It’s raining. Not a big deal, right? All my life I was never really bothered by rain. It didn’t really affect me, until I came to college.
In college, if it’s raining your day is almost always virtually ruined. Why? Campus is huge and umbrellas suck, thats why!
In high school, rain didn’t put a damper on my parade. Why? Because in high school, if it’s raining you can just stay inside. No big deal! Or just sit around in the cafeteria. No one gets wet and everyone is happy!
Because in high school, there’s no need for umbrellas or rain jackets or rain boots. Wow! Were those the days. But in college, if the forecast is looking grim, that means at the beginning of the day you have to put your best slicker suit and hope that the looming torrential downpour doesn’t make you late to class.
Once you’ve taken the extra ten minutes to put on your rainboots, a rain jacket and find your umbrella you’re probably already running late. So before your day has even started, Mother Nature is already sticking it to you.
And don’t even get me started on rain boots! Have you ever driven a car in rain boots? It’s terribly uncomfortable. Oh but wait, it gets better. Your rain boots are full of rain? Ah. The best! There’s nothing better than sitting in an overly air-conditioned college class room in sopping wet socks. Could you be any more #blessed?
But wait! You have a rain jacket! Shouldn't you be dry? In theory you would be… but then you realize that your rain jacket is only so long so your legs and maybe even your pants (If you’re lucky!!) are sopping wet as well. And maybe even if you’re extra extra lucky your pants are a light color, so since they’re wet, you look like you peed on yourself!
Don’t forget your umbrella! Truly, umbrellas are just one big huge tease as well. They give you such great hope until they turn on you as soon as a small gust of wind turns up. So then you’re stuck standing in the rain with an inside-out umbrella! What could be better? Or you could just bring your mom’s biggest, most obnoxious umbrella to school. Then you’ll be dry. But you’ll also look like you’re carrying a walking stick around campus. So, there’s that.
And then there’s trying to actually get to class… whether you’re walking, driving or taking the bus… it’s just picking the lesser of all evils.
If you’re walking to class, you’re getting wet. There is no question.
If you’re getting on the bus, you’ll get wet and then sit on the bus in your wet and everyone else’s too. And the bus probably smells like wet dog, so that’s another plus!
And if you’re driving? Sucks for you! The commuter parking lots are easily 100 miles away at least so good luck getting through all those puddles without getting drenched.
A rainy day in college isn’t the end of the world, but it surly isn’t much better. Which is why rain is my biggest enemy.
