For most of my life I
grew up thinking the “wind chill factor” was “the windshield factor.” I did not
drive and neither did my mother growing up.
When I would hear this
expression from time to time on the news, I hardly ever listened carefully to it
because it was something that didn’t have anything to do with me or interest me
having grown up predominantly on subways and buses my whole life besides the
fact that I was just a kid.
Well one day, while
talking to others in my family as a young adult I mentioned the “windshield
factor” for whatever reason.
After laughing at what
I had just said thinking I was only joking, I then got looks like, is she
serious, what the hell is she talking about? My sister found it most amusing as
she often finds my little malapropisms and the like.
It made perfect sense
to me when I thought it about and of course I thought I knew what I was talking
about.
I thought the
“windshield factor” was some sort of a measurement of how hard the wind hits
the windshield while driving and that that somehow determined the strength of
the wind and then was something having to do with weather forecasting.
Boy, was I dumb! LOL
By:
Donna Van Blarcom
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