Rainy Morning Commute

This morning I left my place with the thoughts of “Oh good, the storms have let up just in time for me to get to the subway.”  Then halfway up the block it began raining, I’m talking big grapefruit sized droplets of water.  Immediately I popped open my umbrella and was very amused by this rain.  I thought about how if I didn’t have to go to work I would love to just walk around getting soaked all day the way I did as a teenager, and happily kept going to the subway.

Then with only the small block to go to the subway entrance, the clouds grew angry, and parted ways to the point that the Hudson River was sucked up into the sky, and was now falling onto my umbrella.  Thankfully I had my raincoat on as well, which I find to be the best purchase that I have ever made in my life, so only my sneakers and about the bottom foot of my jeans got soaked – yeah, I’m wearing sneakers and jeans to work today, in the name of charity.

Then a few stops into my ride on the R Train, a guy walked onto the car soaked, head to toe as if he just got thrown into a pool on his way to work.  I looked at him, wondered what type of idiot he was, how he was going to never dry out before 3PM, how his glasses were full of water and his hair was soaked to the point that he looked like a five year old boy. 

I thought about how everyone that worked with him was probably going to laugh inside their heads at him each time he passed.  I thought about how it was possible for a grown man who obviously works in an office that isn’t a dress down type of office could not own an umbrella.  How each and every commuter on the way to work today was going to see him, and think to themselves “idiot.” 

I thought about how when this guys boss sees how wet his employee is, they were going to open his employee file, find the line that questions “Weird? & Idiot? Scale 1 – 10?” and that “7” & “10” was most definitely going to be circled today.  I thought about how he must be the only one to be dumb enough to do such a thing today. 

Then I got into work, I read ZFS*, and laughed, as it gave me a moment of clarity of possible reasoning behind the subway guy’s lack of an umbrella.

*Seriously, I was going to write a post about soaking wet guy on my commute this morning, and ZFS just happened to have a post about being that guy.  In no way am I meaning to attack or badmouth him in any way.