When the clouds start to darken we know its about to rain and we just dread being away from the house.

Especially on a Monday's the day is already long and blue then the rain decides to drop heavy.

Here are the things that just make us curse at every drop.

1. Umbrella prices shoot up!

This is actually the first thing that happens. Hawkers come from nowhere and they take advantage of our desperation so they hike the prices seriously! What do we do other than buy them? We need them now that papers bags are out of the picture.

2. Fare Hiking!

This is the worst. The first thing that comes to your mind is fare from fifty to soh zii! Mind you its that time of the month where pesa onge!

3. Traffic

Kenyan's actually call it traf**k well because it is just so annoying sitting in traffic and you're already so annoyed that you've paid more than you usually pay and the tout has insisted 'madam ni soh!'.

4. That one guy who insists the window must be opened

To be honest, where do these guys come from? It's heavily raining but this guy expects you to open the window because he feels hot and stuffy. To make it worse these guys are always the ones sitting away from the window!

You can now imagine, you've been forced to pay 50 bob extra and then the is massive traffic then this guy asks you open the window ati its stuffy. And it is raining. Jesooosss!

5. Floods

This is probably the most annoying one. You just wish you had a car at this point. The funny thing is, it only happens in the suburbs. Wasee wa ghetto cant relate! For them, it's time for what we call dufo mpararo! Which means swimming in the river now that its full of rainwater.

6. Splashing Bodaboda's

To be honest I can deal with the rest but this one kills my vibe completely. On a normal day, bodaboda's get on the nerves of both pedestrians and drivers as they are always zooming past everyone. On the wrong side of the road. Ni kama barabara ni za nyanya zao. Going to work in the morning on a rainy day becomes a struggle around them.

These guys are always in a hurry to rush one customer to a destination and pick the next one. He never bothers looking left or right so your whole outfit is ruined with just one ignorant okada man and the muddy waters of the Nairobi rain.

7. The Mkokotei guy creates an expensive bridge.

So you know when you evade the floods, you then have to contend with the mad everywhere. For you to avoid dipping your expensive shoes in mad, there is this guy who always uses his cart as a bridge. He comes through when you want to move from point A to B. But how these guys just con us and we just move with the plan I don't know. He will charge you over 50 bob to just cross a distance that is 100 meters yet that's the same price you paid from home to the CBD.

They may be small problems by they sure as hell are annoying!