A couple of weekends ago Kyle and I were going to our nephew's baseball game about an hour from our house. It wasn't until the afternoon, and Kyle saw something about a street market that would be going on earlier in the day, so we left the house early and headed out to shop. When we were in Santa Fe we bought a ton of stuff to re-decorate one of the spare rooms in our house. We really wanted one of those wooden ladders that are made with rounded pieces of wood and strapped together with leather rope, however since we were in the convertible, we couldn't buy one there. Fast forward to the street market
and voila, we found one that looked exactly like the ones we found in Santa Fe. It is about 6 feet tall and again, we were in the convertible. It's a sunny day, why not? Right?
So we are driving around in this little sporty car, with a giant ladder sticking up out of the back, an hour from home. We made it through my nephew's game and the clouds starting coming in. The black, giant clouds that sort of say "Look out down there, you brainiacs in the convertible. You're about to get fucked!" We hopped in the car just as it started sprinkling. Three minutes later it's full on pouring.
I don't know if you've ever been in this sort of situation but as long as you're going 55 or 60 you don't get as wet as you'd think. However, when you are on a road that has constant stop lights you experience the full effect of the torrential downpour. We were cruising along and just laughing at how funny the whole situation was when we came to our first stoplight. That's when we really started taking on water. We were soaked, just soaked and I'm sure all the cars around us were thinking we were totally insane. There we are, laughing our asses off at the sheer hilarity of the situation and just dripping wet. I'll just bet it's on YouTube somewhere labeled "Check out the idiots in the convertible, but hey, nice ladder."
At one point Kyle shouted "Ouch" and grabbed his head. I reached over, plucked the icy chunk of hail out of his hair and tossed it out of the car. Yes, we took on everything but snow. It will however, be snow season soon. I can't wait.
