, you cant be anything but excited about everything. It seems like the whole world is blossoming and going towards something great. It feels like you cant really fail in anything and that everything has been as great as always. These are the feelings of a young man on the verge of summer.
I know that summer starts when I can start looking after ice cream shops around the city and just wait for the perfect weather to pop the roof up. When I bought the convertible, I just thought about the days when its sunny and didnt even remember the whole winter. Why should I have thought about it? Now that the summer is almost here, it is like nobody remembers a thing about winter anymore.
When I changed my tyres (in Finnish: renkaat) to a brand new set of summer tyres last week, I knew that was it. The speed limits on the highways would come up in a few weeks and its just a matter of days when girls start wearing short skirts and the beaches start to fill up with the brave ones. The whole magic about summer is the fact that there is always something to wait for and still it feels so relaxed. Almost everyone has a summer holiday or plans of some sort and they usually involve some relaxing or thrill, depending on the person.
My top of summer holiday is when I go to Seinjoen vauhtiajot. That is a street racing event held in August where you meet people alike and you can even show off a bit. The smell of burned rubber and fuel fill the air and you can feel the excitement all the time around you.
Thats actually why I also change my summer tyres once a year. I usually wear them out during the weekend. I have over 500 horsepower under my convertibles hood and it requires some serious grip from Hakkapeliitta every summer. That has also become a nice ritual for me and I always use the same shop for changing the tyres.