Just a day

Though it is too obvious to mention but I will. When it comes to weather of Finland, ‘weird’ is not the word to be used. The mere speaking of “weather” has many adjectives included in it, like weird, fabulous, and lousy and so on. No wonder a typical conversation in England starts with weather and in Finland starts with temperature.

So it is raining since yesterday. It was sort of heavy rainfall yesterday and today it was polite drizzle. No Sun blazing around and clouds ruled the skies for better part of the day. What a shame for summer. The sun did come out from the covers, but it was not until 2100 hours when it got the chance. Poor thing, it had to retreat in few minutes.

This weather had got me nearly miss work today. Normally I get up without any alarm at anytime between 5 am and 7 am. During summer it depends how long I can keep my eyes shut in the brightness. Today when I got up and saw the time, it was 9.38 am! I could not believe my eyes and checked the cell phone and it indeed was 9.38 am. I wasn’t sure at what time I could reach office? I was still asleep when the hot water from shower was running over me. This frantic effort to reach office meant no tea/coffee. I thought of atleast fixing a bowl of cereals for my breakfast, thinking it would be take couple minutes to consume that. Well when I picked up the carton of milk it sounded too light, yeah no milk! I reached office without tea and breakfast at 10.20 am.

With the excellent start, the day was bound to get better. When I reached office, unusually, there was one pressing matter to be taken care of. So it was only an hour later that I got time to run to office pantry for the cup of coffee. The coffee never tasted so good.

This also makes me think that why we can’t buy milk and bread for the whole week at one go? The expiry dates particularly of milk should mandatory be for at least a week. Tomorrow we have holiday in Finland so I had to go to grocery shop to buy the milk in the evening. I came to cashier with one liter pack of milk and no cash in wallet. Though I never pay cash in grocery stores & elsewhere; I thought it odd to pay 74 cents by card. I saw this as excellent opportunities to get rid of those heavy coins and I paid with 3 coins of 20 cents and 2 coins of 10 cents and my wallet felt light. The girl seemed to get my intention and gave back one coin of 5 cents. The reason most of the times I got no bills in my wallets is the dreadful visit to ATMs, which I avoid as much I can.

When I called my mother in evening, I thought of telling her that I have holiday tomorrow. I started “Mother, tomorrow my school, err, college, err office is closed”. Damn! How can I do that? She started laughing. I don’t know what was going on my mind.

So that was one weird day or shall I only say a ‘day’.