THE RAINS HAVE COME #KusortwaNemvura

It was my mom’s birthday last Thursday. And like every daughter who loves her mom, I went on a quest to look for the best gift I could get her. All the ground work had been done by my siblings and what was left was for me to go and look for the gift and buy it.

This was a task and a half! Working with a tight budget in addition to wanting to buy something she would love was no easy job. Luckily, I met a friend who made the task quite enjoyable. Unfortunately though, it started raining whilst we were still shopping. Note: emphasis on the phrase IT STARTED RAINING! Not drizzling uh uh RAINING – CATS AND DOGS!

The annoying thing was, in the morning, the weather had been nothing short of heavenly – nice and sunny. And then all of a sudden from nowhere, the weather made a drastic transformation. As if getting soaked on a good day wasn’t enough, it had to happen when I had nothing warm on. It made me think of the gals out there who like to put on weather friendly clothing which in this season is usually nothing. Lol, at this time wearing close to nothing was hell on earth because it was COLD!!!

The good thing about town is that almost every building has a shade so if you are late like we were and cannot afford to wait out the rain, you can edge your way along the shaded pavements till you get to where you are going. Oh did I mention none of us had an umbrella? No, we didn’t have umbrellas, no car, no taxi money and we were in uptown and had to go all the way to downtown for our kombis! Yeah, it’s definitely being served by the heavens when they decide to empty themselves on us like that!

So what we would do is edge along the shades, and then run like the wind when we had to cross roads. You just had to laugh at the way we got confused once we were on the other side because all we were thinking of was the need to get out of the rain. And then when we would have gotten to the other side we would find ourselves going in different directions :) .

When we finally thought of getting an umbrella, we were almost by the kombis, but here is the funny thing. The rain wasn’t as heavy anymore, but the roads were now FLOODED! So much that most times there was no way of getting to the other side without wading through a body of dirty brown water. If you had cheap shoes, then this just was not your day.

Interesting thing is, even with that kind of nasty weather, people will not leave town! Traffic was just crazy, too much unnecessary congestion. And then well, there just had to be some drama. Some guy thought he would make a quick profit, grabbed some lady’s purse, and well, provided us with a scene because here we were watching thief and victims playing cops and robbers, lol you have never seen a man run like his life depended on it, because this one – his life actually did depend on it.

And what of the people who kept missing their steps and falling head on in to the dirty puddles? Thursday afternoon was definitely THE afternoon to be in town. And yeah I did get served - what with the whole getting soaked? Lol.

Kunonzi kusortwa nemvura chaiko.