Today, I had an interview down in Fremont. So in the morning, I take the usual glance out the window to get a feel for how the weather may be.  And since the sky was completely blue, I figured I’d have no problem being in a nice suit without carrying an umbrella. Lo and behold, by the time I come out of the Fremont BART station an hour or so later, I find myself welcomed by a steady downpour of rain. At the moment, I felt like a noob, because I should have known better. Never trust a blue sky when the previous day included downpours and light hail, especially since the Bay Area weather has dissociative identity disorder.

Trying to be resourceful, I look around maybe for some sort of plastic bag, but the only bags I see are those being used by the homeless people in the corner. I settle instead for grabbing a BART brochure, which I then attempt to use as a flimsy covering as I scurry my way across the parking lot to the business complex three minutes next door. It’s quite fascinating how much water you can pick up in three minutes.

Since I usually give myself some extra cushion to arrive before an interview, I had the time to get some paper towels from the restroom and pat myself dry. Good thing that it was also a nicer office building, so they had a pleasantly warm heating system going in the restroom, which definitely helped in the drying off.

I made a mental note to myself to get a mini-umbrella that could be hung from the side of my laptop bag. That mental note is now filed alongside other mental notes, including ones like remembering to get a mini-vacuum for my car, to re-organize my music files, to exercise more, etc.