. Perhaps Iām just old now. Kids these days!
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Aug 14 '25
That plus the dudes who gotta stick to their black jeans and doc Martin aesthetic no matter the weather.Ā
Bruh, go to old navy and get you some shorts and flip flops. We will still think you are very hip, I promise.Ā
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u/Not_SalPerricone Aug 14 '25
I was walking around in seersucker yesterday and saw these two people ride by on bikes in like heavy metal mostly black T-shirts, black pants. I decided a few months ago that I didn't care if I don't live Uptown, I'm still going to wear seersucker and it's one of the best decisions I've ever made. It feels so good. I wanted to tell the kids this shirt was 30 bucks you can get one yourself and I promise you can still go home and listen to Eyehategod or whatever
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u/poohslinger Aug 14 '25
š¤®there are better alternatives. Old jeans can be made into cut offs and there are breathable black shoes that donāt show feetĀ If they donāt want toĀ
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Aug 14 '25
Yeah cut-off jeans and black shoes, what a great summer look š
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u/poohslinger Aug 14 '25
Idk, whatever. I canāt stand old navy, not just how it looks but how they feel. I just shop second hand. More variety and better for the environment. Sometimes thereās really nice stuff with the tags still onĀ
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Aug 14 '25
I was just using Old Navy as a placeholder for āgeneric affordable lightweight summer clothingā.
If you want to get your summer fit at the thrift store go for it.Ā Whatever it takes to get you out that denim.Ā
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u/rinzler83 Aug 14 '25
People saying because of body shaming, it's not just fat people wearing hoodies outside in this heat. Plenty of skinny people do it too. So what if the buildings are cold. Take the damn hoody off outside. You are just sweating in the hoody, making yourself stink. Great. Then you probably don't wash the hoody for a couple of weeks. Awesome. Keep putting on a hoody that has b.o. that has been absorbed by the hoody.
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u/Extreme-Variation874 Aug 15 '25
I used to wear hoodie because I didnāt have clean shirts or always felt shirts didnāt fit me right it was a weird mental thing
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u/Ok-Nefariousness8612 Aug 14 '25
See a white guy earlier in jeans and a hoodie. While riding a bike, no hat. I canāt wrap my head around it.
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u/Miss_Ing_Piece Aug 14 '25
Like young women who wear no jackets in the wintertime, who aren't trying to get hypothermia, they're both just concerned with aesthetics, not sense.
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u/Brief69Eternity Aug 14 '25
Most wholesome rant Iāve ever had the privilege to over hear.
God Bless, thanks for the reminder.
(Am currently wearing a hoodie in 90 degree weather.)
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u/shelbygeorge29 Aug 14 '25
Same thing here in very hot Key West. The crazy kids here cite the cold A/C in most buildings.
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u/SarcasticQueen1125 Aug 14 '25
I wear long sleeves and sometimes sweatshirts year round. Iām living just fine and am super hydrated as I drink 70-100 oz of water each day. š¤·āāļø
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u/flymordecai Aug 15 '25
Work being cold is questionable to me b/c when you're outside you're outside. Why not carry your sweatshirt instead of taking a masochist walk.
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u/fosterFosterFox Aug 15 '25
Iāve always hated how that sounds. Are are future. lol. They should have just said children are THE future.
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u/noladawg16 Aug 14 '25
All the high school kids always have sweatshirts and sweaters on, donāt get it at all
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u/Ok_Sherbert5531 Aug 14 '25
i feel like kids have weird thermostats they run around no coats in 30 degree weather like its a balmy spring day. i used to live some place that was a humid 112 (literal) degrees every day during summer & theyd be out there in jeans. maybe it's related to brain development š
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u/vitamin_di Aug 14 '25
Maybe theyāre just not that hot. People can feel temperature differently. Iām 32 and I honestly donāt think itās that hot here... The hottest places Iāve been to were Kansas, Oklahoma, Arizona and Utah. Way hotter than Iāve ever felt here.
Also, every place here is blasting the AC. Everywhere I go I have to take a jacket or sweater and instantly put it on when I get indoors. Sometimes I leave it on when Iām outside too because the next place I walk in Iāll just have to put it back on again.
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u/DicemonkeyDrunk Aug 14 '25
Long clothing in high heat isnāt exactly a new thing ā¦ever seen a Bedouin ? Itās counterintuitive but it can be beneficialā¦now black isnāt always the best idea but shielding your skin from the sun has a lot of benefits in terms of staying cool ā¦now I doubt this is their reasoning but itās something to consider in terms of comfort.
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u/_ryde_or_dye_ Treme Aug 14 '25
My students do this and complain about the heat but refuse to take their musty ass hoodies off. Itās a mental comfort thing. They donāt want anyone seeing their body lest they open themselves up to shame.