What are you doing out in this spell? What spell?

Today we had to stop by our old place to see our former 82 year old neighbor, Betty. She was planning to come over and visit with us, but in the moving chaos I lost her number. It was overcast day, raining on and off, but when I pulled into our old complex it was just sprinkling. I left the boys in the car and ran in just to get her number. Betty, came to the door and after we chatted about the number, she looked at me a bit concerned and said

"what are you doing out in this spell?" This instantly sparked a flashback for me.

Rebecca and I are in Europe, and we traveled to a little island. Well, I wanted to rent bikes to see the sights. Rebecca was against the idea, but agreed. We were pretty far along on our gorgeous ride by the ocean, with sheep and rolling green hills when a local woman stopped us and said

"what are you doing out in this spell?"

We were like "what spell?"

Sure enough, we continued a few more miles to our goal, and took some pics before turning back. When all the sudden a big rain storm kicked up. We had to ride all the way back in the pouring rain. As you can imagine, Rebecca was less than thrilled.

I even told her to "be like Lance Armstrong" which I thought was very encouraging till a local couple in their mid-sixties passed us.

HAHA.

Just then I snapped back, and I was standing with Betty as she asked me about being out in the spell. I had the same silly response

"what spell"

She informed me that there were tornadoes north of Cedar Rapids and bad storms headed for us. I freaked out! How was I supposed to know, I don't watch local TV, I was out doing errands, I didn't hear a siren!

I said good bye to Betty, and ran to the car. It was raining harder than before and it began to pour like crazy.

I was having visions of crossing the river and seeing a huge tornado coming towards us. Seriously how do people live here!

Well, we made it home safely.

But this is a life lesson. If you ever have an older person ask you "what are you doing out in this spell?" In my experience you better head home fast.

Maybe when you are older you get intuitive thoughts about the weather, you know like dogs with earthquakes....or maybe they just watch the weather channel more:)