My mom had constantly wanted to go to Jacksonville to visit my daughter, however my buddy and I drove down over the Summer and spent a couple of weeks there.
Mom wasn’t prepared for the Summer heat of Jacksonville, FL, then the first evening my buddy and I got there, my granddaughters were in the pool, and it was 3AM.
Mom was distraught the kids weren’t in bed, and more distraught they were allowed to swim in the dark. My child assured her it was hot enough, and they had enough light to light up the entire deck, it was still eighty degrees out, and I was trying to get mom inside so she could lay down in the a/c. I had been to Jacksonville several times, however never to their modern home. My child was distraught to show it off, and wanted to take mom and I sightseeing later that afternoon. The ladies were already in the pool, and mom was ready to go to the mall. My buddy and I walked around the mall where there was a lot of a/c, however mom almost fainted when my buddy and I got back outside. The heat was so unbearable I had to take her back inside while my child brought the car around. My mom had once said she wouldn’t transfer to FL, and even though my child now lived in Jacksonville, she had changed her mind! She liked it back home more than she liked Jacksonville. The a/c in their household was so poor, that even with the temperature set at sixty-eight, there was no way mom could be comfortable. I knew it was the wrong thing to bring her to Jacksonville, FL in the summer, when mom was ninety.