OT: Thunderbolts and Lightening, Very, Very Frightening!

The eerie, fascinating color of the sky or the absolute stillness of the air should have been my first clues that my dumbass quotient was pretty high this morning.  Being stubborn, and a man, I decided to go on a bike ride anyway.  At 2 miles out I felt the first drips of rain as I looked at the black clouds overhead.  I turned around and headed back home.  Lightening crackled above me and I was surrounded by rumbles of thunder.  I shifted into a higher gear and pedaled like a madman, cursing my own stupidity.  Soon I arrived home, breathless and glad to be safe and sound.  My shirt had only a few wet dots on it as I watched the sky darken even further and the rain start in earnest.   I shook my head and walked in the house, wondering why I sometimes don't have the good sense that God gave a duck.

RP  

Mama Mia!  I say if it wasn't thundering or lightening when you left for the ride, it wasn't dumb ass of you, it was just optimistic.  I don't think that's a bad thing.  Better to go than use the chance of rain as an excuse not to.  I've never heard of anyone getting struck by lighting while riding a bike. Now if you were going out on a boat, I'd have a different reply.

lol....................... if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, I guess it's a duck............but we all know your way smarter than that, have a great day

RP,

I'm just glad your okay.......

Kelly

I'm only laughing because of how you chose to write the story!
Glad to hear you turned around before the big storm came through!!!

Actually, if you really think about it, maybe He DID give you the sense of a duck?  I mean, a DUCK would go out in the rain - a duck would LOVE the rain, right? 

So I think your new nickname, when you manage to harass me about lifting me up, will from now on be "Duckbrain".