Route 1 readers keep cool

The ROUTE 1 World H.Q. has been SWELTERING all week!
Well, not really. We have been running the air conditioning.
The ROUTE 1 World H.Q. could have been SWELTERING all week.
Had we actually been baking, we could have used the tips provided by readers who answered this week's FRIDAY QUESTION:
"What is your best method of cooling off?"
BEKAH P. -- I crank up the AC as far as it can go. And then I sit in front of it. Not
real original, but effective. Oh, so effective!
KERSTIN H. -- Going inside and wearing as little as possible.
RICK T. -- Cranking the Air Conditioner up and laying on the couch!!!!! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
LISA Y. -- Today we hit the library and the river museum for some air conditioning!
MIKE M. -- Deep in the bowels of the 100-year-old institutions where I serve my time, each summer is freezing cold and every winter is boiling hot. I suspect administrative assistants are nearly always responsible for this bizarre yet immutable law of nature, though pleading and sobbing arouses little sympathy with them.
JOHN S. -- Air Conditioning and popsicles.
JEFF T. -- Simple. Mentally transport myself to Jan. 20, 1954 -- Rogers Pass, Mont., -- where the temp is minus-70 F! ...or mow when the sprinklers are running.
ERIK H. -- If it gets really hot, I like to take a cold bath. Sometimes, the water seems as cold as a polar plunge. The effects (possibly including mild hypothermia) certainly take the edge off the heat.