And me without my keys

Last night's post ended with a couple of unanswered questions: 1) what would my roommate do today on his day off, and 2) would it rain?

Let me go ahead and end the suspense for you. My roommate slept late, AND it rained. I hate days like this. When I woke up this morning it was cloudy. Earlier in the morning around 5, a thunderstorm moved through, but by the time the kids and the girlfriend were moving about, the rain had stopped. I heard the weather guy on the television say that a cold front was moving in and that the temperatures were in the process of dropping. It would not be as warm today as it had been the past few days. I thought to myself that I should go ahead and take my walk early, because the rest of the day wasn't going to shape up too well. So, when the tall kid went outside to put the dopey dogs out in the back yard, I went out to go get the paper. I must have gotten distracted, because when I went back to the house to go in, the door was locked and the girlfriend was gone. I was locked out.

I went up to the balcony door to see if I could get the roommate's attention, but I failed. He was fast asleep. I did not have a key with me, and I don't do cell phones, so I had to wait for the roommate to wake up before I could get back in. Ordinarily, the short curly haired girl gets up around 8. However, this morning, she decided to wake up around six. This meant that she was already back in my roommate's room in bed with him. I couldn't rely on her to help my cause either. But then again, what else is new?

As I waited, I thought to myself that sitting around outside was not so bad. The sun was hidden behind clouds and the temperature was falling, but ultimately, things were okay. Until . . . it started raining again. Great. Just great. I pounded on the back door as hard as I could, but it was useless.

Finally, around 11 or so, my idiot roommate saw me standing outside and opened the door. I quickly came inside, because I was wet, cold, and irritated. As I made my way across the den to head downstairs, my roommate asked me the dumbest question, "Hey man? What were you doing outside? Didn't you know it was cold and raining?"

Rocket scientist, that guy.