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Had Enough: The Goo Goo Dolls (1989)
For those of you who are not familiar, The Weather is a malevolent force with a personal vendetta against the citizens of Buffalo, NY. It deliberately plots and schemes its psychologically destructive weather patterns for maximum effect. Those few days when it hit sixty degrees last week? That was a sinister plot perpetrated by The Weather to create the false hope that spring had finally – after six grueling months of demoralizing winter – arrived. Yes, we opened windows and turned down our thermostats like fools. Fools! We looked at each other admiringly in our spring jackets, rediscovering our bodies, big stupid smiles on our big stupid faces. We enjoyed the warm breeze and blue skies self-assured in the fact that we had earned it. We deserved the temperate weather. Only to be utterly devastated by last night’s vindictive snowfall, a snowfall that lasted all day today and will continue all day tomorrow. Why, Weather? Why are you doing this to us?
This is the madness that living in Buffalo will bestow upon you. One personifies the weather until it becomes a real, living, breathing, entity, tirelessly making life harder, punishing the city for some long forgotten sin. Each successive snowfall increasingly seems like a very real and distinctly personal affront against you. Reason and logic are abandoned as one tries to better understand The Weather’s motives. Madness, I say! Madness!
UPDATE: It didn’t snow after all. Mind games, I tell you.
