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whiney day in Tokyo

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

A typhoon came to Tokyo today, possibly the worst weather I've seen in this city.

I had to take Kenny to day care by stroller rather than bike, as in a sunny day. Naturally, he refused to sit in the stroller, despite the rain. Then he fought me tooth-and-nail on having the plastic rain cover lowered. So we set off, him holding his small umbrella from his seat. Thirty seconds later he was piteously whining that the umbrella was too heavy. So crouching in the rain, I took the umbrella from him and did up the plastic rain cover.

It rained so hard through the day that the city activated the alarm sirens. It came sheeting down for hours.

When I went to pick him up again, the rain had abated. But it was still cool and blustery. As ever, he refused to have the rain cover on the stroller down .. until I had him wheeling down the street. At which point he started shrieking about how cold it was and that he needed the rain cover. Righttttt.....