A Rainy Conversation

"It is so nice outside. I have to run. I must run. It is too nice to not run outside today."

"Don't run outside."

"But it's cloudy, it's cool, it's breezy. It's perfect!"

"It's drizzling."

"So?"

"It's a tropical storm."

"Oh, it won't get bad until later tonight. Come on, I wanna run outside."

"If you must. But I wish you'd run inside."

"But the weather is so NICE..."

Ten minutes later, as I climbed onto the treadmill for a solid tempo run, it occurred to me that our conversation is perhaps the best indicator of what the weather is like in Houston during the summer -- so hot and humid that a tropical storm seems like perfect weather.