Five signs this Puget Sound heat wave is a doozy

Five signs that it’s unusually, perhaps deliriously, hot around here right now.

1 Rumors of customers asking to go through the Pink Elephant car wash in downtown Tacoma, without their cars.

2 Gov. Inslee prepares to call up National Guard reinforcements to support overworked wildland firefighters, air-conditioner technicians, ice cream truck drivers and Wild Waves attendants.

3 NRA launches a youth outreach campaign in defense of the constitutional right to bear squirt guns.

4 In a labor stoppage caused by oppressively warm working conditions, Point Defiance Zoo animals stick it to the man by lying around and doing nothing.

5 Local immigration-rights activists’ calls to “abolish ICE” are suddenly met with confusion and panic among the sweaty masses.

And a bonus midsummer Sixth Spot:

6 Washington’s congressional delegation pushes a bill requiring the Treasury Department to install a fan in the debt ceiling.