Tashi If I wanted to deal with this much constant rain I would have moved to Portland.

Dan Portland gets a lot of rain?

Tashi Tons! It is known for it.

Dan I thought it was…

Tashi Portland, Oregon.

Dan Oh, not Portland, Maine.

Tashi Not Portland, Maine at all.

Dan Because I thought you were referring to Portland, Main, not Portland, Oregon.

Tashi I understand that now, yes.

Dan Because when I thought you meant Portland, Maine and not Portland, Oregon I was, understandably, confused at the idea of a high annual rainfall.

Tashi Daniel, dearling, the amount of damn I could ever possibly give about this misunderstanding was long ago surpassed. I would rather it rain, in fact, than you continue.

Dan Well, all right then. I do agree though.

Happy Tashi You don’t care about what you were saying either?

Happy Dan No, that there has been far too much rain.

Tashi I am so sick of the dampness. Nothing dries right anymore. The paint screams. The walls shriek the…

Happy Dan Are we are in some bad Rob Zombie movie remake?

Happy Tashi Perhaps! It feels like it.

Happy Dan The Moist.

Tashi Ugh. I hate that word.

Dan Everyone hates that word. Moist has to be in the top ten English words everyone hates.

Tashi It just sounds so…

Happy Dan Moist?

Angry Tashi Yes!

Dan Still, it has to stop raining sometime.

Tashi Why? Why must it stop sometime? Again I think of Portland. Oregon. Or London, or any other rainy climate. Perhaps this is it for us now. A rainy climate in New York. It is the end. Nothing to be done.

Dan Depressing much?

Sad Tashi I did not want only one hot weekend of summeration! I wished for many beach trips and bright sparkly days. Instead, we get this.

Dan Portland, Oregon.

Sad Tashi Portland, Oregon.

Dan Maybe you could use a real sun lamp?

Tashi A what?

Dan You know, it’s one of those lamps that gives you, like, full spectrum light. Supposed to help with seasonal defective disorder.

Tashi Please tell me you mean seasonal affective disorder.

Dan Yeah, that’s what I said.

Happy Tashi No you said defective not affective. Anyway, I do not think this is what it is.

Dan No?

Tashi No, I think I simply have been gypped. That simple.

Happy Dan And you think that Portland, Oregon has stolen your weather?

Happy Tashi It has been unseasonably warm there. Sunny though, I can not confirm.

Happy Dan If you stole better weather would you confirm it for strangers?

Tashi Good point.

Dan So what are you going to do about it?

Tashi Not much. I can’t invade them, or demand weather back. I think the best I can do is glower from afar.

Happy Dan Want company?

Tashi And an umbrella.