Sick of wasting my life because of the rain

[GoodnightAdeline]

I don’t care how many people say ‘it was always like this..’ yes it rained a lot when I was a kid but now it does nothing BUT rain.

I swear to God out of the last 30 days we have had 1 or maybe 2 where it wasn’t fucking raining. And they’re always midweek.

I feel like all we do is sit inside going stir crazy waiting for the rain to stop. I have 2 small children and while they’re desperate to go to the park/beach, even they’re not keen in a torrential downpour with everything covered in mud.

I’m sick of all my plans being cancelled, staring out of the window at depressing grey skies and trying to figure out how to pass the weekend without spending a ton of cash on expensive (and brief) indoor activities.

It’s driving me fucking crazy and not an exaggeration to say it’s sending me into some kind of low level depression. 🍷

I live in the Lake District which is recognised as one of the wetter regions of the UK. My step tracker app doesn't lie!

I think it's more bonkers to say youre wasting your life cos of rain

I felt amazing after and then in another 10 minute stop in the rain I went and picked up dog poo.

I am sold on the rain now! 😍

Dog poo always gets worse in the rain. I reckon some lazy people tell themselves that it just gets washed away and leave it.

When it comes to the weather, we all get what we get. No-one gets to pick and choose what the weather does.

My parents got married in April in the 1970s. It snowed.

@taxguru

I live in the Lake District which is recognised as one of the wetter regions of the UK. My step tracker app doesn't lie!

What's your step tracker app and the fact that you live in the Lake District got to do with the constant rain on the west coast of Scotland?

😂😂

One day of rain in between a sunny day and then a dry day, with sunny spells for the rest of the week?

It’s been raining for weeks, months. That screengrab was a snap shot of today. There are pictures of sunshine with the RAIN for the rest of the week, pictures of the sunshine which seldom materialises.

Really glad you’ve been having lovely, dry sunny days though!

It says no rain on Sunday, but I would bet my life savings that it'll still rain - it just might not be torrential. There is nothing enjoyable or non-miserable about this, absolutely nothing.

Then why did it have "today" with the sun symbol? You took that screenshot yesterday, when it was apparently sunny.

I haven't been having lovely dry sunny days. Where did I say that?

The problem is a lot of places need a good stretch of sunny days to let the ground dry out. A couple of hours of sun between rainy days doesn't cut it.

What a crackers thread. It's like all the Insta Gingerbread Latte crew have risen up and gone rogue. "Snuggle up and curl one out on the sofa with your kids, you twat"; "Splash your pram in that fucking puddle, thicko", for 33 pages.

OP this has been an exceptionally wet winter and it really feels like it's been going on far too long now. Our local park has been underwater for three months, there's been intermittent flooding - on pretty much every road out of town at some point, and the sky has been relentlessly grey. I definitely hear your feeling of being trapped - there have been many days when I've felt surrounded by water and all of my regular outdoor activities have been affected - my allotment flooded, my walking group has abandoned trips due to finding ourselves sinking in mud, several local events were cancelled due to flooding. No amount of demented chanting about appropriate clothes from the Barbour wellies crowd makes a difference to any of that. It's been miserable.

Yes the sun shone yesterday but with a biting wind, but that was okay as there was no rain. That was one nice day! I am not lying when I state the rain has been relentless for months.

May I ask what point you’re trying to make here?

Better than inside moping 😂👍

There is no such thing as the wrong clothes, just the wrong weather!

Where I am it is yet again going to rain all week and possibly next week too. It is awful and not usual. I cannot remember the last time it rained so much. It is so, so depressing.

Nope - some of us are just able to make the best of bad situations, something you should really try considering you’ve found fault in absolutely every poster who has tried to give you helpful advice.. Lockdown walks with my best friend (in my bubble), come rain or shine were always a highlight of my day. Life was at a slower pace and I still miss being able to get out for quality time with her in nature so often. Nice try though OP!

Had it snowed almost every day prior to that for months? Did they enjoy a decent summer the year before and after their wedding?

It was lockdown that has probably put me off rainy outing with the kids completely. I'm just remembering all the well intentioned advice about puddlesuits and hauling even more kit out with me. Nothing made it not awful.

Yeah, that second lockdown when the weather was shit. That was tough.

well yes, in 1930’s Harlem, clearly we missed the metaphor
and major figure or not…
this reads as though it is written by a schoolchild trying
too hard to please teacher, in a small town in the wake
of the American dust bowl drought, somewhere on a dusty
plain, desperate for rain, fantasising the feel and effects of
rain, without considering the drawbacks, 3 small children,
dog, stroller, wellies, coats, all in a small hallway, daily

it’s also fine not to appreciate having your choice of ‘poem’
forced upon our soaking wet sensibilities
and to not be patronised by your notion of rain ‘metaphors’

I like the rain if I’m staying in the house on my own.

It’s rubbish when you’ve got young children, I don’t want to be cold and getting wet but I’m also fed up of spending the day at the soft play. I have a baby and pre schooler so can’t go to many places like the cinema/ swimming (which would be a change) unless there is another adult.

I think it’s been a lot wetter than previous springs - there are some fields around us that are prone to having noticeable bits flooded occasionally, and even when there’s been a few days with no rain they’re still flooded. Or when the flooding does finally go, it’s back after a day of rain, where it would normally take days to be that saturated.

I’m definitely looking forward to it being a bit brighter.

Is it? I think everyone understands that OP was indulging in a little hyperbole there. It’s quite clear that she, like many of us, is Sick Of Rain! That’s entirely reasonable.

Why can’t people just allow someone a little moan?! You’re not making it rain less by being belligerent!