Well, it's been a very dry season since I got my new Il Bello scooter, so the weather here has been miserably hot, but unusually dry... so I haven't had to ride in the rain -- at least not when I had to go more than a few hundred feet (and even then, it was mostly sprinkles).
So this morning, I was talking with someone at work, and she happened to ask me whether I rode my bike or got a ride when it was wet, and I told her that, even if it was pouring cats and dogs, riding my bike was immeasurably preferable to trying to get my beloveds out of the house in the morning...
... which I think the Universe, smart-ass prankster that it is, took as