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[freckles_and_doubt]

It's the first proper rainy day of the season! it's been bucketing all day, and driving around the town is to invoke seventeen sorts of chaos. I took wolverine_nun and family to the airport this evening, which we agreed in retrospect was asking for trouble, the afternoon before a long weekend. I left campus at 3.45, collected them from Kenilworth, drove out to the airport, dropped them off and drove back home, arriving at 6.45. Fortunately the first real rain of the season and all the swishy noises and reflecty lights and things it brings, make me happy enough that I simply zen out, accept the traffic as inevitable, and get on with the close investigation of the inside of my skull.

I'm not sure what it is with rain: surely the mere fact of everything slowing down should not reduce a usually more or less workable traffic flow to the snarled-up horror it's been all afternoon? Not only do people slow down, but they drive like idiots, and there are definitely more of them. I think the first touch of rain makes them multiply. Just add water.

The combination of lots of driving and my usual Thursday afternoon Pitifully Small Tut of Vampiric Student Doom, means that I am very, very tired. I made a not particularly spirited attempt to go to stv's photographic exhibition, but arriving at the venue in lower Woodstock in the dark and rain with no parking, my courage failed me and I returned cravenly home. Sorry, stv. I did try.

Just because, a broken-hearted Ursula Vernon hamster. For the inordinate cute. And Flurb. For the weird.

Bunny Threat Level: aargh.

Comments

[dragonroost.livejournal.com]

Yup.
How to cause a traffic jam in Cape Town. Just through a bucket of water on somebodies windscreen and all hell breaks loose. It is like most of them have never seen water falling from the sky before.

[dragonroost.livejournal.com]

...it is 01h30 sleep is a far off dream,but my brain shut down about 5 hours ago. I beg humble forgiveness for the *through* instead of *throw*

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Granted :>. My sinus-infected brain shut down about two months ago, the only reason exhaustion-fed grammatical errors are not rife in my posts is because of sheer ingrained habit. And, yes. You'd think Capetonians would be better able to deal with water, it happens like clockwork every year, in large amounts. It's quite sweet, really. Sort of a naive surprise in the face of the odds.

[pinkthulhu.livejournal.com]

You're not the only one; here, the transport system seems constantly surprised by rain, snow, falling leaves, etc...

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Ah, but only the wrong sort of snow.

One of my favourite Harry Potter fanfic moments comes in a story featuring Draco sitting in a train which has stopped because of "a sheep lodged in the high-tension cables."

[pinkthulhu.livejournal.com]

Aah yes, the wrong snow. No explanation of what is the right snow, apparently, or why the Europeans dont get this mysterious malicious snow.

"A sheep lodged in the high-tension cables"? Did they offer free portions of delicious seared mutton as compensation? ;)