Getting sick from the rain

By bigpumpkin | November 20, 2008

I chose to tempt fate yesterday. I don’t know why I do what I do sometimes.

It is a known fact tried and tested many a time, that whenever I get caught in the rain, even if it is the slightest drizzle, I will catch a cold and fall ill. TRIED and TESTED in many variations throughout my life, just to prove a point. If I get caught in the rain and wash my hair immediately, I’m fine. If I wear a cap and my body gets wet, I’m also fine. For some reason, rain water just cannot touch my head. If it does, I’m doomed. It’s almost like my head is allergic to rain. It must have something to do with pollution!!!

It rained horribly yesterday and I was at Insight Kids (who incidentally is having a great holiday programme coming up!!!) with Tee and of course, didn’t have an umbrella. Instead of waiting for the rain to die down or borrowing an umbrella, I impatiently wanted to rush home to get dinner ready.

Just before we made a dash for the car, I saw a stranger (someone else’s driver :-)) who had an umbrella but was having a smoke. I asked him if he minded sending us to the car and he quickly put his cigarette out to help us. However, once Tee got into the car, I told him I would be fine as I didn’t want to trouble him to escort me to the other side of the car.

Bad move.

The head is really painful right now but I’m still off to give my little girl a great day today. We’re going to watch Madagascar!!!