I don’t need an umbrella

[u/PickKali]

[u/thwonkk]

The way the wind has been would just make me fly away like Mary Poppins

[u/mahonia_pinnata → u/thwonkk]

yeah, I think the last frame should be them taking out an umbrella and it immediately inverting or attempting to wrangle it in the wind.

[u/Real_FakeName]

That's tourist talk

[u/SecretAgentVampire → u/Real_FakeName]

The simply endure the rain. I was born in it.

[u/NSAWallSTREET → u/SecretAgentVampire]

become one with the rain. it is the way.

[u/geekwonk]

ok but the umbrella would get in the way of curling up in a ball in the rain

[u/Quick-Math-9438 → u/geekwonk]

If only it would go back to the similar amount of rain I actually moved from the SF Bay to Cascadia for 30 yrs ago. There’s no rain here now ( at least least not in the willamette valley part) comparatively.

[u/doctor78hopscotch44]

But it’s a hoodie not a rain jacket and it’s me right now….🤣

[u/russellmzauner → u/doctor78hopscotch44]

I know what an umbrella is but what's a rain jacket?

[u/russellmzauner]

bro's not even wearing shorts lol

typical spring wear is hoodie, cargo shorts, probably longer socks left over from wearing shorts in winter, boots or tennies

and one of those white stag life preservers from back to the future

and a flannel tied around your waist

it's not that people don't want to use an umbrella

it's just that they stop buying them after the 15th one is destroyed after seven whole seconds in a horizontal downpour or lasts maybe ten minutes in a gentle rain which is invariably interrupted by a random 30MPH gust of wind that will either gank one or more spines of your umbrella or just take it off into the trees

occurs to me this is probably also a reason why we don't buy a lot of fancy hats lol

EDIT: that and probably the owls too (Salem especially has a hostile owl problem) the owls hate the hats for some reason

[u/standardatheist]

I don't get it you don't need an umbrella.

[u/NSAWallSTREET]

don't see the problem here

[u/DrLuciferZ]

I will say the past 2-3 years I think about getting an umbrella. The rain (at least in Western Washington) hasn't been like what it was before.

And then I remember wind is a thing and I just give up going outside instead.

[u/Sea-Examination2010]

I don’t need one.

[u/metacholia]

I will happily walk around PNW with an umbrella. IDK where that trope comes from, I see plenty of umbrella-wielders when it's rainy. They even leave free-to-use umbrellas out at some shopping centers where I live.

[u/Confident_Sir9312 → u/metacholia]

It's definitely a thing, at least on the coast. The only people I ever see use umbrellas are tourists and transplants. I've had convos with other locals about this and "I had one growing up, then it broke, and I never used one again" is pretty common.