I may or may not have just ruined the Fourth of July for my entire city due to one intrusive thought.
So. July 4th. Park near my apartment decides to have fireworks. For context, I'm autistic and VERY sensitive to loud noises because of that. So when the fireworks nearby began I scowled, annoyed, and threw on a pair of headphones.
I then think something to myself. A small intrusive thought that I verbally say to myself as I'm scrolling through my playlist of music:
'Imagine if there was a horrific downpour right now that'd be so fucking funny'.
Mostly joking of course. I smile to myself. As if that'd happen, there wasn't any rain in the forecast.
Then, ten minutes later I begin to hear distant thunder.
And then the windows flash. Not with far of rainbow colors but the white glare of lightning.
At last, the rain began. And when I say it rain I mean it was a fucking deluge. A downpour. Forget just cats and dogs, it's raining every goddamn household pet and farm animal out there.
In an instant the fireworks stop. Loud ass explosions are now replaced with even louder thunder and lighting as Poseidon himself unleashes his full fury upon my sorry state of a city. I walked to my screen door and look down to see the roads now piled up in a crawling traffic jam as everyone who was at the park for the fireworks attempts to escape.
I check my phone. The chance of rain was only 15%. Then in real time the weather app updates this from 15% to 100%. The traffic below is only getting worse. Mass panic and hysteria. As a reminder, I'm sensitive to loud noises too, so this is no victory for me. In fact, this is even worse than where I started.
And now I'm here chronicling this horrific event that will go down in history to families as the worst Fourth of July to ever occur, both impressed and horrified at my seemingly untapped superpower to ruin holidays with a single intrusive thought.
Also I probably owe Poseidon a favor. Fuck.