Not a figment of my imagination

No!
The commute was really this good. 
Met Eireann did not lie, with their yellow rain warning. The precipitation was heavy, and sustained. Oh, so sustained. A pure delight. 

I couldn't feel my fingers by the time I got to the Repair Factory. Sensation slowly came back in my digits while in the hot shower. One of rather intense pain (when you don't know if your hands are burning from the cold-that-feels-like-a-burn or from the hot water of the shower - that hot-that-feels-like-a-burn, but burnier).