Rainy days are here again!

Get ready with your raincoats and umbrella, the rainy season is here. Wearing plastic boots has become fashionable not only for the old people and market vendors but as well as some teenagers showing off their pricey colorful boots. Classes has been suspended several times since the start of the school year due to heavy rains and severe flooding in some areas. 

Rainy days reminded me so much of my happy childhood days. When I was a kid, I love it when it rains because of these:

• No classes. We don't have to wake up early just to go to school. Suspension of classes were announced much earlier.
• No school work assignments. 

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• We were allowed to play in the rain. We play boat race, we cut out our old slippers into a small boat complete with flag and we race it into the stream of water  across our house. During my time, there were no clogged drainage and the streets are clean. Leptospirosis was never heard of during those times.
• We have "ginataan" for merienda. If you grew up in the Philippines, this is one comfort food that you will surely miss eating during cold rainy days.

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• Playing hide and seek inside the house. My mom usually don't allow us to play inside our house because of the mess we create but rainy days is an exception. Since  there's always brown-outs/blackouts during this time,  I enjoyed playing this game with my siblings.
• I can stay up late, if the classes are still suspended for next day.

As I grow old, rainy days brought more misery than fun. Flood around your neighborhood is not an excuse not to go to work. If you can get there by swimming or riding on an amphibian, you may do so.  If your place was hit by a typhoon, then you have to do some cleaning up. Just last night, it was so windy that it caused 2 minor explosion coming from the electric post in front of our house. I was so worried that it might start a fire. Oh! If only I can be a kid  again, then I have nothing to worry about.

How about you? What's your recollection of rainy days?

Looking forward to read your stories...