Y’know, as a Welshman you think I’d be used to rain by now. It practically rains every other day, if we’re lucky. At this point it’s more of a minor inconvenience more than anything because it happens so often, yet I still find a reason to complain about it sometimes.

 

My shoes are too wet.

I’m going to get a cold!

I got splashed by a damn car!

This time though, I’m complaining about something different. Y’know what sucks about rain? People carrying umbrellas. Not only is it irritating to be struck by one that is waving about on a particularly windy day, it is incredibly annoying to be stuck behind a person walking on a narrow street who is holding one. Usually I can just walk past someone with no problem, but if they’re holding an umbrella it’s a different story. I can’t go left because the umbrella’s in the way. I can’t go right because the umbrella’s in the way. I can’t go over or under because I’ll probably get arrested. The best thing I could do is politely ask them to shift their ass so I can pass but how do I know they’ll take it well? I may as well just walk equally as slow behind them and cause an equal amount of displeasure to the person who might be walking behind me. If I must suffer, then so must you. Life’s cruel.


TL;DR fuck umbrellas

Yeah fuck them for trying to keep dry

They can keep dry in the middle of the road if they have to, I got places to be damnit.

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I am the Rain King

Dude you're a pussy

lmao what a piece of shit

just because you're some weirdo who doesn't take measures to stay dry in the rain doesn't mean everyone is

Just wear a hood it's easy

why is it so incomprehensible that people want to remain 100% dry

It is when there are less bulky and more effective solutions. Umbrellas are useless in:

-Winds
-"horizontal" rain

Both of which are almost always occurring in Wales (Cardiff is well known to be an umbrella graveyard). Feck off with that 100% dry bullshit.

Cloaks > Umbrellas

"excuse me"

problem solved

i mean, i don't really get it

if you need to get past them, i don't understand why you'd get arrested just for trying to cut under someone's umbrella

it's not really that big of a deal--if they're honestly gutted about it, they can go fuck themselves

people use umbrellas unironically ?

Most old people do.

I mean a lot of them have that turquoise hoodie thing that every old person here seems to own, but they use umbrellas too.