gonna get my money's worth

I sat outside to do some reading today, just to prove I could. This mentality must help to explain why Vancouverites are so keen to sit on patios, porches, and various outdoor cafe set-ups, even in the harshest monsoon downpours. If they can find a tiny perch that isn't getting completely drenched, you can be sure to see people sipping their lattes outside, despite the fact that its really very cold, their hands are turning blue, and their newspaper keeps blowing away. Its also obligatory to maintain a rudy good disposition about all of this, as if to underline how nice the weather is in Vancouver. Its like Canadians abroad trying to prove how immune to the cold they are. These hapless idiots won't wear hats or gloves for anything, unless it gets to be at least ten degrees colder than it does at home. Or who sit out in Parisian cafés, sticking to the metal chairs and loudly exhorting everyone to join them. Or maybe they're just Vancouverites.