Today marks an important milestone in my California adventure. This morning, I woke up, looked outside, and the ground was wet. There was freaking water outside!!
This was a first time in the 4 weeks I've been here I've seen so much as a gray cloud, and to my utter jubilance, there was water falling from the sky! Never in my life have I been so happy to not see the sun.
Ok, so maybe it wasn't that big of a deal. it was lightly raining for about 4 hours, and then the rain stopped, and the clouds slowly diminished so much that I was wearing sunglasses on my way home from work. But damn it, that rain made me happy. It reminded me of home, and the spring showers that turn my yard into mush in April and May.
And then something I think quite unique to Southern California happened. People on the highways somehow forgot how to stay in one lane, brake without swerving, or just overall drive properly.
Seriously? First, kids in Alabama had to sleep overnight at school because of an inch of snow, and now people in San Diego can't even navigate a small shower?? Seriously people, it's not that hard. You don't take hard turns, and you brake 10 feet earlier. That's it. But no, it took me an extra 15 minutes to get to work this morning. Let's put that into perspective. It took me 45 minutes, to drive a whopping 21 miles, on a 65mph freeway for 17 of those miles!
I would therefore like to amend my previous request for a recurring SoCal driving test to include driving through a puddle.
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