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What’s that thing called where you’re afraid of the sun? I wish there were some kind of online tool to look this sort of thing up, but for now I’m just going to have to order a dictionary of phobias from my local bookshop and wait for it to arrive.
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Okay, it’s been six-to-eight weeks, and I’ve finally discovered the name. ‘Heliophobia’.
I don’t actually have that, but I don’t like the sun. I’ve seen enough slip-slop-slap posters to know that it can do some serious harm, especially with the hijinks we’ve been getting up to destroying the ozone layer. So no, I will not come to your boating party, unless you can guarantee there will be a canopy over me the whole time.
I do wonder about the people who work outside. I work in an office near the docks, so I can see all of what goes on down there. Marine fabrication, mostly. People putting together plate aluminium boats, so that more people will go on boating parties and get burned and spend the entire next day wincing because their clothing keeps rubbing against their sunburn. Thing is, I’m actually quite fond of the ocean…at night. If more boats were made with canopies I’d be all for the experience of getting out there during the day, getting all the sweet mods- like snapper racks and small grooves for placing a bucket of ice containing drinks- and having a grand old time out on the sea.
But there’s too much sun. So much sun, all the time. Even when it’s cloudy you can still get burned, so night is the only acceptable time. Now, I’m not saying Melbourne’s stainless steel fabrication workers should become nocturnal and only work when the sun is down, but I am, actually, saying that. It’d be much safer for everyone. Or we could just support a drive for the building of canopies everywhere, so no one has to walk in the sun if they don’t want to.
-Ingrid
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