Rain delay

Last week, I presented the idea of a community bank to a neighborhood association in town.

About 35 people said they were interested and planned on attending the next meeting.

I showed up at the meeting on time and waited a half hour.

No one showed.

It had been steadily raining all day. And even though most of the participants live within a block of where the meeting was going to held, not a single person came by.

After waiting for a half-hour, I went to the president of the community to see what was going on. He said everyone in the area was excited about the meeting, but that no one will leave their house in the rain.

The popular notion around these parts is that if you go out in the rain, even for the shortest amount of time, you will come down with the flu.

We rescheduled for the next Saturday. Hopefully, it doesn't rain.