Underwear Soaking Wet, Wet

The sky was sunny and blue when Hendrix and I entered the Wal Mart. 30% chance of rain that day. We thought we would be safe...we were wrong.

Through the sky lights, we could see the sunny day turning grey, as thunder clapped loudly. We were on our bi-monthly grocery shopping trip, and the cart was getting full.

We paid our bill, just north of $100, and headed for the exit. People and their carts were piling up in the entrance, as rain had began beating down outside. "It's not raining that hard" I thought to myself as I put Hendrix in the cart, placing my hat on his head. Famous last words, indeed.

We took three hurried steps in the rain when the heaven's unloaded! The rain came down so hard and so fast that in 3 more steps we were both completely, and totally soaking wet. Underwear soaking wet, wet. I ran to the car, Hendrix cried out "Run faster, daddy!" as sideways rain pelted his sweet, little face. The rain was so thick, my car became invisible.

I finally located it, and lifted the back hatch. I hustled Hendrix in and began throwing handfuls of grocery bags into the back. I ditched the cart in the cart return (why the hell not, I was soaked at this point, and it was right next to the car), and got in. I looked at Hendrix, he looked at me. We laughed.

Then he told me he had to go potty.

Ah, hell no! I'm not hiking him back in this monsoon to go to the bathroom! I held him out the door, and let him pee in the parking lot. Shoot, it was raining so hard, no one could see him anyway.

When I got home, the storm had broken. I put all the bags of groceries on the kitchen floor, and retrieved a towel. I had to hand dry ALL the groceries...the bags did nothing to protect from the hammering we just received. If I would have poured the water out of the bags, I swear I could have filled several cups. Several boxes were destroyed, but I only lost one item...a box of spaghetti was irrevocably ruined.

I should have known better than to try and outrun the rain...next time, maybe I'll wait til the storm has passed!!