By THE KOKOMO POST STAFF

There is nothing like living through an August in Indiana. The heat. The constantly shifting weather patterns. The anticipation of fall — but still wanting to hold onto the last bits of summer. It’s complicated, in a way only Hoosiers can understand.

We feel it. So here’s 50 accurate depictions of August in Indiana.

1. You are living on caffeine because you’re still adjusting to school wakeup times.

2. As soon as Kokomo Beach closes for the season, we have a week of 90-degree days.

3. You keep an extra close eye on your weather app because … Tornados.

4. You wish you had a penny for every time you heard someone say “it wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for this humidity.”

5. All the stores are bringing out the Halloween decorations, so you can’t resist wearing a flannel to work — and then immediately regret it.

6. All of us? Sweating. Hobby Lobby? Putting out Christmas decorations.

7. Waking your monsters (read: children) up in the morning because they still aren’t adjusted to the school schedule yet.

8. It’s bedtime. Are the birds chirping louder and the sun shining harder?

9. Impatiently waiting for soup season.

10. Saying you’re going to a concert at “Klipsch. Rouff. Whatever, I still call it Deer Creek.”

11. Getting into your car with leather seats after running into the store.

12. Eating so much Daily’s sweet corn that you never want to look at another ear again. Until next year.

13. That guy up the street is still setting off 4th of July fireworks at 10 p.m., even though it’s 10 p.m. in August.

14. Eating on the patio at 3 Amigos and nearly need a skin graft when you stand up because you melted into the seat.

15. If you managed a tan this summer, let’s be honest. It’s uneven and weird by August.

16. Basically spending the entire month of August sharing memes about “spooky season” on Facebook.

17. The mosquitos. That’s all. Just the mosquitos.

18. The feeling you get when Scoops Ice Cream releases the first pumpkin spice flavor product of the year.

19. August is still too hot to sleep with multiple blankets, but without blankets you’re vulnerable to monsters.

20. When you wake up to let the dogs out before the sun rises, and it’s already 90 degrees outside.

21. Remembering walking into the flower cooler at the old Marsh on a hot summer day just to cool off. RIP Marsh.

22. Humidity making your hair look like you were electrocuted.

23. The look on your face when you get your A/C bill in an Indiana August.

24. When it’s humid in the the parking lot and the air conditioning in a store hits you like a freezing cold hurricane.

26. Having to take every single side street to get where you’re going because … construction.

27. When you just took a shower but walked outside, and you’re already sweating.

28. When the car breathes hot fire air on you for a minute when you turn on the A/C full blast.

29. Buying stock of the “good ice” from Lexi’s Drink Barn.

30. You ask Cone Palace to make your shake extra thick so it doesn’t melt before you make it back home.

31. Your friends want to plan an end-of-summer trip but you just want to stay home in the AC.

32. When you wore light-colored jeans to an outdoor lunch and you’re afraid to stand up because it’s going to look like you peed your pants.

33. You try to play it cool when someone stops you in the parking lot to chat on your way into the Meijer.

34. You consider leaving your kids at school after seeing the atrocious school pick-up line.

35. For once, you’re actually hoping one of those wild kids at Kokomo Beach would splash you.

36. You lowkey compete against all other parents, because your kid comes home from school talking about what another kid had in his lunchbox.

37. Your city mascot should really be a traffic cone.

38. Your kids force you to go to a pop-up carnival in random parking lots throughout the city.

39. When it’s just too hot to stand in line for a Dan’s Donut.

40. Trying to get your hands on some green tomatoes before the end of the season but Kroger has been sold out for weeks.

41. When people won’t stop trying to give you zucchini and red tomatoes from their garden.

42. Frozen Custard becomes a staple part of your diet.

43. Contemplating whether all the time your kid has been spending at Kokomo Beach still counts as a bath.

44. Going down the big metal slide at Highland Park in mid-August.

45. When you’re walking through downtown Kokomo and cooling off at the fountain at City Hall is sounding like a good idea.

46. When your friends have had one too many drinks and suggest a round of corn hole on the patio at Sun King in the heat.

47. Kayaking in the Wildcat Creek sounds like a good idea.

48. When you finish grilling for the family in the blistering August heat.

49. When you and your friends have enjoyed your last concert of the summer season on the Ruoff lawn.

50. Knowing that even though August in Indiana can be unbearable, you’ll regret wishing away the summer during that Indiana winter.

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