Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Seriously, stop.

I'm all for the cinematic quality the rain lends to certain situations. And as London exemplifies, even entire cities can become more charming with a natural shower. But I won't be standing outside blasting Peter Gabriel from a radio anytime soon, and San Francisco sucks in the rain.
The original slogan for Rice 'a Roni was actually, "San Francisco sucks in the rain" but the executives were all, that doesn't do much for the rice, so they changed it. But honestly, one more day of this and I'm going to break.
What kills me most is that people refuse to change their pace in relation to the bad weather. My personal curse is that i'm always stuck behind zig-zag walkers. Those people who stroll aimlessly one way, and then, nope, decide to go back the other way. Just in case you were wondering, they're the worst people in the world.
Zig-Zaggers with carts in the grocery store? The worst.
Zig-Zaggers on train platforms. The worst.
Zig-Zaggers with umbrellas in the rain? These people are like presidents of the club.
And I feel like it's gotta be a club. Only, how they ever get to the meetings is beyond me.
'Hey there friend, going to the meeting?'
'Well, I'd like to, but it's about 12 ft away so I don't think I'll be there on time.'
But why must the slowest people who chose to walk in S-formations always have the biggest umbrellas?? If it's not already hard enough to get around them on a sunny day, now you have this huge obstacle to contend with. It's like a really messed up version of Double Dare designed specifically to piss people off. And the physical challenge is just to see if you can go 3 blocks without kicking them.
Oh, man.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

winter rain is my favorite part of the year. of course you guys had a pretty dry winter so now you're really getting it.

Jess said...

thanks. thanks for that.