I laughed at the gods of weather today and openly defied the obvious signs of heavy rain and went back to town this afternoon (my wife neglected to me her half of the shopping list), mocking the heavy dark clouds and the winds.  “Blow winds with all your might,” I said.  “Dark clouds, make the day a black as pitch with your blocking of the sun’s rays,” I bellowed, laughing hysterically and getting really strange looks from passers-by.  “You will not fool me again, you hussy of weather!”

My daughter and I got to town with the clouds getting darker and small drops of water falling gently.  “Is that all you got,” I mocked.  While inside we could hear the rain pounding on the roof of the building.  The parking lot was drenched in water, yet the rain had ended. “Missed me, missed me, nana-a-booboo,” I taunted.

A little splattering of rain hit my car, I was not impressed.  I went out to get some fast food before heading home.  This little sprinkle is nothing, a pittance.

On our way home, the road disappears in a white sheet of water.  For twenty miles the visibility is about ten feet.  I pull close to the door when we get home so my daughter will not get too wet.  I unloaded the car with buckets of water pouring on me by the second.  I am a walking wet towel by the time everything is in the house.

Then the rain stops and hasn’t rained since.

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