Following schoolgirls in the rain

Well I know why they call it the rainy season here in Japan.  Having to ride my bike 10 minutes is starting to become a problem.  But thats not a story, this is.

I was supposed to go see a Hanshin Tigers baseball game, which I have been wanting to see for more than a year now, when I got the weather report.  According to the local weatherman it was supposed to rain.  I arrived at work and recieved the bad news that we couldn’t go to the game.  I was so heart broken.  Thankfully we got tickets to go another time(It’s supposed to rain that day too).  So I am finished with work and going home and the weather looks fine to me and I’m mad.  Then, an hour later, I arrive at my home station and the sky looks black and its lightining.  I’m happy again.  I pick up my bike and as soon as I start to leave it rains.  I’m angry again.

When it rains,  IT RAINS.  I was soaked after the first block and I have to go another 7.  I can’t see at this point because my glasses are covered in rain.  And in case your wondering NO there are not any places to stop and wait it out on my way home.  So I’m starting to get worried with the downpour and the lightining.  When sudenly two schoolgirls come peddling down the street screaming like a couple of asian school girls(and yes that is a correct metaphor, because nothing on earth screams louder than a couple of asian schoolgirls).  So I figure “Hey it looks like they are headed the same way” so I decide to follow them.  I am naming my next book “When in doubt, follow the schoolgirls”.  Thanks to them I made it back safely and we even got to talk briefly.  Though the conversation was mostly them giggling.

I made it home completly drenched to the bone.  My host family takes a look at me and whisk me to the bathroom before I drip all over the tatami mats(which are expensive and ruin easily).  I get out of the shower and guess what my family is watching.  THE HANSHIN TIGERS GAME.  They said that it only rained for about 20 minutes before stopping.  I looked outside and sure enough the sky was clear.

And that is why the rainy season sucks.