What is your favorite season? Most people would probably say Summer, Fall, or maybe Spring. What’s the right answer? None of them. In my opinion, the best season is Winter, but I’m not here to talk about that. I’m here to talk about what the wrong answer is: Spring.

Spring is the absolute worst season for so many reasons, but we are specifically going to be talking about a couple of those reasons. 

First of all: allergies. Hay fever, or seasonal allergies, affect 10%-30% of adults, and over 40% of kids in the US. That’s over 60 million people in America alone. And Spring is the season where these allergies really shine. 

Flowers start blooming, and plants start growing, which makes life harder for people with pollen allergies. Don’t get me wrong, I think flowers and greenery are pretty and everything, but it’s just uncomfortable to have itchy eyes, a runny nose, and be congested every time you step outside.

Second of all: bugs. Bees are scary. I don’t care what anyone says, and all the bees seem to come out at the exact same time in the Spring. They’re obviously very important for our planet’s survival, and I by no means wish death upon all bees, but they are still scary – even the ones that I know can’t sting me.

And besides bees, there are also a bunch of other bugs that come out in the Spring. Spiders, ants, beetles, ticks, and so many more like to enjoy the warm weather and get outside. A lot of these bugs are harmless but you can’t tell me you haven’t ever seen a spider and just been a little creeped, or scared, or grossed out by it.

Then, of course, there’s the weather. It’s warmer for sure, but it’s also not exactly shorts weather for a lot of the Spring. This, of course, is determined by your location and where you live. There are some places where it is always shorts weather, but a lot of places are still cold by the time March rolls around.

So, you end up asking yourself the questions whether or not you want to wear pants, or wear a  long sleeve shirt because you know it’s going to be freezing later, but it’s also 60 degrees outside during the day.

Besides the temperature, it is always raining in Spring. The rain can be great and calming when you’re inside sleeping or watching tv, but when you actually have to get up and out of the house in the rain it can be very annoying. Nobody really carries an umbrella with them ALL the time, so it’s pretty much you either check the weather every 10 minutes, or you get soaking wet.

Spring is also just boring, and there are no major holidays to celebrate. Once again, I am talking about the US. There are lots of winter holidays, including New Year’s and Valentine’s Day, and kids get off from school. In the fall, you’ve got Halloween and Thanksgiving, and then in the summer you got the 4th of July and 3 months off from school. But in the Spring, there is nothing. No holidays, no real breaks from school. Nothing fun happens. 

There are plenty of reasons why winter is really the best season, but it’s better for your favorite season to be Summer or Fall than Spring. I mean, Spring is just the worst.