When the weatherman says it's rainin'...

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...you won't hear ME complainin'.

Does rain really ruin your day? Is weather ever a serious impediment to your quotidian life? I've never really cared, but it's odd to hear people talk of rain ruining their weekend, etc.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 9 January 2004 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 9 January 2004 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i dont like getting caught out during torrential downpours - tho it can be fun depending on the circumstances. i remember just over a year ago some friends visited London from Chicago and it pretty much rained all week, especially on the Sunday when we went to a football match - very disappointing. i wouldn't want to visit another place and it be raining every day i'm there, that could possibly ruin my holiday.

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 9 January 2004 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

L.A. doesn't get much rain of course, so I've always craved it and always enjoy really heavy torrential downpours.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 9 January 2004 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Ditto.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 9 January 2004 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I like to stay in bed when it's really cold out.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 9 January 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

rain makes my hair frizz/curl, so i hate it.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, I forgot about the hair thing. Yes, I do tend to look a bit like a twee Wookie after a severe downpour.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Rain never bothered me until I moved to Cologne -- in that year, it rained every day from 31 October to April 15 (my boss at the time remarked "it's always lovely weather on Hitler's birthday. I don't know what this should mean.") That was a rough stretch.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I always carry an umbrella, I like rain, more than hot sunny days.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a gloomy soul.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

duuuuuude it rained all day today in rome, it was a drag. luckily we were underground for most of it, but we still got soaked. Also they are having a transportation strike today so had to walk everywhere. But otherwise I like the rain a lot, comes from growing up in the desert.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

actually it wasn't a drag at all really because I'm in rome.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I was in Rome about this time two years ago and it rained and I loved it!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 9 January 2004 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

@d@ml just wanted an excuse to use the word 'quotidian'...

You should all be sent to Sainsbury's in the rain to carry back 4 heavy bags of shopping, with no free hand to hold up an umbrella on a Saturday in London...

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 9 January 2004 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I like overcast days, and I don't mind drizzle, as long as I don't have to drive in it.

Washingtonians are lousy enough drivers without adding rain to the mix. Also, the lever on my car's heating is stuck, so the old rattletrap has air conditioning but no heat. (The garage told me that the lever was probably caught on a cable, but the labor to take down the dash would cost $600. Since I don't want to keep this car, I'm grinning and bearing the cold.)

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I love rain. For some reason I grew up in a house without umbrellas, and thought hoods/parkas/those plasticky raincoats were all stupid, so I got very used to being rained on. And it's great! Until you get home and your socks are sodden and your jeans are soaked up to the knee and your coat's drenched and some of it's seeped through to the shirt underneath, obv.

― cis (cis), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

But that's good too, cause then you peel off your wet clothes and get into a steaming hot shower and all is right in the world once again!

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

quotidian

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

When I'm warm inside there's nothing cozier than hearing the rain outside, except possibly walking through it umbrella in hand and smelling the wet pavement.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Exactly!

And then you potter about and make a cup of tea and the rain thrums down outside your window and the cars going by crackle on the tarmac and everything is wonderful.

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― cis (cis), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

smelling the wet pavement

Leee, do you crawl everywhere or something?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I could so crack a short joke right now haha.

But I won't -- it's when the ground is so saturated with rain that the smell gets carried into the air, like it's getting cleansed, and also I was trying to get all Ezra Pound for the moment.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i love overcast, drizzly days at the beach & the late afternoon electric ity of an early spring rainshowe.
being trapped inside a subway car full of wet people=dud

― kephm, Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

A "short joke"?

You mean like "(drumroll)Fart!(rimshot)"?

I think I've heard most of the good ones.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I detest getting rained on. I must be part cat.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm so predictable.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Rain is ideal weather. I wish it were raining right now.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Give me a good solid day of rain in pref to a half-hour of 35 deg C plus, anytime.

Even in places where I don't particularly like rain (eg in the city, in sports crowds, in the Sainsburys story above) I'd console myself that 'at least it isn't stinkin' hot'.

Best of all: the first fine, sunny day after a couple of days of rain. Everything seems so clean and fresh.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

totally agree with that last one

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 10 January 2004 01:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I HATE THE RAIN! AND I HATE FUCKING HOT MUGGY DAYS!

i wish it were just a little cold, kinda warm sweater weather all year long. maybe a few clouds. nothing too extreme either which way. San Francisco is good for that most of the time. except like today when i'm on my way walking to an interview running late with resume in hand, no bag, and it starts raining and me and my resume arrive all soggy. ick

― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 10 January 2004 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

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