SUMMERS HERE...apparently

I like to think of myself as the climatically optimistic type. I'm always eager, (albeit overly so) to squeeze every useable ray of sunshine out of any given day. Like today for instance. I ventured into town for a lunchtime jaunt, just a peerie jaunt, nothing grandiose. I bought a handful of satsumas, made nice with a couple of puppies, sampled some belgian chocolate Shetland fudge, bought a bottle of shower gel that smells like something akin to orchids and fuji apples, got dumped on by a deluge of early pm drizzle, had an extortinately expensive atmospheric contact lense snatched from my eye by a gale force gust and lost my skullcandies...(my ears were so numbed-out by the baltic conditions that I didn't notice when they fell out of my ears and onto the pavement, taking my newly stocked shuffle with them).