Rain Drain

It's raining here...or rather, it just finished raining. Now it's just pretending to rain. But in the time that the rain was really doing it's stuff, it managed to leave behind quite an impression. The roads are clogged, especially AND ironically, just where ordinary mortals like yours truly have to walk on - the roadsides. Why doesn't Rain-Man ever leave the sidewalks alone? People in cars anyway donot get their feet wet. So can't he just as well wet the middle of the roads and leave them in a puddle and let pedestrians be?? I figure that that would involve redesigning the roads a wee bit. Should be making the roads concave instead of convex. Then atleast we would be walking on higher ground..quite literally too..

Everybody romanticises (HELL! Had to correct my spelling 4 times for that last word!!) rain. Especially the movie makers. Why! Right from Gene Kelly in Singing in the Rain to Raveena 'Oomph' Tandon in Mohra we have people 'doing things' in the rain. No doubt it would be a heavenly sight to see Raveena or Sreedevi or more contemporaneously, Bipasha (I melt!)in a saree and doing their tantalizing rain dance( Funny thought though, I always thought rain dances were meant to invoke rain.). But if any of them were to attempt any such thing in real life, then they are more likely to get mud splashed all over them. Or if at all they manage to find a lonely park to dance in, then they are very likely to find the whole place water logged. And there would NEVER EVER be a cave for them to dry off in. AND DON'T EVEN THINK OF A PILE OF MAGICAL DRY LOGS TO BEAT THE COLD.

And now that I think of it, you even have nursery rhymes to support you..the one which starts with,

Rain, rain, go away,
Come again another day,
Little Johny wants to play"

Sure, the rain has it's beauty..but I guess it would have to be at another time and another place. Make that a place atleast 100 kilometres away from human habitation and anytime before what we call the developed world came into being. Or else, you would probably have to be a movie star..and I could use that last one any day...provided I were the hero of course...and Bipasha were dancing in a park quite near me!

Shain