You just made it home in one of the worst thunderstorms you can remember. But then, in the fury of thundering cannons and crackling flashes of lightning each is the worst until you've safely reached home. You are drenched from the run to the parking lot and have shivered all the drive home.

You change out of your wet clothes into your bathrobe--it's late enough now. Your wet clothes are thrown over a line in the laundry room down in the cellar to dry.