↑ Upside

• Still time to patch it up with crazy yacht-owning uncle before Blues Festival
• No one live-tweeting political conventions this time around
• Prozac prescription just ran out anyway
• Tears from people complaining about the heat oh so thirst quenching
• Summer vacation puts child labor laws in new light
• Tiny pours at summer beer fests prepare you for future rationing
• Of course no one peed in the pool

↓ Downside

• Last six months of procrastinating yard work seems like a bad idea now
• Trespassers won’t stay away from your personal public swimming holes
• Friends definitely having more fun than you 
• Any work absence now looks suspicious
• Shirts off for everyone! (Everyone.)
• All those Tour de France cosplayers
• Bryan Adams unlikely to memorialize this one