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To Wish For Rain, Thunderbolts and Lightning?

11 replies

MitziK · 17/07/2019 19:22

Sports Day tomorrow.

Compulsory standing in a field with no shade for 4-5 hours whilst children who are still wandering into school wearing fucking Puffa Jackets are told it's Really a Jolly Good Jape to take part in an Egg & Spoon Race (yep, they're doing the sort of events that Primaries don't).

These are kids who can run like shit off a shovel if they feel like it usually in the opposite direction to anybody in authority. They're not going to be impressed that their £150 running spikes, bought by their Mums for the All-Important Sports Competition of the Year, will only see action in the three-legged race. And no parents are invited, anyhow.

Quite frankly, I don't want to do it. But it's compulsory. Even though I've got a fuckton of things I have to do before leaving work (forever, it's my last day of employment on Friday).

It's been overcast all afternoon and my head is banging.

If it pisses down, I get to stay in my office and actually get my work done. It needs to be seriously dramatic rain, though. Because half of them will still be wearing the sodding Puffa Jackets.

And my garden needs watering.

Fuck it, I'm doing a Rain Dance.

OP posts:
Bambamber · 17/07/2019 19:45

YANBU my flowers need some rain and my water butt needs filling. Plus I'm pregnant and miserable in the heat. I could quite happily dance naked in the rain

WhentheRabbitsWentWild · 17/07/2019 19:47

YANBU at all .

It is so humid here and has been for days . Dark clouds look quite promising right now though..

Likethebattle · 17/07/2019 19:51

Cone to Scotland. It’s been passing all day in the trossachs!

Likethebattle · 17/07/2019 19:51

*pissing all day

thewayoftheplatypus · 17/07/2019 19:59

YABU but only because it’s my son’s second ever sports day tomorrow and the novelty of watching him running around with his new friends hasn’t worn off yet! (I hope you get your rain though OP)

Beekeeper1 · 17/07/2019 20:11

Yes please, the land is parched, we desperately need some of that previous, life giving stuff from God's watering can - thunder, lightning and a jolly good storm would be a bonus, just for the entertainment value, let alone breaking the vile heat and humidity. Bamberbamber, according to my mum, that is exactly what I did do as a small child...mind you, we did live in a very rural and isolated location, so nobody nearby to be traumatised by such a sight!

elfycat · 17/07/2019 20:37

But but but...

Thunderbolts and Lightening are very very frightening!

Apparently.

Beekeeper1 · 17/07/2019 20:53

...precious, not previous! Fat fingers typographic error!!

MitziK · 17/07/2019 21:28

Part of me wants to see the Puffa jacketed angels frightened by them. Can't imagine them calling for Galileo, though (sadly). Stormzy, perhaps.

[which reminds me of a pub garden long ago in a town far, far, away, where torrential storms rendered the fundraising gig silent for health & safety reasons - I conducted the entire garden in a spirited, but ultimately very soggy, rendition of the entire song, complete with four part harmonies and three guys playing air guitar solos on the tables as others did the guitar-y noises].

Still murkier than Hades here. Suppose I'll have to dance some more. I draw the line at sacrificing chickens, though - throwing half a pot of out of date hummus in the bin counts, doesn't it? It does contain chick peas and probably salmonella by now.

OP posts:
elfycat · 17/07/2019 22:45

I have some leftover cooked chicken from Sunday that needs to hit the bin. I'm happy to make a sacrifice on your behalf.

I'm peri-menopausal and I can't tell where the hormones end and the summer begins.

recklessruby · 17/07/2019 23:06

Normally I would say yanbu as i hate humid sticky weather but i dont want rain.
Its our whole school picnic tomorrow on the field which will be lovely. If it rains its in the rotten smelly canteen which is sticky and hot

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