Fucking REALLY?!!
I worked this evening. The first two hours were fine.
Then bad weather started rolling in.
"Hey . I don't like the look of those clouds."
"Seriously . My mother just texted me about the storm. It hit them 20 minutes ago and dropped golf ball sized hail. Will be here inside 10 minutes."
5 minutes later the Emergency Broadcast System starts up on the dining room tv. Then then the warning sirens go off around town.
A funnel cloud has been spotted in Cape Girardeau county, near interstate exit . Please seek shelter immediately in..."
We keep delivering. isn't concerned at all.
The sky turns that weird shade that means 'crazy shit is about to happen'.
The sirens go off again 15 minutes later. I'm listening to my car radio and the announcer says the warning has been extended for another half hour.
The rain really hits us then. Winds start gusting like crazy. Cloud to ground lightning is flashing like strobes at a rave and some of it is striking only a couple football fields away from me.
is still unconcerned. Every other store near ours had declared Code Black and shut down.
Not us.
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Fiinally I have only 20 minutes left in my shift and I say "I really DO NOT feel safe delivering in these conditions. May I leave a bit early?"
I get the affirmative as we are pretty slow. (Gee. I wonder why? Maybe it had something to do with the fact that every sane person was taking shelter?!)
SO I start driving home. Make it about halfway and it starts raining so hard there is ZERO visibility. I pull over and wait for it to die down a bit. This happened three times in the three mile drive.
I'm now sat here, drenched to the bone and mad as hell.
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Ultimately the warning has been extended until 15 minutes from now. I'm no longer concerned, however, because the frogs and toads are quite loudly exclaiming that "EVERYTHING IS AWESOME! COME HAVE SEX WITH US LADIES!" Which would not be happening if the waste was about to hit the rotary impeller.