Is this enough?

Aside from potentially painful student experiments, the other thing I like about living in a college town is that every time you say something like, “gah, will this rain ever stop?!” people around you are liable to respond, “tut, tut, we need this rain” or “this town has been in a major drought for 3 years running”. I don’t know where they get their information – probably at the same website most know-it-alls visit – but everyone around them usually nods and I end up muttering, “Well, right I know, I just meant, like, hopefully it’ll slow down once all plant life is properly nourished.” As if I want all the flowers to shrivel up and die of thirst or the pools in the neighborhood to close, “Sorry, pool closed - all out of water”. Blacksburg has evidently been in a drought since I showed up 7 years ago but I think this year there is some hope. Either way I’m keeping my mouth shut.