May 1998 Page 6 reverend Tom's To (Or so} 16. Summer starts breathing heavy and thrusting her hips forward while moaning “Oh baby, yes, YES!” 15. Women begin thinking about becoming Baywatch-like in bathing suits, but ironically look more like David Hasselhoff than Pamela Anderson. 14. Water sports you remembered from your youth have been replaced by “Who can pee on the most parked cars from a moving vehicle.” 13. Sex becomes harder and harder to come by as the amount of impotence rises relative to blood- alcohol levels. 12. Parties now involve wet T-shirt contests judged by the amount of puke brought up. Additional points given to anyone who can identify the alco- hol consumed. II. The college, in its infinite wisdom, decides it’s a good idea to fill the pool and start the sprinklers now that there’s no one here to enjoy them. 10. Convertibles with their tops down come out, proving conclusively that there simply is nothing p Ten reasons you know summer's coming better than the fine PVC coating of a back seat of a car to yak into when stumbling home from a party. 9. Kleenex stock prices go through the roof as sales soar due to the increasing num- ber of girls starting to wear sun dresses. 8. You can’t wait to lie naked on the sand at Wreck Beach. 7, You can’t wait to spend the next six months pulling sand out of your ass after lying naked on the sand at Wreck Beach. 6. You really can't wait to spend the next year spreading aloe on your sun- burned ass after lying naked on the sand at Wreck Beach. 5. Bundled socks are staring to be sold out everywhere as men start putting on the old Speedo. 4. Your lack of planning means looking for a summer job at some ungodly place like Radio Shack, or working for a geology graduate student. 3. Camping with male buddies seems like a good idea until everybody gets drunk, figures out there are no women, and somebody brings out a Gimp outfit and starts playing the theme from Deliverance on a banjo. 2. Sun worshippers come out thinking that skin cancer looks much more attractive than ordinary acne. I. Males begin going topless, giving ideas to Crayola inventors for the new colour “Fish Belly White” while simultaneously blinding passers-by by reflecting the sun off perfectly white surfaces approximately the size of Ontario.