Wrap-Up

So, Mother Nature did the unthinkable (and did it rather sneakily at that). Ezekiel and I arrived at the Troubadour a few hours early so we decided we'd park and get some nourishment. We stepped out of my truck and decided that, despite the ominous low-hanging black clouds above, it didn't seem like it would really rain, so we left the umbrella there. We walked about a block before it started raining and by the next block we were being drenched by the torrential downpour of some kind of devilish storm. We laughed at how moronic we must have looked walking down Santa Monica Blvd in the pouring rain with no umbrellas. We also laughed at how we would look even more moronic if people knew we had an umbrella but opted to leave it in my truck, nice and dry. We finally came to a Pavilions. We thought Pavilions would have to have umbrellas. We were wrong. So, we went back out into the virtual car wash outside and kept walking towards the restaurants. Our saving grace came in the form of Marvin's Pharmacy. Yes, Marvin sells umbrellas. He sells umbrellas with all kinds of decorations on them and umbrellas in a myriad of sizes and shapes. Ezekiel and I each opted for the traditional black pop-out umbrella. How nice. Probably the best $10 I've ever spent. Anyway, we then made our way to the restaurant, ate, and went back to the Troubadour. When we got there we still had over an hour until doors opened and no one was in line yet, so we went back to my truck and turned the heater on in hopes of drying out. We did, sort of, and then went back to the Troubadour with about an hour left. It finally stopped raining, scaling back to a light mist, but we decided to keep our umbrellas with us as insurance. We got to the corner where the line starts and waited for the doors to open. As people showed up at the door trying to find out where the line started, we were the landmarks (read: crazy guys) helping guide people in the right direction, holding our umbrellas in the sky, when there was no rain coming down. So, in summary, we started out as the crazy guys with no umbrellas when it was pouring, and ended up as the crazy guys with the umbrellas proudly deployed when it was not.

Oh Murphy, you and you're Law are rat bastards.