Or should that be snow, snow… or bad weather, bad weather… in your own case? It rained last Sunday and so my family and I could not stroll down to Church.

That was just the inspiration for this post and has nothing to do with the subject matter at hand. The forces of Nature are simply too overpowering in their awesomeness.

Does anyone really hate rainfall? I mean it is understandable that children may be taught to sing hopeful rhymes that children can easily personalize by exchanging their own names for the word "children", such as:

Rain, rain, go away

Rain, rain, go away

Come again another day

Little children want to play.

However, we all know that without rainfall all the entire components of the human food chain would be starved to death and even the worldwide interdependent ecological arrangements would collapse and fall out of existence.

So, how do we spend the wet and rained out days of our lives and what do we usually do to pass the time or weather the storm?

Of course, “Singing In The Rain” is still a celebrated classic movie, while Rihanna’s “Umbrella” song is a deservedly award-winning modern classic of a music video,

That may be how international celebrities celebrate rainfall but what about the rest of us celebrities-at-home?

Of course, there are still some parts of the world where young children take a bath in the open when it rains, their rural-dwelling parents oblivious to the potential danger of a sudden lightning strike that could accompany such inclement weather.

Meanwhile, back in the more developed parts of the world, some city slickers have been known to take their cars out for a spin in the rain and gain an impromptu bargain car wash in the process as a bonus.

Even though rain is important to municipal areas because of the growing of food on farms and the replenishment of underground aquifers supplying tap water treatment plants, I am more interested in the games people play indoors when it is raining outside.

Other than tumbling around in bed, playing parlor games, or just sitting cooped up around a fire, what really goes on behind the closed doors.

I am not nosy, just curious; there is a difference because you will be telling me and not me finding out on my own.

I would like to know what most people actually when it is raining cats and dogs or elephants and tigers – those times when the roof-pounding rain drowns out other sounds and makes any type of aural or audio communication impossible while it lasts.

Do you do anything interesting during bad weather?

UPDATE - Friday, June 6, 2008:

Well, since comments are seemingly not forthcoming presenyly, the following are a few suggestions about what can be done indoors during bad weather, or when it is not advisable to venture outside:

Humorous press conference by a Senator on the Australian government's new policy to protect children from the harmful effects of the rain and other bad weather by building arts centres in Tasmania...

Tackling activity barriers due to bad weather by walking, swimming, bowling...