How is the Heat?

It's been a little warm lately. The kind of warm that puts a smile on your face b/c you know you won't be spending forever in hell. Sounds a little odd but it's really that hot here.

What I love is that every time I go to visit someone they ask me 'How is the heat?' Really it starts with 'how are you?' and them moves to 'how are: your family, your friends, your health, your situation, your work, your life, your friends, etc.' It can really go on like that for a while, especially when I answer every question with a 'good' and then repeat the question back to them, as is only polite.

After a few minutes of all that there comes this pause, about 15 seconds of silence, and it never fails that the silence is broken with 'and how is the heat?'. Now given that I've answered every question up to this point with a 'good' they're probably expecting another good, right? Well I don't want to lie and I don't want to tell the truth and say it's miserable so I always answer with 'it came'.

Not really funny, at least I don't really think so, but for them it's as if I had just said the funniest thing they've ever heard. They just laugh and laugh. Then 30 minutes later when another visitor comes they go through their greetings and then they don't have that awkward 15 seconds of silence because they just break right into 'I asked her how the heat was and she said it came!!!'. Then they laugh for a while. And then the next visitor comes...I think you see where I'm going with this.

Really, I'm a funny girl. Not so much in English but in Arabic, apparently, I could be a comedian.