Rocket Rule #5

If you Can't Swim, Stay out of the Water

Minor scare yesterday. The rocket went to a local 1812 war reenactment, which happened to be in some very heavy driving rain. Now, the reenactment went well enough, considering that the 1812 war never even remotely touched the west coast of Canada. So we all got together in Fort Langley and traded the fur trapping stories of our ancestors as if they were our own. Anyways, in the midst of this thrilling reenactment, I managed to leave my precious blackberry in the rain. This was the scare. The blackberry wouldn't start. It wouldn't even blink at me. Bad news indeed, since I've been waiting on a call from a few movie producers regarding my recently finished screenplay. Yes, I finished a screenplay, and no, I won't be posting it on here for all the internet copyright infringers to rip off and make a fortune from my work. Also, I don't have time for all my readers' well meaning but unnerving grammatical and spelling corrections.

At any rate, my blackberry was suffering from a severe case of wetness. And here I thought blackberries thrived with a little watering. That was a pun. If you didn't get it, I don't have time to explain it. I brought it home and put it by my heater overnight. And in the morning, huzzah! It turned on and beeped and got emails and everything. But this little scare led me to thinking. Sometimes in life, people want to rain on your parade. Hard, driving rain that soaks you to the core while you're trying to explain to your peers how you tore apart a bobcat with your bare hands because it was trying to eat your beaver pelts. They try to throw insults at you like, "Hey Rocket, you'll never get off the ground," or "Hey Rocket, your girlfriend called, she says she doesn't exist!" Never listen to these people! If you can't handle opposition, you're probably not cut out to be a successologist. Or even successful. Even regular people get rained on sometimes. Us successful people just seem to face it more often.

So if you can't swim, stay out of the water. Go be a professional video game player, or some kind of hermit. For the rest of you, be ready for the rain.