PART ONE. "Weather Reports". Number Six

September 27, 2010


Shloimy,

Hey!

What's going on here?

Would you tell me?

I email to you about clouds,

and you write back

asking about what?

Rain?

I am shocked!

I can't believe you'd do that!

Have you no respect?

Have you no decency?

Don't you know that,

when it comes to the desert

and this harsh world of heat and sand,

you don't talk about rain.

In the summer,

You don't ask about it.

You don't even mention it!

Don't you know that?

What are you,

some kind of city-boy?

Here,

You don't talk.

You don't whisper.

YOU PRAY FOR RAIN!!!!!!

Do you understand?

YOU PRAY FOR RAIN.

How else do you expect to stay watered-up?

Go to the refrigerator?

Call the water department?

Ask some guy on a plane to fly overhead

and turn on a faucet?

I don't think so.

They might do that in Pittsburgh,

Buit this isn't Pittsburgh, boy!

Thias is the desert.

In this environment, what other chance do you have

to get water?

Today

it's going to be 96 degrees--again-- hot and dry.

Do you hear that?

Hot!

Dry!

Understand?

You want rain, pilgrim, you better start praying for it,

because

how else are you going to get water in this place?

Well, at least today,

this is your lucky day.

You're just in time for a Public Service announcement--

"THE OFFICIAL PRAYER FOR RAIN WILL TAKE PLACE

 ON SEPTEMBER 30, AT 10 AM.

CHECK YOUR LOCAL (ISRAEL) SYNAGOGUE FOR EXACT TIMES".

So -- mark the date--September 30.

10 am in the  morning.

Not before.

Not after.

You do this right, Shloimy, and we'll be okay.

Got that?


Waiting for ra.......I mean, water,

Tuvia