Hot Shower Therapy

After months of very little rain, Perth got a bucketing this afternoon. We need the rain and I certainly wouldn’t complain about the downpour, but it does have a downside.

A bad ride is still better than a good drive most of the time but my ride home from work today was one I’d rather not repeat.

To start the ride, I noticed that my rear light wasn’t operating properly. On a dark afternoon I wasn’t too pleased with the idea of taking to busy roads without being seen by other road users so I stuck to bike paths wherever I could. That meant traveling over some really average surfaces.

A few kilometres from home my left eye started stinging. A summer of sweat was now washing out of the pads in my helmet into my burning eye. I rubbed my eye as little as possible but I still needed to stop the stinging so I had little choice.

On top of those problems, the rain was falling and the wind was blowing, making forward motion all the more difficult. It was a slow trip home.

Then, about a kilometre or so from home, my rear tyre punctured. It was dark, raining and my eye was stinging so I had no intention of changing a tube. I took off my shoes and helmet and walked the rest of the way home in my socks.

I wasn’t feeling wonderful when I got home so I stripped off my rain jacket and wet clothes and jumped into a nice hot shower. Aaaaaah!

That’s all it took. A few short minutes in a hot shower and life was suddenly a whole lot brighter. I still need to sort out my tyre, rear light and helmet, as well as drying clothes and shoes, but a short, hot shower can work miracles.

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