people in this city are idiots when it comes to rain. i was walking home yesterday and i kept passing people with umbrellas over their heads. it wasn't raining. not even a little. it had rained earlier but i'm sure had the rain started up again, these people would have had plenty of time to get their umbrellas open before they melted, which is what they must believe would have happened if they got wet. (having grown up in Oregon, i can assure you that rain does not burn, cause small pox, or make you melt.) i won't even begin to mention the atrocious driving skills my fellow city dwellers employ when it starts to rain.

the worst kind of idiot is the one who walks around with her umbrella open, even though it's not raining, and is completely oblivious to the size of this new appendage (or is maybe just super inconsiderate.) i was walking through a narrow pass-through last night that was barely wide enough for two people to squeeze by each other. it was also covered. this girl walked towards me with her rather large umbrella open (again, this was a covered pass-through) and proceeded to clock me in the head with it. it would have been awfully commonly courteous of her to close it, move it aside, or make some small gesture to avoid poking my eye out. especially since, goddamnit, IT WASN'T RAINING AND WE WERE IN A COVERED WALKWAY!

i swear to god, you're all idiots in this city when it comes to rain. every last one of you.