Had a good canvass last night. Great conversations, picked up a volunteer, got sympathy for looking like I went fully-clothed into a sauna (it was just a wee bit humid). And then, suddenly, the breeze picked up, everything felt fresh and cool and fragrant.
And the sky turned a roiling, ominous, purple-greyish colour.
And I tweeted this: "Good news is it's cooling off. Bad news is it's about to pour."
And then the skies opened up. And I kept going. I rang the doorbells, I wrote my personal notes, I left my lit at the doors. And the ink on my personal notes washed away. My lit became wet and crumpled. Covering it with the clipboard was ineffective.
I tweeted this: "I am a drowned rat."
But it wasn't me that was melting, it was my lit. And then it started raining harder.
And I packed it in for the night. I walked back to the car, my sandals going squitch, squitch, squitch, my hat brim pouring rain like a store awning, the back of the clip-board swelling up and losing little pieces of itself, the world barely visible beyond my fogged and spattered glasses.
And I thought, "I've really got to remember to pack the rain-poncho and some zip-locks in my lit-bag! Then I could have kept going."
You get brownie points for stamina and devotion.
ReplyDeleteJust surfed over here from jo(e)'s place. Take a tip from an old canvasser--use sheet protectors on the front of your clipboard. You can put lit inside, as well as protect the lit underneath.
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