The rain was pounding against the windows. Leaves were blowing off the trees then sticking to the driveway and the road as if they were glued. I grabbed my raincoat headed out the door, running to the car to minimize the wetness. (My umbrella was nowhere to be found!) The car was a welcome place of dryness. As I backed out of the driveway, a huge gust of wind blew our neighbor’s trashcan right smack into my back bumper! After putting the car in park, I ran out to check the bumper, luckily, by some miracle, it was fine. The trashcan was drenched and the lid, which had blown off, was full of dirty water. I picked it up hastily and the water poured down my pants leg. Blech!
I schlepped the trashcan up their driveway and on my way running back to the car, I slipped on one of those leaves and landed flat on my back with the rain pelting me in the face. This was not a great start to the day.
As smoothly as I could, I picked myself up off the ground. Luckily, only my pride was hurt. I WALKED back into the garage as I was already soaked and then tiptoed into the house leaving a trail of dirty water on the foyer floor. I had to get a towel and dry off – after quickly changing my slacks.
After cleaning up as best I could, and wiping the foyer floor, too, I went back out to the car…carefully.
Okay now…heading to work. The day is not starting off very well, but hey, let’s hope it goes up from here!!
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