The Number One Son Report

Jul. 10, 2007 - Rain brings out the worst!

Honorable Uncle told Number One Son that rain brings out the worst in their city and today he found it to be true! The city is not a great place for pedestrians anyway as the expectation seems to be if you get run over, it's your own fault - you'd better jump out of the way.  In the rain, everything is worse - mud around construction sites which always seem to set up in the most awful places (the city is always growing), public transport transfers are difficult, and taxis are impossible to find (and the city is absolutely full of them.)  Number One Son had an Egg McMuffin for breakfast (really!) and then waited for a taxi for 25 minutes.  Of the hundreds that passed all except 4 were full and two of those drove on past and other soggy pedestrians claimed the other two.  He finally gave up and took the subway downtown, but it was a mucky, hot humid day - just about unbearable.  The funny thing is, that it was here, too.  We've found out that nearly always the weather there in that city on the other side of the world is exactly like it is here where we live.  I know, too strange, but it's true!  One of our sons graphed the temperatures of the two cities for some time and they were always within a degree or two of each other.  Truth is stranger than fiction.
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