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It's pouring in Austin. So, the question becomes...

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by BrianKagy, Mar 27, 2001.

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  1. mrpaige

    mrpaige Member

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    I grew up in Amarillo where it usually rains only one day a year, so it never occurred to me to purchase an umbrella.

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  2. mc mark

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    I see Brian is feeling better!

    I think owning an umbrella really depends on where you live.

    If you live in a city (say New York), where you do a lot of walking, an umbrella is standard.

    Whereas if you live in a city where cars are the major mode of transportation, then umbrellas aren't thought about too much.


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    #22 mc mark, Mar 27, 2001
  3. JuanValdez

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    That Austin rain must have come to Houston. Now I've got to walk 300 yards to get to my car in the back of the parking lot and I don't have an umbrella! [​IMG]

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    #23 JuanValdez, Mar 27, 2001
  4. Jeff

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    Whoa there, mister! Them's fightin' words. Lemme just put my baseball cap on forwards and we'll take this outside. [​IMG]

    <font size=-4>The truth is that I wear a backwards baseball cap and usually shorts every day of my life. Oh, well. </font> [​IMG]

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  5. keeley

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    Thankfully I read the entire thread before posting - Juan states the Chicago issue perfectly.

    I go with a Nautica pullover in the rain. In fact, when I bought it, the Marshall Field's clerk asked me if I owned a boat. Now, I wasn't smoking a fat cigar and wearing expensive jewelry and dressed to the nines, so that made me chuckle.

    Sometimes, I do wear my cap backwards - though usually when I am doing so, I have completely forgotten that I have it that way, and turn it right back around. I used to wear it backwards all the time a looooong time ago, but I'm not that age anymore. Besides, with it pulled forward, much more of my hideous mug is covered up.

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    #25 keeley, Mar 27, 2001
  6. BrianKagy

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    1) Jeff, you work at home, don't you? YOu set your own dress code. That's a little different than what I'm getting at.

    2) Pullovers are practical for not getting your head rained on, I guess... but what happens to your pants and shoes?
     
    #26 BrianKagy, Mar 27, 2001
  7. JettaKnight

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    BK, your shoes get wet even if you have an umbrella. Ground is wet, therefore it is inevitable that the shoes get wet, too.

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    #27 JettaKnight, Mar 27, 2001
  8. Jeff

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    Actually, I wore that at all my jobs including my office jobs before this. I knew what you were saying. I was just ribbin' ya. [​IMG]

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  9. Drewdog

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    I dont think its that bad today. Like many have already said.....

    Its more of a pain in the ass to get in and out of your car.

    You look like a tool carrying it around everywhere.

    Your umbrella is always where you need it the least.

    If it's the least bit windy, the umbrella isnt going to help at all.

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    #29 Drewdog, Mar 27, 2001
  10. BrianKagy

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    Frankly, I think sopping wet people at places of employment look more like tools than those of us who are bone-dry and carrying an umbrella.
     
    #30 BrianKagy, Mar 27, 2001
  11. The Voice of Reason

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    Hay Brian, LATCH ON!!

    you can get off your high horse any time now. Im sure that as the supreme example of what twenty something corporate hacks should aspire to it must be tireing. please get off that horse and come back to the real world, relax a bit.
    You can assume anything you may want about me or any of the other non Umbrella users of the world, It is your right. However, it would than Also be your right to be an ignorant pompass a$$. You can slight me for alot of things, I am human. but to call all of the non umbrella users idiots, or morons is just plain silly. I in return have no problem calling you a wuss. not to defend my extreme "manly" nature, but to point out the complete lack of openess you cling to. Not everyone is up 2 hours before work. Not everyone gets dressed in designer clothes/suits to head off to work. Not everyone gets to work early enough to park close to the building. not everyone remembers their lunch let alone their umbrella. not everyone works in an office. not everyone thinks they are superior looking down on the poor wilting masses running from their cars in the rain.
    this world is filled with lots of different types of people. THANK GOD!!! and thank god they do not all wake at 5 am to don their 3 peice suit, and head to the large corporate office building. you can have your life, please keep it, because the people like Jeff, and Smegg, and oddly enough LHutz (sorry Jeff for including you with these nuts [​IMG]) are the ones that make this word interesting.

