It Looks Like Rain

Most folks seem to get way too worked up over the rain. We worry about it all the time and actually plan entire events around whether or not it's supposed to rain. A lot of folks watch the weather every single night for primarily one reason: to find out whether or not it's going to rain. It seems to me we're taking this rain thing way too serious.

When you were a kid you loved the rain and anytime you got the chance to you'd run around in it trying to get as wet as you could before you're mom or someone else's mom started yelling at you to get in out of it. But over the years, we've been conditioned to believe that getting caught out in the rain is bad. The truth is, it was an umbrella salesman who came up with that concept. Before the umbrella was invented, people just went around wet when it rained. It's one of the reasons God invented the sun, along with body heat and later on the bath towel. Eventually He came up with the electric dryer (both blow and tumble), although some guy from Sheboygan took the credit for that.

One thing I've noticed over the years is that no matter how wet you get from getting caught in the rain, you'll eventually dry out. And I'm not talking about most of the time: I mean literally every single time!

I've given the subject of getting rained on quite a bit of thought this afternoon as I sit here in T.H. Benton's on the Bentonville Square, and as a result I'm going out on a limb. I'm recommending that collectively we turn over a new leaf, lighten up and embrace the rain--just like some folks have (fill in the blank).

Here's the thought of the day: the next time you get caught out in the rain, remember these two things:

1) Running with your head down doesn't keep you from getting less wet than if you run with your head up and...

B) In and of itself, a little rain water never hurt anyone.

NOTE: According to my late Grandma Stewart, "Rain water is good for your hair silly!"