Rain in Florida

Just this morning I woke up and found out it was raining. No big deal, I live in Florida, it rains here every other day during this season. Not to mention I like the rain. Unless it messes with my absolute favorite tv show that can't be watched online or a very important football match, I truly don't care much. I don't even care when the power goes out due to the heavy rain and I end up driving on pitch dark roads at night, alone. The sight of seeing south Tampa flooded doesn't scare me. I am usually so used to the hot weather, such things tend to make my life more interesting. So this morning I didn't care that the rain ruined the cook out plan I made with my friends. If we can't have a BBQ in the park, we can always have it indoors. And that is exactly what we did. I didn't mind going out in the rain to grab things from my car, and when my friends offered me their jackets and umbrellas I said it was not necessary, and they were being overprotective. That was precisely the same thing I told my dad when he offered me his umbrella later on in the day. After all I like Rain :D

But then I got stuck middle of no where. A road I have never been to and have never heard of. The car stopped working, there was no one around not a single person. 911 and 411 was no help. (911 should not be called the emergency line. They didn't even seem to empathize..  The 5 towing companies I called didn't know where I was and water started getting inside my car. Everything seemed to go wrong and all I could think was how thankful I was for everything, and how things could be much worse. I could have a smaller car and my car would've drowned sooner. I could have had no phone, or a phone with no charge but I had two phones at my disposal. I could be totally alone, but I had my dad with me. My dad was really tired though, and he was starving. My dad is my weakness. I thought it was so movie/ tv show like. My sister and I always joke around when such things come up. What if we become the next "Criminal Minds" case? Get stranded middle of no where and get killed. I wish she was with me because if a "Criminal Minds" case was to happen that would be the perfect place. However nothing like that happened. And after cancelling on handful of towing companies, getting yelled by them, and waiting 4 hours middle of no where, a random towing truck came from no where, and the guy dropped us home.

Things I learned about myself today:  
Allah is always looking out for me, today could've been much worse.
I am actually quite a strong person, as long as my family is not involved in the situation I always see the bright side of the things.
I can be quite realistic because I didn't mind for a second that I was wearing flip flops and my feet were under the dirty icky water.

I think that's about it. I just had to write it down. Because till today my biggest rain story was when I gave a complete stranger a ride to his work in heavy rain. The guy jokingly hit on me on the way, I didn't know if he was serious or he was just being nice because I helped him. What I remembered most that day was that I had the courage to help a guy knowing it could've gone bad. And when the guy called me an angel and said he hoped good things would happen to me it made everything worth it. I really needed that good wish, because a big test for my family was coming up. And Alhamdulillah it went well.

Before that my biggest rain story was the time I tried saving a bird from a mean cat, but that didn't go too well and it haunted me for a while.