Rain is Wet!

[Zaiida]

I handed her the cloth, and watched as her and her friend struggled to wipe down the table. I also noticed them look up at the sky a few times, as if they were wondering "Where on Earth is this water coming from??"

I...err...hmm (tilts head sideways) still makes no sense that way either. Good grief she's dumber than I am and my nickname is Miss Oblivious.

It's like when I watch my dog sit outside in the rain, run back in and shake herself dry and run back outside to get rained on again and looking completely bewildered that she keeps getting wet.

Rain=water=wet. Simple but oh so hard for some.

[Blade_Raver]

Oh so much fun can be had with this.

"Okay. You stop the rain and I'll wipe off the table. K-Ready-Go. *stare at SC with expectation for 2 seconds* C'mon hurry up! I have a table to wipe down here! Make that rain stop!"

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*Put a block under the table leg opposite a seated patron*
"Sorry, I can't fix stupid."

[bhskittykatt]

I saw this happen at the BEACH. I'm in the water, it's sunny, and it starts to drizzle. Maybe a few harder drops. People were FLEEING the ocean screaming, "I'm getting wet!" over and over. I looked at them with a while enjoying the ocean waves.

And no, there was no dangerous weather. Just rain.

It always bewilders my friends, coworkers, and guests at the motel when I swim in the pool while it's raining. Like, what's wrong if I swim while it's raining? I'll get wet? OMG no that can't be! </sarcasm> I never got the aversion to it.

[EricKei]

Like, what's wrong if I swim while it's raining? I'll get wet? OMG no that can't be! </sarcasm> I never got the aversion to it.

Only really unsafe if there's any lightning/thunder -- which, technically, could be just about ANY raincloud -- hence the, at times, overabundance of caution.

[dalesys]

A little while later, a female customer stormed up to the bar.

FSC: I just sat down on the benches outside and got all wet!

Does Sheldons want to take this one, or should I?

You take it.
Not Sheldonrs's area of expert tease.
And I'm too rusty.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Something like this? Dollar Bank actually sponsored two of these for Dinomite Days in 2003. One is at the corner of Penn and Braddock Avenues--I see it every day as I drive to and from work

I have seen that one on my trips to Pittsburgh. I wondered where it came from.

[DeltaSierra]

I can't remember, is it turkeys, chickens or both that you can't leave out in rain because they just stare straight up with their mouths open until they drown?

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/turkey.asp

[Andara Bledin]

I'd have posted the Snopes link if I hadn't been beaten to it.

^-.-^

[Seshat]

Only really unsafe if there's any lightning/thunder -- which, technically, could be just about ANY raincloud -- hence the, at times, overabundance of caution.

True, but I've seen it myself. People who are saying 'but you'll get wet', not 'there might be lightning'.

Lightning is a VERY valid reason to get out of water.

[EricKei]

People who are saying 'but you'll get wet', not 'there might be lightning'.

Ahh, I see.

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That's two things in this thread so far that make me weep for the human race.

[Kristev]

When it rains here, the dubmbunnies think it's a major disaster. And should it ever happen to snow . . .

The CSM team tends to demand the trolleys get dried off before they're used. But because they refuse to schedule enough people on any day except Friday (the day they have to catch up on everyone's hours), they don't see why no one ever has time to do it.

But rain is hardest on the janitorial team, because we're supposed to have supplies in the side closets to handle rain. What does mismanagement do? Pretends there won't be any rain and has the supplies moved to the back of the store. Shortly afterwards, it never fails, there's a big rain storm and the supplies can't be found.

[BamaBabe]

Most of the UK is not this stupid! Honest!

Stupid is rampant all over the globe. Hopefully, not all of the world is this stupid.

[Rapscallion]

I also work at a supercenter. Eveytime it rains we have a few people always complain its wet. We even had people ask if we can make it stop.

Gah - memories of the weather whiners at my place.

"It's raaaaaiiinninggggg..."

"Yes. Yes it is."

See those sheets of glass at the front of the shop? I can see through them and the current weather conditions are evident. Thanks for stating the sodding obvious.

Had one really whining once.

"Someone should do something about this weather!"

"I'd write a letter of complaint if I were you."

"Yes! I'll ... do that?"

I think we lost her trade, but the moment of realisation that nobody was going to hold her hand and turn off the rain switch and make it all better was worth it.

Rapscallion

[Kristev]

I'm often inclined to tell people who complain because the weather isn't sunny and warm that they can "Go complain to Morgan La Faye."

But then, I'm also the person who believes the shoppers at my job should leave at once and go straight to K-Mart.

[Shalom]

There was a Peanuts comic many years ago (so long ago, in fact, that Snoopy still walked on four legs) with no dialog at all.

It's pouring rain. Snoopy is racing along through the rain from one awning to the next, shadowing people under their umbrellas, doing everything he can to keep dry... until he finally gets to his doghouse, climbs up on the roof and goes to sleep. In the rain.