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Our cloudy day with occasional drizzle keeps me thinking about rain, and attitudes toward it. On one side is the “Oh hell” it’s spoiling my fun, there’s being caught in a sudden downpour, unprepared (no raincoat, no umbrella) where you have to decide whether to run to get back to your car, duck into a fast food place to wait it out, hold a newspaper or shopping bag over your head, that sort of thing.
There’s having to get drenched because time constraints don’t allow you to avoid getting soaked, that sort of thing. Some days it’s obvious. It’s going to rain, you’re going to wear a raincoat and take an umbrella, and probably be late for your appointment. Traffic may be fouled up.
Much of our attitudes are governed by our basic feelings about rain. Welcome? Plans spoiler? “Singing in the Rain”? Good for the garden? Annoyance? Lovely soothing sound on the roof? You could come up with more, but probably never gave a thought to such a thing as how you feel about rain. Outdoors there are increasing patches of blue sky, so perhaps it’s all over anyway.
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