CALL ME SNAKE

The funny thing about rain today–well actually yesterday-well actually there were a couple of funny things about rain, today or yesterday. First, he game for the girls soccer team I coach was called on account of rain but ironically the sun came out at around the time we were supposed to start playing and it stayed beautiful for hours on a day that was supposed to be a complete washout. (How did I know that? STORMTRACK 5 told me.) Another friend of mine coached soccer today (his game wasn’t cancelled) and he got a sunburn! Later in the afternoon, we went from sunny, summery weather to the cool chill of a thunderstorm. After that storm abated, I suggested to my daughter’s friend that we’d better bike to her home now so we don’t get rained on. But the girls were too busy with a beading craft and I could not prevail. Finally, by the time we started back on bike, the thunder and lightning were coming heavy. “I think we’re going to beat the rain!” my daughter’s friend called over the thunder. We pedaled fiercely and when we reached her house she cried: “We beat the rain! We beat the rain!”

“That’s great,” I said, but I still had the ride home and knew I would not be so lucky this time around. A second later, the deluge began and your humble narrator got soaked. This is the soggy tale that later emerged from his febril mind.