I almost always know when it’s going to rain, and I don’t even have trick knee. What I do have is weather.com, which I check the moment I wake up in the morning and before I go to bed at night.
My obsession with weather comes from the fact that I am from central Florida, which has a pretty predictable climate: Hot and humid, with a chance of hurricane. In the summer, it rains buckets every day from 3:00-3:30.
In comparison, the weather here in DC is capricious. If I don’t consult with weather.com, I might find myself wearing flip-flops in a snowstorm. But, thanks to my obsessive forecast tracking, I almost always have appropriate attire, and an umbrella on-hand in case of rain.
Unfortunately, my friends rarely do, which means that I can:
A. Use the umbrella while my friend gets soaked, which makes me look like a selfish asshole to passersby.
B. Attempt to share the umbrella with my friend, and we both get soaked.
The other day, when I was out in the rain with my friend Sybil, we first tried option B, leaving us both wet and my arm hurting. Then we moved to option A, and I felt guilty as she got increasingly cold and wet. I mentioned this to Sybil, who tried to rectify the situation by talking loudly about how she enjoys walking in the rain, every time a fellow pedestrian walked within an earshot of us.
So here’s a PSA for my DC friends: Pack an umbrella on Monday, Thursday and Friday this week. And to all my readers who are looking into buying an illegal red panda: They cost $11.95, plus shipping and handling.
4 comments:
I remember you walking with a very large rainbow umbrella tying balloons around campus for a turquoise-headed friend.
THERE, I thought, GOES A STUNNING PERSON. I WONDER IF SHE WILL EVER BE FRIENDS WITH ME...
I keep forgetting to bring umbrellas! And I keep buying them when it starts raining. I now have 5 umbrellas at home, and I fear the collection will continue to grow. I really impressed people at work the other day though when one of my 5 umbrellas matched my outfit -- pink and pink. it was a good look.
Are you really selling red pandas?
Sure enough, today I was caught helpless and wet in a random rainstorm leaving Union Station and there you were leaving the building with your umbrella ready to go. Too true!
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