I Like Getting Caught in the Rain, Too!

So when we were praying for moisture, maybe we should have been more specific. Not that I am not grateful for the snow, I'm just not that enthusiastic about it. No one who took four hours last night trying to get home would be enthusiastic. Yes, that's right. Four (4) hours. The first three hours I travelled a total of 3 miles. I got on the freeway at the Lehi High entrance (since I work there) around 5:00, and reached the second Lehi exit (by the brick plant) around 8:00. At that point, I should have gotten off the freeway and gone to my parents' house to spend the night, but I figured I was already in it for three hours, I might as well go the whole way. Besides, I missed my sweetheart.

The good thing about this episode is that it introduced to me to my new favorite cheesy song: "Escape (the Pina Colada Song)." It's a crack up! Before I begin explaining why this is my new favorite song, I feel I need to let everyone know how this came to be.

The other day, I was making a CD to be used during my Sophomore English class (we were talking about the different emotions that cause people to do things they do by looking at songs), and since most of the songs were on other CDs, I had to bring my carrier upstairs, and alas, I have yet to take it back down to the car.

Around Christmas, Joe gave me a CD that I have been wanting for a while: "Let Your Love Flow", a collection of exceptionally cheesy and sentimental songs compiled by Target (I think it's still there. It has great hits like "Let Your Love Flow," and "When I Need You." It's very Delilah-on-Kosy-esque). This is the CD that so happened to be in the player at that time. Since the radio was playing lots of commercials and heavy music, and my CD case was still safe and warm in my house, I listened to "Let Your Love Flow" through around three to four times.

The funny part was that Joe called me once an hour to find out where I was (to make fun of me...not to check if I was okay), and everytime he called, the Pina Colada song was on. So I would sing it to him. A couple of times, he put me on speaker phone so his boss could hear my version of Pina Coloda, which sounded something like this: "If you like pina colada, and getting caught in the rain, blah whe er lady er.....midnight....eh flres..." (I didn't know the words, but that has never stopped me before, and it never will.)

Now, I am sure most of you know what song I am talking about, but you are not aware of the lyrics. Let me tell you, this story/song is GENIUS!

"I was tired of my lady

we'd been together too long

like a worn out recording

of our favorite song

So while she lay there sleeping

I read the paper in bed

and in the personal columns,

there was this letter that said..."

Now, let's talk about this before I move on. I LOVE that the singer says, "I was tired of my lady." I think it's really hilarious for some reason. I mean who comes right out and says, "I was tired of my lady?" Who says "lady"? And who reads the paper in bed? It makes your hands black. Obviously, this singer is a man amongst men. I also like how he refers to his significant other as a "worn out recording". Such romance! I've got news to you, pal. She doesn't want you, either.

"If you like Pina Colada

and getting caught in the rain.

If you're not into yoga

If you have half a brain

if you like making love at midnight

at the dunes on the Cape

I'm the love that you'd looked for

Write to me and escape..."

So picture this: this guy, not entirely satisfied with his relationship sees this personal add while his significant other is sleeping. He reads it, and thinks, hey, this isn't weird at all! This person likes to drink, stay out late with a cape, wants someone who has only half a brain, and is willing to meet someone who would answer a personal add! There is no way this person (who just wants someone who doesn't like yoga) is not mentally competent! Great idea! (Funny side note: It was about two hours until I figured out that the lyric was "if you like making love at midnight in the dunes on the Cape." The first few times I seranaded Joe on the phone I sang, "if you like making love at midnight with the dude on the cake." Way off, Sampsonite. But, it makes sense if you think about it metaphorically). The picture in my head last night was too classic. Like this would ever be a good idea!

"I didn't think about my lady

I know that sounds kind of mean

but me and my old lady

have fallen into the same old dull routine

so I wrote to the paper

took out a personal add

and though I'm nobody's poet

I thought it wasn't half bad

Yes, I like pina coladas

and getting caught in the rain

I'm not much into health food

I am into champagne

I've got to meet you by tomoorow noon

and cut through all this red tape

at a bar called O'Mally's

where we'll plan our escape..."

Okay. First off, I think it's hilarious that he says, "though I'm nobody's poet, I thought it wasn't half bad." Yeah. He copied her! He's a regular Lord Byron. And then, what about the part in her ad that said "if you have half a brain." What is he admitting about his intelligence level by answering with his 'orginial' response? Hmmmmm.

"So I waitied with high hopes

and she walked in the place

I knew her smile in an instant

I knew the curve of her face.

It was my own lovly lady (sure, now she's lovely, not old)

And she said, 'oh, it's you..."

I don't know about you, but if I were so desperate to get away from this guy that I was willing to run away with someone with only half a brain that answered a personal, only to find that the idiot was the answer to my ad, first of all, I would be very upset that he had been reading the personals behind my back, and even answered a personal behind my back. Most of all, I would be really put out. I probably would say, "Oh. it's you," too. The funny thing is, he doesn't realize that this probably isn't the best reaction he could have had.

"Then we laughed for a moment

and I said, I never knew

That you like pina coladas

and getting caught in the rain

and feel of the ocean

and the taste of champagne

if you like making love at midnight

in the dunes on the Cape (or with the dude on the cake, whatever...)

you're the lady I've looked for

come with me and Escape..."

Hold the phone, folks! Wasn't he going to cheat on her? Wasn't she going to cheat on him? But they both like pina coladas. So the world is right, and they will for sure never fall back into being like "a worn out recroding." All because of a pina colada. Those crazy kids! So I think this song is hilarious in a really twisted sort of way. It gave me great joy last night for about four hours, anyway.

And it gave Joe joy when I sang it to him.

The first four or five times, anyway.

Not so much the last three.

He didn't really appreciate me texting him the lyrics, either.