My Rain Story

So as many of you have probably experienced yesterday, how the weather took the Melbournians by surprise, and as with any surprising event, there are always stories to be told, some good, some breath taking and some boring to the sense that you wish stick a fork in your eye, I believe that this one will remind you of the old saying “good things happen to good people”.

I was on my way to play my first game of Squash with my brother Yousef at the Hawthorn Club on Glenferrie Rd, I was quite excited about it actually, on the way we noticed small hail falling, I was actually quite pleased at first, but moments later we were hiding under... well basically anything we can find while we look for the next covered point on the way.

As we swiftly ran across Burwood Rd/Glenferrie, we came along a small entrance in which a 4-member family including 2 babies where taking shelter, so we politely squizzed in for about 7 mins, before we built up the courage to jump to the next store entrance, and again there we were sharing limited space with 2 other guys.

At this point both me and my brother are soaking wet, and just as I was pulling out my phone to check that it is still on, I notice a girl about 100m away trying to pack a few banners and chairs back in the café, so me and my brother – being the brave ones that we are - went over there and helped her out to pack up under the lashing anger of the hurtful balls of hail, after we finished we figured we are already wet and in the open, so we made a suicidal run to the club which was at this point just across the road – which at the time seemed like and extremely long walk-.

We walk in the Hawthorn club to find a lady whipping the floor, the ceiling was leaking hard in at least two places, so you can imagine it wasn’t the most peaceful place at time, and we actually had the nerve to say “Ummm ... we have a reservation for a squash court”, I’m pretty sure the lady thought that we were either kidding or just plain stupid, but she was actually pretty quite about it and said “this is really not the time, besides the indoor courts are flooded as well”.

So there we were disappointed, devastated and depressed OK maybe I’m exaggerating a bit here, but giving what we went through to get there and how wet we where at the time I was pretty upset, so to make myself feel better I suggested that we pass by the closest café, get a hot chocolate and wait till the weather eased up a bit.

We cross the road to get the café and ask them if they’re still open, and the girl (same girl we helped out) goes “yeah sure anything for you guys”, so we ordered 2 warm lovely hot chocolates, got a complimentary 2 amazing pieces of chocolate cake as well as two delicious donuts to take away, they would even let us pay for the hot chocolates, I really felt that was way too much of a thank you, but it definitely made my entire weekend.

As soon as the rain calmed down, we bought a few things and made small feast back at home, which was almost a perfect end to a very refreshing day.

Btw if anyone is interested the Café is called Table talk café and its Glenferrie rd just opposite the Hawthorn Club