Rain rain go away

It's been raining now in Jhb for weeks, we are full up, completely saturated and had enough. It rained the whole day today and doesn't look like it's letting up any time soon. It's making people grumpy and making them drive worse than usual. I am going to go on about my most favourite topic - how much I loath Joburg and the people here. What do I start with - the lack of intelligence, the superficiallity, the constant chasing after money so they can get a bigger car/house/flat screen TV or just their plain stupidity. I take my dog for a walk every afternoon when I get home from work. I moved to a new smaller more compact townhouse in December - downscaled in esence - unheard of in Jhb as it always has to be bigger and better. Very few people in my area actually leave their houses - I see one African lady exercising by fast walking with her kids and another couple who occasionally take a stoll together. I alway make a point of greeting anyone I meet to encourage a bit of community spirit. Call it an experiment on my part to see if people will get friendlier, greet each other and get out into the great outdoors and experience a brisk stroll instead of getting home and couch potatoing down in front of the TV. I have come to the conclusion that Jhb is a society of couch potatos who are fat and unfit or only gym fit - maybe it's the pollution that is the problem. Damn it's on nice sunny days (when it stops raining) that I miss C.T. to take Sabine for a walk on the beach or up the mountain would be wonderful but I am restricted to my little suburb where we go round the block (long block - about a 2 km walk in all) but it's so boring - I know all the gaurds at the complexes and it's one high electric fenced wall after the next with the occasional building site. The roads are really bad too with all the trucks, building and rain lots of potholes develop and some of the roads are pitted. And people drive like idiots - screaming along quite roads for no other reason than it's eampty except for me and my dog. It's so dangerous the way they scream along and so uneccessary. I often let Sabine off the lead to play and jump around in the long grass but call her back when I see a car - so when I see these idiots screaming along at high speed I feel like kicking their butts and often wish to see them blow out tyres on the potholes for their stupidity. I have noticed something else about the 'community' where I live, nobody looks or notices their surroundings once they are in their cars. They don't look at pedestrians or people walking buy, it makes me wonder how much they notice or care about what is going on around them. By taking long walks around by area I am getting to know it. I feel safe because Sabine is a particularly viscious looking dobermann so nobody is gonna mess with me or bother us but I try to be friendly never-the-less. I feel sorry for the people in Jhb who live such isolated lives and who know so little about other people around them or their area. People seem to spend their lives in their car's, at work and in malls. Give me the open skies, fresh air and less developments any day.