23rd of April

Day one

First up, to be brutally honest, I'm not sure what I've let myself in for.  I started this blog to give me a space to talk about whatever I want.  So don't say I didn't warn you when you realise how much waffle I actually waffle.


I'm male, nearly twenty and at uni with exams just around the corner.  I don't know whether I started this for distraction or sanity.  Either way, I don't know where it's going...


Anyhow, today was wet.  Surprisingly wet.  Even though just about every weather station and forecast was telling me the same thing, I was still perplexed when I stepped outside and into a puddle.  This phenomenon didn't just happen once, but every time I stepped out of a building, causing me no end of grief.  That and forgetting to buy onions, but that's another story.


Today is about rain.  Rain is wet, and today it was wet and cold.  A gruesome combination if ever I did see one.  However, this rain was not the torrential downpour most often associated with rain, nor the fine mist or drizzle, but a half arsed attempt at something in between.  There was no respite from this downpour, and it made for grim viewing.  I for one don't mind the rain, but there are many things about rain that I don't like:

• People with pansy collapsible umbrellas.  Why get an umbrella that is going to curl up on you at the first sign of wind?  You might as well use a piece of paper for all the good its going to do you.  The fact that they are easy and convenient to store?  Once they are wet, who wants to put them in a bag?!  On the bus, you shake them out before you step on, drenching the person next to you, then proceed to stand with it dripping on the poor soul sat in the seat below.  Use a real man's umbrella, or face the rain full on with nought but the hair on your head!

• Puddles.  Step in one of these blighters and chances are that any waterproofing you shoe has, no matter how good, will be undone when the water flows in over the top.

• People using folders/books/paper as shelters.  It's just going to ruin said item!  Why do it?

• Congregation in inopportune places.  Ie the library.  When I go into the library to work, I do not appreciate have to wade through groups of wet people just sheltering from the wet.  Granted, they are sheltering from the wet, but if they are sheltering in the library, then maybe they could shelter and do some work, rather than sheltering for shelterings sake.

• Rust.  Water makes things rust.  Rusting makes things useless!!

These are just a few of the gripes I have with rain.

Well, that is all I want to say on the subject of rain, so I shall call it in here and drift serenely off to sleep to the sound of raindrops on my window outside, ripe in the knowledge that tomorrow is likely to bring yet more misery to the masses as the skies open and bring forth water from above.

Joe out.