“Rainy Days and Mondays…”

When it rains golf balls and you start noticing, even if you’re  doing something else, and  when the rain starts turning into rumbling water boulders,  and you start quietly timing it in your head, 15 minutes…. 20 minutes…because you have a vivid memory, tucked somewhere,  of thousands dying helplessly  the last time that happened, and you start telling people to think of getting indoors or getting home, you have what i call – Ondoy phobia; but unlike any other kind of phobia, it is perfectly rational, and perfectly reasonable, in a country where people have  learned to take care of themselves without government.