More Ado About Umbrellas

So I had a mini-rant about umbrellas yesterday, which prompted Carly to leave this comment:

Okay, so here is my umbrella anxiety… You get out of the car and are carrying your umbrella because it isn’t raining, but feels like it is going to start any second. Then, as you are walking, it starts the faintest of light drizzle, and you think, I would look like an idiot if I use my umbrella for this, so you continue walking, carrying the unopened umbrella. Then there is an ever so slight steady increase in the rain, and you are thinking, “Should I open my umbrella now? If I had gotten out of my car and this was the rain level, I most likely would have opened my umbrella, but this is not so heavy as to clearly need a shield, and I was walking in rain almost as heavy as this without the need of coverage….” It’s the umbrella threshold. It gets blurred… Or maybe it’s just me.

I'm posting it here only because I do the exact same thing. Seriously- I follow the same thought process and everything. So it's not just you! This is very similar to my standard umbrella issue, which is that I carry it, but just plain never use it. In college, I would leave the house with it, but it would be totally in the gray area for rain. It never rained hard enough to validate the trouble of using the umbrella, and yet when I got to class I would be wet enough that I wished I had opened it up. I never learned- the next time I would do the exact same thing, knowing full well that I was going to regret it later.

In other news, you have to try this little internet game. My high score is 236,660.

Update: 637,900. Boo-yah!