We're getting hit with a lot of powerful rain in Los Angeles, the most I've experienced since I moved here. This song by The Jesus and Mary Chain keeps popping up in my head--it's one of my favorites, but it's also a case where the message is completely contrary to my own inclinations. I've lived in all kinds of climates, from balmy California to the snows of Colorado & Iowa--the latter with alarming sub-sub zero temperatures, where I once waited for a bus when it was around 20 below zero. My moist mullet (I had recently jumped out of the shower) turned into a block of ice! At first I thought a bird had landed on my neck & tried batting it away, while turning in circles to see the 'bird'. I must have looked pretty odd to passers-by.
But of all the weather I've endured, the worst is the cold windswept rain we're enduring here now, where your umbrella turns upside down because of the force of the winds, giving you feeble protection against the onslaught. 2nd worst--riding a motorcycle in the rain; it feels like your getting hit with thousands of bb gun pellets. I once crashed on my motorcycle in the rain as I was about to arrive at work; a kindly paramedic, as he covered my head to protect me against the rain, said, 'Don't worry, it doesn't mean you're dead'. However, one of my coworkers passed by; when she saw me covered up next to my broken motorcycle, she freaked; I mumbled to her, from underneath the banker 'I'm OK'.
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