Rain, A Little Break Please

We complained of the hot weather and now the rains are here. It’s already clear we are in the rainy season. Cold mornings getting chilly almost half day. Everyone walking with heavy clothes. With umbrellas on their heads. But no matter how we love something it always got its merits and demerits. While farmers are enjoying the rain due to their crops in the country side, some of the people in the city just hate it when it rains. The rain comes with specific behaviours with us that to some extent some are so irritating.

Firstly, I don’t know why conductors think when it rains people get richer. Fare always hikes up almost by double, and at other places by triple. The other day a bus that routes to Rongai came and stopped just next to where I was standing. It was raining very heavily, cats and dogs (I don’t understand how dogs and cats are related to rain at all, who even thought of dogs and cats on a rainy day. Unless he lived in a kennel). It was to my shock when he said Ksh.250 as the fare. When it comes to morning hours its around fifty shillings. Does rain fall with money? You should learn to maintain the same fare price all the times.

Secondly, it’s not all of us who are blessed or lucky to own a car. It’s a hustling world, so maybe my day has not yet come. But if you are lucky to own one just know you might meet yourself on foot again. This goes to all those drivers who overspeed over puddles of water when it rains. Splashing dirty water to pedestrians. I’m a victim of these and not once. It always happens when you are well dressed. Do you have to overspeed over puddles? Why don’t I drive over the puddle and you get to walk as the water splashes on your silky suits? I might be in jeans, but maybe it’s my Sunday best. I might be silent on you guys but some of you drivers are followed by curses from those people you splash water on. So drive carefully and slowly on rainy days.

Thirdly, when it rains its appropriately for one to have an umbrella. It helps quite a lot from getting wet from the rain. But then again use it where appropriately. If where you stand is raining then open your umbrella, if it’s not CLOSE IT. These mostly goes to the ladies. A little drizzle and you keep your umbrella open from one end of town to another. If you are in a pavement close your umbrella. There is already a wall on top of you shading you from the rain. It’s not fun when I’m standing next to you, trying to wait for the rain to stop, your umbrella wide open in a pavement, and it drips off drops of cold rain water on my back. Or even trying to avoid hitting you because your umbrella is big enough, only ending up to walk on the rain for some minutes just to pass you. So learn to close your umbrellas if where you stand is not raining. 

Forthly, even when it rains, businesses are still as usual. We are all not hawkers that we shift from one place to another. Most businesses are located in a permanent location. So when it rains we tend to stand at the edge of the pavement and wait for the storm to cool down blocking some of the businesses located at such positions, mostly the “scratch and wins” shops. We flood at the end preventing the businesses from continuing as usual.

These are some of the behaviours that always comes with the rain that I have realized. At some point its better being sunny all year long.

It wouldn’t hurt to share…