Keep On The Sunny Side....

Greetings to whoever actually takes the time to read this. It's rainy. Very rainy. It's been this way for the last couple of days. The local Indians are doing a drought dance. Frogs are drowning. No sunshine. This has me wishing for warmer, sunnier times. Times when I can get outside and ammuse myself, whether it be with a gun, a chainsaw, a volleyball... anything that doesn't require rain! Times spent on the lake, or rock-climbing. Good times, bad times.... SUNSHINE!!! lol
So I decided to go on a quest for sunshine. This decision was not easily made, and took much deliberation. I counted and recounted the risk, like outdated Floridian paper ballots. In the end that ended up, I ended up deciding that the risks were justified. So I gathered my equipment... a cell phone, a clean pair of socks and some Axe body spray.
The first step was the simplest. I applied a liberal amount of the body spray to my, umm, body, and proceeded to the second step. I changed my socks. This didn't make much sense to me either, but I just figured I really couldn't hurt my chances of finding some sunshine by changing them.... and I was already going to change them before the beginning of Operation Sunshine (that's what I decided to title the operation... I just now came up with it... pretty cool huh?).
Now came the most precarious part of the operation... I picked up the cell phone. I for one have never been big on prank phone calls, and while this was not intended to take the position of one, many of my readers might have considered it to be very similar. My gut told me that Fate itself would lead me to sunshine, if I would only place myself fully in its hands and allow it to work its magic. So I closed my eyes. This was a big step that would test my faith in the powers of Fate, because after closing my eyes I attempted to open the phone, but it was upside down, and I dropped it on the floor. I wondered for a moment if this was a twist of Fate, trying to push me in a particular direction, or perhaps simply test my determination. Regardless, I had placed my quest in the hands of Fate, so I couldn't simply open my eyes and pick up the phone....
13 minutes later, I had found the phone. It would have been much quicker, had it not broken apart when I dropped it. So the battery obviously had decided that it felt cramped and smothered by the closeness of the casing, and needed to take some time alone to think about where the relationship was headed. In the end they were reunited in a tearful embrace... or at least, they were together again.
Now that the phone was whole again, I opened it up once more, eyes still closed, and began to dial. The quest for sunshine was underway. I followed no pattern, besides to push the first 10 keys that fate led me to. After listening to the sound of my call ringing through to somewhere... I heard a voice! The voice of- of a MAN!??! This caught me slightly off guard, but not for long. I realized that Fate had led me here, and that I should be grateful. I was just somehow expecting the voice of sunshine to be that of a woman, but maybe not. So instead of becoming discouraged, I quickly became an analytical machine, processing each individual word as he spoke it. I would have to pay attention to this messanger of sunshine.
"I'm." Ah! This man felt comfortable enough to use his name around me, the same thing he called himself around his friends no doubt.
"Sorry." Already, I could tell that this man cared about my lack of sunshine. With only his second word of the conversation, he was declaring his concern and sorrow over my predicament. This reassured me. Fate had not let me down!
"Your." Wow! I was taken somewhat aback by his straightforward approach. Already he felt comfortable enough talking to me on a personal level.
"Call." Ah, now to the heart of the matter! My call, and it's importance. I thought quite highly of this guy already. Friendly, personal, but efficient too.
"Cannot be." What's this?? Negative words? What can't my call be?But I was getting ahead of myself. Listen to what the man has to say Lucas.
"Completed." Cannot be completed? NO!! Why not?!?! What is your problem? What is this, pretending to be my friend? This fellow seemed quite nice up till this point, but suddenly he was transformed in my mind from an angel of the sunshine to a demon of the rain.
"As dialed." It was at this point that I got fed up. Not only had this friendship gone sour, he was now declaring that it was my fault! What was wrong with my dialing? It has always been my experience that there are two sides to every problem, and I found his approach to be quite hurtful and unfair. But I was willing to fight for our friendship. In my mind, a part of it still rested on the laurels of my first impression of him.
"Please hang up." This was the final blow. His contempt was only thinly veiled by the use of "please." I understood what he was saying. Hang up. But I wanted to get a word in edge-wise before the line was disconnected.
"And try again." Taunting! The demon was taunting me, just daring me to try and resurrect our friendship from the ashes of a fire that he had set himself! It was at this point that I began to sob. I became but a withered form of my usual self, and teardrops fell like the rain that seemed to have temporarily slackened.
Just as I took a breath to try and talk things over with the man, and at the very least give him a healthy piece of my mind, I heard that cruelest of sounds known to the telephone world. The click of a call that was no more. The signal of death for a relationship, a friendship that could never be renewed. I cursed Fate. It had betrayed me. Operation Sunshine had failed miserably. I had attempted to find sunshine in the best way I knew how, and that hadn't gotten me anywhere.
It was then that I opened my eyes and looked at the floor. My light deprived eyes burned. I looked around for a symbol of hope, some reassurance that the sun would shine again. But none could be found. My eyes drifted again to the floor and began tracing the shadow caused by my body... WAIT A SECOND!!! shadows??? I turned around to the window to be greeted by the glorious warmth and light of the sun. The teardrops on my cheeks began to dry as they glistened in the sunshine. I got a text on my phone. Could it be from some Sunshine in womanly form? Who knows. All I knew was that it was sunny again. And life looked better. Much better.

For the record, I had no idea where this was going as I wrote it. I just rambled my way through. lol A strong 96% of it is fiction, with the true bits being about the rain (which is still here actually), and some other minor details. I hope you enjoyed it, I have no real way to explain it.
If you've just read this, but it's still rainy at your house, or at the very least, in your head, here's something that I found that should cheer you up. I'm a a pretty optimistic kind of guy, so in my quest to find the positive in life, I got on YouTube. lol These are pretty funny, and I hope they help you to remember that things could always be worse. Maybe you are a loser, but at least nobody caught it on tape. ;) lol