The rainy season has come with it's blessings, cool weather, and it gives you an excuse to stay indoors all day. With this advantages comes disadvantages. I live in an area with with a not so good drainage system so the rain provides me with a mini swimming pool at my backyard that I didn't ask for.
I had to go out today, I usually check Google for the weather report before I leave the house. Nine out of ten times, they're wrong so I picked today as the one time google would be right. The sun was shining bright and there were no signs of rain clouds which made me believe Google's weather forecast. I was attending a meeting with some of the people I work with at a hotel that afternoon. I bathed, ate, wore my finest suit and left the house smiling. It was a 40 minute drive to where we had the meeting if I used public transport because I would have to come down from one Keke to the other.
Ten minutes into the drive, rain clouds appeared from nowhere.
Two minutes later, it was pouring down heavily. If you hear Google is suffering from a curse, I had probably caused it. I had already alighted from the Keke so I had to wait under shade until the rain reduced. I wasn't let anything bring me down. It stopped and I continued my journey. There were puddles everywhere. I wasn't familiar with this road so I didn't know which puddles were deep and which ones weren't. I walked at the edge of the road and on top some stones put there by someone who was trying to help people get across. Just then I slipped and almost fell into the puddle. Someone quickly grabbed me from behind and stopped me from falling. Not today Satan.
Thank God I didn't get my suit ruined. I knew the universe was on my side. I was almost at the hotel when heavy wind blew my papers from the file I was holding. It was a miracle none of the file entered water because there was literally water everywhere. I knew for sure now that the universe was definitely on my side. I had escaped falling and my documents were still intact.
I got to the gate of the hotel and stood there was over minute, laughing at how I had escaped everything. I should've just walked into the compound. What was I waiting for outside.
Just then I heard horning beside me. A car was passing with full speed and the driver was horning, trying to get me to move out of the way. As I turned around, the car splash rain water on my suit, the files I was holding, and my face too.
Everything I had avoided the whole day had compiled and come back to me. I should've just gone inside. The car didn't even stop to say sorry. Good thing it didn't because I was planning to hug the driver so hard with my dirty soaked body so they'll know what it feels like.
I walked into the hotel with shame. To add to my pain, the meeting had already finished.
