Poor Planning

[jamesq]

I rode my bike to work today. Clothing consisted of jeans and a t-shirt (because it's Stampede week) as well as the requisite bicycle helmet. No jacket or hoodie.

Now a big damn prairie thuderstorm is blowing through the NW. If I'm very lucky it will end by 5 pm when I leave work.

I'm not lucky.

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[oblivions.livejournal.com]

We just spent the last 20 minutes standing there like idiots watching what sort of looked like a funnel cloud form then blow away... the the cataract opened...

Good luck with the ride home. :)

[jamesq]

Well it does look like it's ending as quickly as it started. If it does not, nosarious has offered to come pick me up.

I sometimes forget that friends will help me out. I desperately avoid being put into a situation where I need to ask for that sort of emergency help because of the imagined negative responses.

[oblivions.livejournal.com]

... or the obligation. I know the feeling.

[bungle-lord.livejournal.com]

Been there, done that.
There was a while in Calgary when the storm would blow in somewhere between five and seven, last half an hour and then dissipate. After being caught once, I was careful to time my ride home accordingly. The drizzle started as I began cycling. It then grew to a downpour and hailstorm, to the point I was considering stopping and rolling under a parked car for protection. It actually short circuited my cycling computer (speedometer/odometer for those non-cyclists). After a half hour ride, and as I was unlocking my garage to put the bicycle away, the rain stopped and the sun came out.