    Since I dont even own a hat, often wear a suit, or "dress clothes", am 26 and it is sunny here in NY, I will take my time wandering around in yesterdays fresh snow enjoying the sunlight dripping on my unprotected head.

    It sounds like your job stresses you out a bit, maybe you should trade in your business suit for a bathing suit, and go on vacation. Somewhere it dosnt rain of course.

    PEACE [​IMG]

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    #31 The Voice of Reason, Mar 27, 2001
  12. Drewdog

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    Well Im pretty sure if you walked into the place where you were employed, and it was raining outside, they would understand if you were wet.

    That is unless of course you have a boss that is a d#$k....and expects you to be completely dry.

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  13. Drewdog

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    EXCELLENT POST VOR....

    Right on the money!!!!!
     
    #33 Drewdog, Mar 27, 2001
  14. BrianKagy

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    One of the earliest phrases you learn from your mother is, "He didn't have enough sense to come out of the rain."

    A corollary to that would be, "He didn't have enough sense to cover himself when it was raining."

    Either way, most of us figure that part of life out by the time we're seven.

    I am sorry if I have hurt your sense of individuality by challenging you to, of all things, carry an umbrella when it rains. I am glad you have forged this wild individualistic spirit based on your willingness to endure a drenching, your steadfast refusal to submit to the ignominy of carrying an umbrella. You, like Sprite drinkers and Gap shoppers, are truly an iconoclast who has risen above us poor, dry suckers.

    Personally, when I see people without an umbrella on a rainy day, I don't do a lot of soul-searching to figure out why I've allowed myself to be suckered by corporate America, why I've allowed myself to be duped by those who would have us make that small effort to remain dry getting to or from our cars, or how the fact that I carry an umbrella is evidence that I have not reached the regime sartori of consciousness that it evidently takes to walk around soaked.

    I think the wet people are morons. I laugh, and keep walking.

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    #34 BrianKagy, Mar 27, 2001
  15. mr_oily

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    It hurts my Cacti and Agave plants too...
    Too much rain=root rot
    I HATE ROOT ROT! [​IMG]


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  16. The Voice of Reason

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    #36 The Voice of Reason, Mar 27, 2001
  17. Drewdog

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    Pardon me Brian.......

    Do you have any Grey Pupon?
     
    #37 Drewdog, Mar 27, 2001
  18. Band Geek Mobster

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    Here's help for the ppl like me that have no clue what the following words mean.

    I use an umbrella, yet I still feel like a moron. [​IMG]

    ignominy

    iconoclast

    Don't ask me about that sartori stuff.

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    #38 Band Geek Mobster, Mar 27, 2001
  19. Turbo

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    Honestly, I would rather see someone walking in the rain with no cover rather then seeing someone make a futile attempt at covering themselves.

    Case-in-point: I was walking to class earlier today while it was pouring down rain and I passed a young woman holding nothing more than a paper plate over her head. Why even bother? The plate was completly soaked and she wasn't doing herself any good by holding it over her head. It really makes you wonder about some people.

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    #39 Turbo, Mar 27, 2001
  20. Jeff

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    A post filled with arguments over whether or not we should use an umbrella. BK, you sure know how to start a riot! [​IMG]

    As for the "have enough sense to come in out of the rain," my mom actually encouraged me to play in the rain. Some of the best fishing I ever did as a kid was in the rain. My friends and I used to find crawdads in our ditches and put them in the bayou when it was raining. Rain was FUN.

    It is VERY annoying, however, when you don't want to be wet which is a good reason for an umbrella if you want one. I used one today after several attempts to run from my house to my detached office left me soaking. Time for a covered walkway?

    I guess this is just a subjective argument between those who believe that they don't deserve to be called morons for choosing to get wet in the rain and those who think people ARE morons for walking in the rain and getting wet. C'est la vie! <---- that's French! Ain't I continental? [​IMG]

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