Musing In The Rain

The other day when I was walking home from the gym I happened to spy the most peculiar thing at one street corner. Let me set the stage for this bizarre event by telling you that it was dull, dreary, and most importantly a very rainy day. As I stood waiting for the light of the intersection to change I glanced to my left and noticed that out front of a fairly large apartment building a man was standing and using a hose. Upon further inspection I noted several weird things about the situation. Here they are in order of weirdness, with an accompanying rating on the scale of 1 - Weird.

1. The guy was wearing only a small T-shirt in pouring rain - 1
2. The guy was using a super-extra-strength-double-decker hose - 2 point Strange
3. The guy was watering something with said hose in pouring rain - 5 and 1/2 Odd
4. The guy was not in fact watering anything organic or alive, but instead drenching a puddle in the middle of the asphalt - 8 dash Bizarre
5. The guy was watering a chunk of pavement, and mostly a puddle for that matter, in POURING RAIN, with a gigantic hose while wearing only a T-shirt - 10 decimal Mind-Blowingly Unbelievable

Rather than continue the journey home once my chance to cross the street came, I decided to remain at the corner for a little while to see if I could gain a little more understanding as to the point of this guy's endeavour. Alas, I learned nothing, except that toting a fire hose in a small T-shirt is a good way to pick up passing girls despite the fact the use of both items is straight up crazy; lesson learned.

I then spent some time on my walk home thinking of what some other pointless/weird things to do during a downpour would be. Here is a list:

• Wash a car, especially one that didn't belong to you
• Dry clothes on a clothesline, particularly if they were already dry
• Make a fire, extra points for not using gasoline, a lighter, or matches
• Sweat
• Wear sunglasses
• Have a competition with a friend to see who can stay dry longest outside
• Tan
• Build a sandcastle
• Try not to grow an entire army of Sea Monkeys
• Complain about how hot and sunny it is outside
• Write a treasure map revealing the location of millions of dollars using washable marker on toilet paper
• Wish aloud that the ongoing drought would stop

I can't wait to see what strange things I witness the next time it rains in Kingston, which will probably be about two minutes ago.

Matt, the guy who dislikes Lake Effect Precipitation... unless it's snow... in that case he's okay with it.