Rare things we do now that we are dealing with a heat alarm

Be honest, the heat alarm makes you go beyond shame. You don't even notice a sweat mustache anymore and the practical bun is your new signature. Foundation? That's something from a far, far, far past, because no way it sticks to your skin and otherwise you'll get hot from it. Plus the 21 things we do, think, and want at 30-plus degrees.

1. Sitting in front of the fan for half an hour after you've exercised or walked from the subway to the office or just moved around.
2. Very carefully peeling your sticky legs off that plastic chair. And that hurts, people, hurts. We haven't even talked about those little squares that uncharmingly stick to your thighs.
3. Secretly dabbing your sweat mustache by doing ‘the thinker’. Place your thumb under your chin and your index finger over the sticky part and dab.
4. Trying to get your rings off with a lot of soap, without anyone seeing it.
5. Sitting with your legs just a bit wider to let the air circulate. Disclaimer: only works with a skirt or dress, so you know what you're wearing.
6. Sliding foot baths over to your colleagues, really no shame here, you know.
7. The anti-chafing thigh spray going around the office. Next level sharing.
8. Cursing loudly when you burn your thighs on the leather of your car seat. HOT.
9. Talking all day about ice, ice baths, kiddie pools; everything.
10. Sleeping in the nude.
11. Definitely taking off everything you're wearing when you get home and immediately running through the shower.
12.  Braiding your bangs, even if it makes you look like a child again. Anything to get that wet flap out of your face.
13. Planning a beach day a week in advance. It can happen, people, it can.
14. Spending a lot of time in the shower, which is inconvenient for the impending drought.
15. Fiddling with deodorant under your armpits sixty times a day, causing your colleagues to need resuscitation.
16. Completely panicking when you get stuck in traffic and you only have one, I repeat one, bottle of water bottle with you. Remember that time when you made it through three summers with one bottle? That's what I mean.
17. Waking up in the nude and just chasing after those mosquitoes, without shame.
18. Counting each other's mosquito bites at the office, we are just little monkeys.
19. Is it going to rain? Where, when, how, should we stand outside? We find rain nice, yes. We Dutch.
20. Wondering if you can still pump water from the IJsselmeer, because that is our big reserve in times of drought.
21. Staying in to binge that series, because tomorrow it’s just going to be hot again.