Things to do in the rain

It’s like that Ray Bradbury short story where it rains every day and then one day the sun comes out and the mean kids lock that one earth girl inside and then she’ll have to wait another seven years to see the sun and it’s really sad. You know the one I mean? Sure you do. Don’t pretend you don’t because I  just don’t have time to explain.

Anyway, it’s been raining every day forever here in New York and people are pretty miffed about it. I myself was frankly kind of ticked off and also P.O.’d and a little bent out of shape until I realized that just because it’s raining doesn’t mean there aren’t all sorts of ways to take advantage of Mother Nature’s urine surplus. Seriously:  heaven’s flop sweat is ours for the taking! Here are some fun things to do:

Make rain tea! Put a teabag in a cup and then walk outside. Voila. Rain tea!

Rinse out your conditioner on the run! Shave a good 45 seconds to a minute off your morning ritual by leaving the house with a head full of conditioner. By the time you get to your destination, it’ll be mostly rinsed out. And your clothes will be moisturized too!

Dye your undergarments pink!  Red shirt + white bra+ red pants + white panties + rain = pink undergarments! Just in time for Valentine’s Day in 8 months!

Show your hairstyle a thing or two! Oh your hairstyle thinks it’s so sassy doesn’t it? With its perfect scultping and its mousse and its framing your face just so. Well you march out there in the rain and you show that hairstyle a thing or two!

Show your dry shirt a thing or two! Your shirt thinks its SO GREAT just because it’s dry? If that sounds familiar then you just strut out there in the rain and you show your shirt a thing or two!

Turn your umbrella inside out! Tired of your umbrella always keeping you dry? No problem amigo, just wait for a little wind and then head out there and let nature take your umbrella from somewhat functional wetness inhibitor to inverted kite in no time.