Soaked in South Texas: Why Rainstorms Are Made for Smiling

When the rain finally falls in South Texas, you can hide under the roof or you can dance in it. Which will you choose?

We don’t get lots of rain in South Texas. When it happens it’s time to enjoy it. You can’t really enjoy the rain if you don’t want to get wet. One has to free the little boy or girl and let them get soaked to skin. That’s what happened to me today. I went to the nearby supermarket (In Texas they’re generally H-E-B). When I arrived I could see some clouds in the western sky and thought nothing of it. When I finished checking out a buddy purposely bumped his cart into mine. I told him I was claiming a back injury and he told me I ran a light. We laughed and talked. We decided to stop blocking the aisle and pushed our carts outside. It was pouring rain. Other shoppers were hunkered under the extended roof. I fist bumped my buddy, said goodbye, and casually strolled to my car. I put my groceries in the trunk and took my cart to the cart corral. That’s when I decided to make a video of me getting soaked.