Drenched

[ladysprite]

There comes a point, while running repeatedly in and out of one's car in the middle of a heavy rainstorm, when it ceases to be worth the effort to run, and you just accept that you are going to be soaked to the skin, and embrace it.

At that point, however, you are still faced with the challenging decision as to whether it is better to just saunter through the downpour and accept a few moments of looking cool in exchange for driving home with dripping hair and arms, or try to run anyway for the benefit of splashing as vehemently as possible into as many puddles as you can, leaving you with significant sock-squelch.

Me, I alternated between the two.

My only regret is that I missed the chance to do this during the half-hour while the sky was an alarming shade of forest-green. Storm skies like that don't come along every day.....

Comments

[arachne8x.livejournal.com]

Nice. I would have done the same had it not been so cold. I was just thinking of frolicking in a rainstorm earlier today.

[leanne-opaskar.livejournal.com]

There's not a prayer that you or someone you know took a picture of the sky? I would love to see that. Storms out here don't do that. (:

(And for the record, I'm all for splashing in puddles at that point. (; Really taunt people who've forgotten the pleasure.)

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

I was just surprised by how far the temperature dropped, I hadn't taken a jacket this morning... (and I missed the green phase somehow. Foo.)

[lakshmi-amman.livejournal.com]

You forgot the "I'm Wet Dance" - it involves both puddle splashing and a certain dorky je ne sais quois perpetuated by waving one's arms and singing "wet! wet! I am very wet!" by splashing about.

Free therapy I tell you.

[charisma18.livejournal.com]

This may sound less deep than I think and may indeed just sound dumb, but I was caught in a rainstorm a few months back and had this zen moment of enlightment:

Rain ceases to bother you the moment you stop caring about getting wet.

'Deep' or 'duh,' I'm not sure. But appropos, anyway.