When I was trying to get admission into St Xavier's in class 1 , I was asked by the Principal of the school, "Which is your favorite season ?"
If it was today, I would say the football season, but when I was 6 years old , football had not entered my mind so I replied "The monsoon season"
Why?
That is because most people in Bengal just love rain, we in Calcutta have a very laid back attitude, offices open at around 10 AM, the traffic is atrocious and the people are just used to blockades and bandhs all the time.
The rain is just another way to relax and take a day off, the monsoon season always brings in one or two days of massive heavy rainfall where everything will be closed the next day, has been happening every year since I came back to Calcutta.
Plus, I was a kid back then, there is nothing better than coming home during the rain, getting drenched, jumping in puddles and basically making a mess, plus the obvious scolding a person or a kid in my case would get when I would reach home.
My mom would always be cross as to why I would come home drenched even though she would give me an umbrella, the lamest excuse I would give when I was young was "The wind was blowing from all sides, so the umbrella was off no use",
now I am an adult, so I tell her the truth
"I wanted to get drenched , Ma, its RAIN , how can you not enjoy it?"
The fact that I was away from Calcutta for a good 7 years made me realize how much I really enjoyed the monsoon season, comparing it to the 7 almost barren years of no rain in Dubai, a little drizzle gets me all jumpy and excited. In hope that due to the crazy shit loads of rain , I won't have to go to school or college or office.
While now I am doing my internship from a certain office, recently it was raining all nite long, the next day I got dropped off at office with a huge umbrella as usual.
The rain was so bad in some areas that well half of the office staff came late, but again, I was on time, which was good as I had the chance to leave early as well. The other interns somehow made it, while we sat there waiting for the HR to come and let us go, we decided that it was late enough and we should leave so that we could reach home fast.
When we did reach the ground floor, it was completely flooded with water, that too dirty shit assed water completely filled with muck and roaches floating about like it was lunch time in Joe's apartment.
I expected Camac street to be bad, everyone says it becomes pathetic as soon as it rains for an hour or so, I got a bloody good taste of it when I reached the main street, the place was completely waterlogged, no chance of even being able to take a peek of the pavement, the pavement didn't exist anymore, it felt like I was on the shore of some beach, of course due to the presence of so much mud and sand in the water, not to mention the cockroaches.
The road was completely filled with water and the cars were all standing still, while the umbrella I was holding was of no use, as the wind really was blowing water from all the sides, I decided to have some fun, while in my office casuals (I hate them), seeing a lot of standing water with a lotta hard rain means only 1 thing to me, its time to get drenched, screw the umbrella, I start jumping in and out of the water, kicking and splashing it to some of my friends from the office who have no idea why I am doing it.
The look that people had in the cars was hilarious, the stare that they were providing and the gobsmacked expression said it all, Why would anyone be doing this? I do it, because I fucking can is the answer.
While I usually walk fifteen minutes before I take a cab home, this time around I could only walk 5 minutes as the water was knee deep for me. The cab driver fortunately was heading towards my locality as he said he had told a few people to buzz off as he was not interested in going anywhere in this weather.
Hell, it was so bad, that water was entering the cab and certain low cars were actually getting water into their grill, while we passed Camac street and came out from under the bridge, it was slightly better as the other side of the city had almost no problems regarding stagnant water, of course that was for the main road, inside my locality it was bad as well, fortunately my complex is located bang on the main road so I was saved from having to trudge in the waist deep water as I heard.
The best bit of the day, apart from getting drenched, missing office, splashing my ass around?
Getting to go home and stuffing my face with fries and chicken nuggets.
Bring on the rain, if it means more days like this.
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